I think that maybe, the store demos (many were sold that way) got rough treatment in the store, and the part malfunctioned. Granted, perhaps some of the cds have a slightly larger diameter, and sit higher in the tray, but the solution for me was to CAREFULLY shave a bit off of the center. Apparantly, some cds have a tiny burr on the edge of the hole, and it would get caught. I removed the spindle, and looking closely a it, the center "socket" had a dent/bend in the plastic. I came to the conclusion that the part that drops down, that little spindle, (I don't know what it is called), was grazing the label side of SOME discs, and the drag was enough to pull these up the slope of the tray.
I observed the operation while the unit was open, using a bad cd, and pulling it with my hand, ect. I have had his problem on and off, and I understand that users would feel cheated that any cd player would damage discs.(more during the emergency removal, I suspect, than the getting stuck in the first place.)Īfter I got disgusted with the problem only happening on CERTAIN discs, I set about finding out why,analytically. I write this in response to the complaints about the Sony cdp-xa1es eating a lot of discs. Finally, it's sound far exceeds that of my CDP-XE500, although you would expect that difference between Sony XA and XE. These were made around 1995, so they seem to be internally pretty rugged 20 years later. All in all, I'd recommend this unit with the caution about the CD-R issues I have experienced. It's not one of those "built like a tank units," being plastic, but that's OK with me. However, for my basement system, the XA1ES is a reasonable fit. If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably consider spending a bit more money. The remote is simple and easy to use, although it neither powers on/off the player nor opens/closes the tray.įor 60 USD or less, I think it's a pretty good deal, if that's what you can afford. For all that, I like its sound better than that of the Marantz CD-5001 that it replaced, and for that matter, probably better than the audiophile Onkyo DX-7555 (if only because the XA1ES emphasizes bass more). So it's either this particular player or it's something that might happen to all XA1ESs. I know it isn't the discs themselves,because I did some tests of the problem CDs on the XA20ES, which resulted in uninterrupted playback. It seems to me like this problem exists more with computer-burned CDs than with CD-R burned ones. In the worst cases of this, I have had to hit FF to get the player to advance. On these kinds of CDs, it sometimes repeats some number of seconds of what it just played.
However, it sometimes has issues with home-recorded (Commercial CD copied to Consumer/Computer blank CD). It has played back without fault every commercial pre-recorded CD I have put in it. So far, it has eaten no discs, as some users have reported. I really have no complaints with the sound quality of the XA1ES. In any case, the player has the sound I associate with its 8505* cousins: good detail and as I noted, strong low end.
The CDP-XA1ES does not disappoint in that regard, although it has something called an "Advanced Pulse DAC." This might be some kind of hybrid pulse DAC by another name. One thing you can count on from all of them is strong bass response.important to me.
#ONKYO CD PLAYER TRAY IS JAMMED SERIES#
All of these share the common lineage of Sony's 8505 series DAC (8505, 8505AQ, 8505BQ). I also have its higher-level cousin, the CDP-XA20ES, recently was also using a CDP-XA70ES, and prior to the 70ES, had a CDP-XA7ES. The goal was to get a neutral playback, with less tape hiss than a straight copy of the analog master.īy the early 1990s, when digital mastering decks were much more common, tape hiss had become much less of an issue in mastering, and the use of pre-emphasis began to fall out of favor.I bought this XA1ES a few months ago on Ebay for 60 USD. Using an encode/decode method (somewhat similar to Dolby noise reduction) the high frequencies were boosted (emphasized) during the recording of the CD master, and then cut (de-emphasized) by the CD player. Quiet sections with very low signal levels might contain significant tape hiss on some analog masters.ĬD pre-emphasis in mastering, and de-emphasis upon playback of the finished CD, were used as a method of reducing tape hiss from the analog master. Keep in mind that many of these early projects were classical recordings, with very wide dynamics. In the early days of CD manufacture, the majority of the master tapes used were analog, such as those used for LP cutting. Sid got in while I was typing, but here is my version.
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