[skifasterslc]

Recently My system consists an oppo 983h (music cd transport) or a toshiba blue ray player for video and streaming, mostly netflix or pandora. They feed a matrix mini i dac > musical fidelity pre > quad 12L active speakers.   I have found the oppo to sound just slightly better than the tosh 2250 as a transport. 

Lately I have been educating myself about computer audio options to store and play music files.  That has been frustrating because of all the options and when i finally decided to go to a SB touch, they stopped production (wtf).  So i just have not put together that part of my system yet.  IN the meantime I have been reading about jitter, clocks, software, hard drives, dacs etc etc. 

A few years ago I used a toshiba sd-9200 as a dvd player and cd player and really enjoyed the sound quality.  I wanted a one box solution to a combined multi channel home theater and 2 channel set up and it was awesome for that.  Then I moved and ditched the multi channel  and went 2.1 and have been very happy.  Enter HDMI so around 2008 or so I went to the oppo 983h and put the 9200 in the closet.  The 9200 is a large heavy machine, nice copper chassis,  that had a msrp of $1995 back in 2001.  Stereophile did a review and at that time they claimed it has low jitter numbers.  I started wondering how it would compare to my oppo, so I pulled it out this weekend and dusted it off. 

Well yesterday I fired it up, digital out to my dac, and HOLY CRAP, there was a substantial improvement!  The music was more relaxed and natural, more texture in all areas, detail-detail,  better sound stage and improvement in dynamics.  This was a very pleasant surprise.  I cant find jitter measurements on the oppo and I don't know if that is the issue.  With this heavy cooper clad machine there must be an improvement in RF and emi. 

I have also considered upgrading my dac, as pacific valve offer some mods here:
http://www.pacificvalve.us/MatrixBalanced.html

Then again I get torn between "modding" the equipment or upgrading to better stuff. 

Anyway, I'm enjoying the transport change, Cheers!

[Berto]

I had the same unit. Unfortunately I had reliability issues but it's built like a tank and sounded glorious (when working). Enjoy!

[Freo-1]

Yep. Does not surprise me in the least.  If you want really low jitter numbers, try the Oppo 103 or 105.  Almost non existent. 
 
I have a vintage Audio Alchemy DDS Pro transport that still works great.  It has the Pioneer Stable Platter setup. I have it connected to a MHDT Havana Balanced DAC, and the results are very nice CD playback.