cdp's you had glitches with

A glitch, how about a death. An Audio Aero prima early edition non upsampling maybe 5 years old whose transport died and cost more than player. Now a 3 year old Jolida100A whose electronics are fine but the tray slips slightly out of position. Jolida just says send it in we'll discuss rates later. My dealer pal says they only do one repair which is the replacement of the whole transport. I think I'll just put it back in place with a miniscule amount of potent adhesive and save or sell it. It sounds great when the tray is gently adjusted. As for Junk my Sony 5 cd player from the 80s would qualify for worst sounding Cd player I have endured. To think that a $40 universal kicks it's tail all over nowadays.

Too lazy to figure the exact number of players I've owned but none have failed without abuse of some type. Even the first player I bought (Technics) back in 85 is still working at my son's house.

I just want to thank Bartokfan again for bringing up a very relevant topic. I unfortunately have to concur that low manufacturing costs can yield low production quality. I really wish I hadn’t experienced this first hand. Everyone knows that just a few vendors make the drives and a few other parts particularly for CDs now that DVD drives are the dominant data drive. The more components I see the more I’m starting to realize that professional assembly and quality control are very important and seem to have nothing to do with price. Talking to people in the business (those that are willing to talk that is) can be really helpful. I’ll say again it’s better to read threads like this, I don’t know anyone on this thread, than to have first hand experience.

Sony for sure...one of their cheap 5 disc sacd changers ...775? Raved about by JGH (!!) but he obviously didn't use it for long (if it was him..my memory just doesn't cut it anymore...but the lousy sony I'll never forget, and never buy another one)!

An old Sony player from the 80's that start giving problems going into the 5th year of use. Even the technician gave up and refused to attend to the piece of junk after several times of servicing and repair. It eventuall7y ended up in the garbage truck.

Having that said, the XA7ES from the mid 90's stands out from Sony's mass-market junk and remains a true gem on its own.