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In Reply to: HELP: AA Review anyone of XA-9000es SONY posted by Tester on May 3, 2006 at 12:10:44:
Very nice player. I also owned the XA777es as well, which I found to be virtually identical in sound reproduction.The XA9000es is the best multichannel SACD player I've ever heard/owned. Plus it has the all-important time delay feature for your 5.1 SACDs. Redbook playback is very respectable too.
It's only shortcoming was on stereo SACDs compared to Sony SCD-1. XA9000ES sounded thinner, and more mechanical in vocal range. Not noticable by itself, but obvious in a head to head with a better player.
Beware of potential transport failures with this model. The Sony mechanisms are known for dropouts and other failures. If I had to do it again, I'd get a new Pio 59avi/79avi for under $1K and put $1K worth of mods into it. You'd have a universal player and would probably sound better than the Sony to boot.
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