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Review: Sony DVP-S9000es CD Player

Category: Digital

I've wanted one of these babies for over a year. I've had other Sony ES CD players in the past and found them to be of excellent quality. Finally got my DVP-S9000es on ebay for just over $500 and could not be more pleased. My first listening session was with Diana Krall's concert DVD - Live in Paris. The sound and picture quality are just stunning. I could not hear or see any imperfections. Then I moved on to Mondo Head's KODO SACD disk and got goose bumps when I listenned to track 7 "Daraijin". Clear, clean and very dynamic playback of SACD. On regular CD's this unit does an excellent job. All my CD's sounded just as they did on most of the fine CD players I had used before, including the Meridian 596 and the Sony CDP-X777es.

I like the fact that it plays SACD's in stereo only, as I'm not a big fan of multichannel music (yet).

This unit has lots of charisma, it is very well built and beautiful to look at and does everything you ask it to do very well. The only little complaint is that it does not read CD-R's at all. Aside from that it is one of the best DVD/SACD/CD players available today; and that at a very reasonable price.

Associated gear
Linar 250W/ch power amp, Linar preamplifier-2, Dunlavy SC-III speakers, Nordost Red Dawn and Blue Heaven Cables.

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kasper
1 posts
 
i also love my 9000ES,but want to no if anyone else had the
the problem with the door not opening when you push eject on
the remote.it would start to come out,then go back in.the people at sony told me to unplug the unit then,plug backup
and try it.i got my unit new for $1100.00 & think this should not happen at this price point.also some hybrid sacds
will not play the sacd layer in this player.i also own the
999ES player,even though it's not as "massive" as the 9000 it sound just as good,without the hickups.
vita
4 posts
 
hello guy
i wondering,have anyone ever try to combine both output by using
y adapter out of dvp-s9000.Because it seem that the upper
one was more on high freguency,lower was more on low freguency,just curious?
123henry97
17 posts
 
I also own this dvp-s9000es I tried a few CD-R's they are playing fine on my CD player. It seems depending on the brand of CD-R's. The brand (Taiyo Yuden from this link: http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=R&Product_Code=1161&Category_Code=IP)I use is a little pricy but it works well.
123henry97
17 posts
 
I am sorry, I should correct the above statment that dvp-s9000es does not work on CD-R's. It works with DVD-Rs Taiyo Yuden from this link: http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=R&Category_Code=DMRTY
operanutlgb2
3 posts
 
I own 2 Sony DVP-s9000 CD Players. Both sound better than anything I've owned under a Grand on CDs. Possibly because all of my SACDs are Hybrids, the CD Layers of these sound hardly different from the SACD layers: Damned Good, in any case!
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