Does anyone have a Sony DVP-S9000ES that reads the SACE layer

Mine reads the SACD layer if it there.

They should read SACDs.   But they are getting up in years and a significant fraction now have tracking errors with SACDs.  I forgot what manual it was in but there is a setup /diagnosis screen where you can set it to automatically adjust itself to track correctly.  You should do a search and find out how successful this is.

Thanks.

There are settings on the player where it will read either the SACD layer or the CD layer of an SACD.  Make sure it is set to SACD if that is what you want