Has anyone had on of these CD players? How good are they?

I still have an old Sony XA20ES that still works like new. It is in a secondary system at present, so doesn’t get used every day. It has a drawer, but the whole laser drive and table drive are in a slide out assembly. It takes a puck on top of the disk. I think the laser drive slides on a rail. Sony used to use a linear motor on those units. Not sure what is in this one though. I did lube the laser rails a few years ago. I think the above advice is spot on. Mechanical stuff does wear out.