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- From: znpt01@trc.amoco.com (Norman P. Tracy)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Sony CDP-X111ES
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.084412@trc.amoco.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:44:12 GMT
- References: <6063@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1992Dec16.154014.980@cmkrnl.com>
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- Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
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- In article <1992Dec16.154014.980@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- > In article <6063@rosie.NeXT.COM>, Matt_Watson@NeXT.com writes:
- > > Anyone have any experience with this beast? I need a decent CD player
- > > with optical digital out, and this seems to be a contender...
- >
- > I'd look elsewhere. The stories of problems with Sony CD players, both -ES
- > and non-, are legendary.
- >
- > One non-legendary data point: I have a CDP-208ESD in my office system. It's
- > okay most of the time. But I have one disc that is scratched in such a way as
- > to cause this player to skip. (The scratch is a sort of a spiral shape,
- > neither circular nor radial.) -----------------------------------
-
- Second non-legendary data point: I have a CDP-507es which for about 5 years
- now has given me excellent sound and reliability. It just runs and runs and
- runs and runs. This in spite of the fact that I've opened it up and run all
- sorts of crazy audiophile mad scientest experments on the poor thing. It
- hasn't seen its stock op-amps in years.
-
- JEH is ready to damn all Sonys because his won't track one esp. difficult
- scratched CD. In fact he has two other Sonys that will track the disk in
- question! When it comes to tracking problem disks there are unit to unit
- variabilities, do we reject all Sonys because one of JEH's could use a little
- more gain in the servo ciricuit?
-
- I would like to advance the notion that the reason you see so many complaints
- re. Sony reliability (the stuff of net "legends") is that Sony sells so much
- product. There failure rate % could be lower than a smaller company but
- because they sell so many units it translates into a greater number of people
- with problems. And we all know somebody with a bitch is much more likely to
- post a slam than somebody who's happy as a clam will post a praise.
-
- Also keep in mind we're discussing a company here whose product range goes
- from $9.95 Wallmart headphones to million dollar plus CD mastering factories.
- Like any product you have to look at the individual unit and decide for
- your self if it has the quality you desire for the price you are willing to
- pay.
-
- Norman Tracy
- znpt01@trc.amoco.com
-