{"id":1256,"date":"2003-10-15T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:22:55","slug":"sony-xa7es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/review\/digital-reviews\/cd-player-reviews\/sony-xa7es\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony CDP-XA7ES CD Player &#8211; Quick Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The predecessor of the XA50ES<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sounds a lot like the XA50ES but more natural and fuller, perhaps thanks to its discrete output stage? XA50ES has OP-Amps, but the rest of the analog board is also different. 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