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Here's the sordid story on this CDP:
While checking with our Squamish Mini-Flea Market about a collection of car audio 8-track players about to be unpacked from storage and be put up for viewing, I began speaking with a young kid in his 20's about some gear he was about to demo. I helped him hook up the Jana integrated amplifier with a few speaker leads to some small speakers to test the amp out. I, also, hooked up a CDP to the amp with two RCA cables to use as a source component. The first set of RCA cables didn't work, or so I thought, until I later realized I had to correctly select the analog, rather than the digital button on the CDP, to get any sound output from the CDP. It turns out he wasn't interested in the amplifier at all, as it was only 185 wpc. He was looking for something in the neighborhood of about five times that in power rating. So, he left the whole works on the table. I couldn't stop staring at the CDP. I realized when moving the components around there was some serious heft to this Sony CDP, as it certainly weighed more than the Jana amplifier. Both of these units had been donated by the local bar/hotel when the hotel had changed ownership and a new sound system was installed. The OP, as it had been called, was due for a major facelift, and the new managers wanted to improve the decor and move their format beyond the regular exotic dancers on stage once a week. I'm surprised, now, there wasn't an AC/DC disc in the player when I first opened the CD tray.
This Sony X7ESD needs cosmetics badly, since it's damaged on both wood-engineered side panels and bottom of the front face plate. I find it quite endearing to hear this unit play, knowing what a hard life it must have had. If only the stories it could tell!
Nando.
While checking with our Squamish Mini-Flea Market about a collection of car audio 8-track players about to be unpacked from storage and be put up for viewing, I began speaking with a young kid in his 20's about some gear he was about to demo. I helped him hook up the Jana integrated amplifier with a few speaker leads to some small speakers to test the amp out. I, also, hooked up a CDP to the amp with two RCA cables to use as a source component. The first set of RCA cables didn't work, or so I thought, until I later realized I had to correctly select the analog, rather than the digital button on the CDP, to get any sound output from the CDP. It turns out he wasn't interested in the amplifier at all, as it was only 185 wpc. He was looking for something in the neighborhood of about five times that in power rating. So, he left the whole works on the table. I couldn't stop staring at the CDP. I realized when moving the components around there was some serious heft to this Sony CDP, as it certainly weighed more than the Jana amplifier. Both of these units had been donated by the local bar/hotel when the hotel had changed ownership and a new sound system was installed. The OP, as it had been called, was due for a major facelift, and the new managers wanted to improve the decor and move their format beyond the regular exotic dancers on stage once a week. I'm surprised, now, there wasn't an AC/DC disc in the player when I first opened the CD tray.
This Sony X7ESD needs cosmetics badly, since it's damaged on both wood-engineered side panels and bottom of the front face plate. I find it quite endearing to hear this unit play, knowing what a hard life it must have had. If only the stories it could tell!
Nando.
