Sony Playstation 1 for a CD player ???

Bad news in Playstation-land. Rhing, I appreciated the link you passed along above, but the process to tune the player was beyond my technical abilities. So I bought a second Playstation on eBay. And it turns out that not only would it not play burned CDs either as I described above, but after a few days it started skipping the same way (though not as badly) on perfectly good new CDs. So I put the old one back in the system, and after a day it started doing the same thing. So I'm thinking the inability to play burned discs may have been a symptom rather than the problem itself. I'm bummed.

In any case, though I love the sound of the Playstation I'm looking now at spending a few bucks more on something a little more reliable and less quirky in its operation (and with a remote! and a non-plastic case!). I'm thinking of an Onkyo DX-7555, though I'm going to take some time looking around. I'll post a comparison when I'm able.

The tracking and the transport in general seems to be a little on the cheap and flimsy side; it skips in a heartbeat. But mine is playing everything i throw at it (knock on wood).

I've got a backup ps1 just in case...

Is anyone using PS1 with a tube preamp? I have been using PS1 as a secondary CD player with McCormack solid state preamp for some times. I liked the smooth and natural analogue-like sound very much. Then I've recently replaced McCormack with a CJ tube preamp. While the sound from everything else improved, the sound quality from PS1 nose dived. It now sounds like a cheap $20 CD player, with limited freq extremes, dull, and just not as exciting as before. Talk about system synergy!

i have used a playstation 1 with tube amp and preamp. there was no problem. there was no attenuation in the treble.

it may be an impedance mismatch. i'm running it through a tubed pre, sounds great.