Serious DAC question

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My Yamaha ht receiver has ESS 9006 32 bit dac in it and I use it to decode 2 channel tunes from a blu-ray player. Sounds great although the 9006 is their "low end" chip.

Their 9018 chip appears to the totl.

I would be more inclined to just get an outboard dac and use pretty much whatever cd/br player that you want, unless you're going to watch movies on the OPPO as well.

Downside is that a nice stand alone dac costs major dollars. So from that view, a $1,300 OPPO brp is a bargain. Well, almost.

Murray