Onkyo C-7030 Compact Disc Player (Black) - 2024 report by Whydis
Onkyo C-7030 Compact Disc Player (Black)
For music lovers who enjoy the tangible experience of playing a physical format, the CD retains its enduring appeal. The pleasure comes not just from browsing a collection of discs and reading the liner notes. It also comes from enjoying your music i...
It looks good, sounds good, feels good, just a great product.
The design is sleek, easy to set up and operate, and possesses a speedy response time compared to my 5-carriage, Sony hunk-o-junk that stopped working properly in under two years
Solid product with very good sound,good looks and quality feel.
Good product and a price that is less than one would expect for this kind of build quality.
It's one solid product and will be a great success for Onkyo
The sound quality was excellent and it was easy to operate
I find it it highly suspect that it is the unit's build quality as a problem when folks have issues with this player
Onkyo amplifiers which are perfectly working till these days.but this CD player is of really really bad quality
For me, sound quality is more important than convenience
However, note that this cd player does not output the data in I2S externally (just coax and optical) and thus, if the external DAC cannot strip the source clock coming with the data and re-clock internally, the connection jitter may deteriorate the output quality
Proves, like the Harman-Kardon HK-4390 amp I run (I don't care that it's a receiver, the power supply is sweet!), that excellent quality need not always come at a ridiculous price point
Woflson DAC- .flac file capable, .wav file capable and MP3 capable with any CD-R media that's burnt to properly
, this is about the only remaining single-play CD player at a reasonable price.
Lots of high end trickle down technology at a ridiculous low price.
To get the sound quality at a reasonable price I accepted a single disc player
player is very simple with no frills and appears to be well made with clean design.
tests.)Perhaps the best way to summarize this (most ridiculously long review of a less than $200 piece of equipment) would be to say that the Onkyo C-7030 is a great example of a system where good design and proper execution raise the whole a cut above the sum of its parts
As for the C-7030, first impressions are of a nicely designed and well constructed piece of hi-fi gear that sounds good sonically and is aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
The second issue is somewhat more involved as (it regards the player's transient response and) it could be caused by a variety of factors, such as: insufficient component bandwidth, low slew-rate of the active components (such as op-amps), improperly designed low pass-filters, gross variation in group or phase delays, etc
Personally, I don't like the design of the remote control
In an age of dissapering CD players, and millenials willing to live with crappy music reproduction, grab this bargain before it too goes bye-bye.
I will strongly recommend this unit even for the the most critical music listener
so it's nice to have a dedicated unit to enjoy the music.
Now we can't listen to great music enough ~ Love the quality of the player & our CD's sound awesome.
As a caution, you will want vibration isolating feet or some absorption layer as there is no buffering at all and thumps will go straight through the transport and disrupt your music.
Overall I like the Onkyo on Most music though I have noticed with headphones, some music sounds distorted and though I am Not a True audiophile there are passages that sound quite shrillas in Mahler 5th
I have a good quality Onkyo single CD player and a few Oppos
At double the price, this Onkyo would still be a great bargain.
But I've had the Onkyo for 8 months now and its user interface annoys me every day, for the following reasons:-The previous CD players I've owned all had a calendar display that shows the tracks that have been programmed
(We have an Onkyo Receiver that works well and is still working.
The sound is as good as, if not better than the high-end REGA CDP!
My office audio stack is comprised of a Marantz SR5009, Rotel RMB-1075 5 channel amp and the Onkyo C-7030.Audio sounds smooth and crisp and will probably sound even better after a couple weeks.
It only displays the track number being played and elapsed playback time of the individual song,,,nothing else
Woflson DAC- .flac file capable, .wav file capable and MP3 capable with any CD-R media that's burnt to properly
(The Onkyo would require fewer clicks than the Denon for tracks numbered higher than 30, but I've never had a CD with a track number that high
Thus, while some take it to be the true revelation, others believe the extra nuances and "new things" many have sworn they hear on SACD's are in fact nothing more than the nonlinear ringing (induced by that brutal noise shaping filter) and aliasing of that not-quite-random high frequency noise leaking into the audio band
, there is a very brief electrical "pop" or static noise.
excellent CD player, extremely low noise, even audiophiles will like it.
It also seemed to skip on perfectly good CD’s...which really surprised and annoyed me
The laser inside makes some funny noise like crickets when is scanning or playing the disc
After a short couple of short years this thing lost volume and distorts the music pretty badly.
The sound level output was half that of the Denon as well... requiring me to use a much louder amplifier volume setting to match that of the Denon
i don't like to play it loud, but this was an accident that showed me the volume was clear on the upper end as well as the mellow.
My old Sony had a headphone jack also, but no volume control, so it was impossible to use it because the volume was so loud and there was no way to adjust it
After a short couple of short years this thing lost volume and distorts the music pretty badly.
The laser on this unit proved to be the weak link in the chain, as I have
Don't forget - any system is only as good as its weakest link
I was okay with my nearly 10-year-old Sony 5-disc player whose turntable recently quit working, and it was honestly the specification weak link in my moderate quality 5 channel AV system anchored with a Denon AVR 3300 and Boston Acoustic speakers
Don't forget - any system is only as good as its weakest link
It has amazing sound, so much so, that I realized that my subwoofer was now the weak link in my system