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Sony CDP-XA7ES CD player Review System

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Associated equipment used in this review included the Rowland Consummate preamplifier, Aragon 8008 power amplifier, and Energy Veritas v2.8 loudspeakers. Interconnects were TARA Labs RSC Reference from D/A to preamp, and Cardas Hexlink from preamp to power amp. The Energys were, ah, energized through a bi-wire set of Monster M1.5 (bi-wire) loudspeaker cables.

Products for comparison included the Audio Research CD1 CD player and the Mark Levinson No.36, connected with Kimber Cable AGDL digital cable.—Thomas J. Norton

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hollowman's picture
Submitted by hollowman on February 12, 2018 - 10:58pm

Any chance of digging into the archives and putting the Sony 779 ES cd player by J. Gordon Holt (Aug. 1993) review online?

John Atkinson's picture
Submitted by John Atkinson on February 13, 2018 - 4:24am
hollowman wrote:
Any chance of digging into the archives and putting the Sony 779 ES cd player by J. Gordon Holt (Aug. 1993) review online?

It's in the queue.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

Ortofan's picture
Submitted by Ortofan on September 11, 2020 - 1:26am

... was there a follow-up report?
https://www.stereophile.com/content/sony-cdp-x779es-cd-player

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