I also bought the 980 only for the music; but at some point I thought I would put my "LG" to rest and spare an HDMI connection (I'm all out!). I was very disapointed. Actually, I thought so far that my LG upscaler was my weakest (the other being an HD-A30), but I quickly brought it back in!
My recommendation to everyone looking for Oppo is always: if you care about the video, the 981 and such are probably worth the extra 50-100$.
Nevertheless, for audio, to have a great player sending multich and DSD through HDMI for less than 200$, the 980 is quite simply amazing. So I am very happy with the 980.
