Ben, I own the SCD-1 and DVP s9000es players. In my experience and from what others have said in previous threads:
1. The s9000es takes about 200 hours for the cd laser to to burn-in and 200 to 400 hours for the SACD laser. The SCD-1 took me about 300 hours for cd and then another 300 hours or so for SACD.
2. In my experience the burn-in is more gradual, but there were certainly days where I'd hear improvements more than gradual.
3. Still both units will sound quite good right out of the box. Especially the SCD-1. Instantly could tell this unit was significantly better in every sonic category over the s9000es. And I think the s9000es is a very nice unit sonically that does so many things well.
-IMO
1. The s9000es takes about 200 hours for the cd laser to to burn-in and 200 to 400 hours for the SACD laser. The SCD-1 took me about 300 hours for cd and then another 300 hours or so for SACD.
2. In my experience the burn-in is more gradual, but there were certainly days where I'd hear improvements more than gradual.
3. Still both units will sound quite good right out of the box. Especially the SCD-1. Instantly could tell this unit was significantly better in every sonic category over the s9000es. And I think the s9000es is a very nice unit sonically that does so many things well.
-IMO