I have not spotted an older Sony like these but with the magnetic drives, balanced outputs, tremendous parts...it seems like Sony put alot of effort into building a very high quality and well engineered player at the height of the CD era. If I could snag a really good x707es I might just get it and try it with a top notch DAC. BTW I have an older REGA Apollo CD player and it has a really decent sound and transport as well. It has a buffer for storage of data, that helps with the digital signal coming out correct and thus the sound as well.
Has anyone had on of these CD players? How good are they?
Are the older Sony CD players very good? Even as just a transport paired with a good/great DAC?
CDP-X7ESD. CDP-507ESD or CDP-X707ES
Your thoughts?