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Like all units from the DPS 7 range, the M7 suffers quite a bit from the over-indulgence of Sony’s engineers — it’s nice to have the option to tweak 300 parameters of a preset but is it really useful (or helpful, for that matter)? For this very reason, I stick with the numerous well-programmed presets on board which are truly impressive (the “Black Coral” chorus is one of the most useful and impressive-sounding choruses on synthesisers) and tailor them to my needs.

There is plenty of other useful stuff to mine it for and I’d be surprised if even the most demanding user wouldn’t find something to suit his applications. The build quality is very decent although huge LCDs, encoders, switches, and some electronic components might not exactly be built to last. It produces a lot of heat when in use so make sure there is ample space between this and the other units in a 19″ rack. I had some component part die on a D7 which resulted in ugly noises, and it was quite costly to repair. Also, the 7 series seems to eat away on CR2032 cells so be prepared to have a battery holder clip installed rather than the type of 2032 that is soldered to the main PCB directly.

Like the Sony D7 I had this for a short time, the effects are good, chorus is nice etc but I did not find it a particularly inspiring box of tricks as I had hoped and again the user interface is awful to use.

Still works & sounds great after all these years. I really only use my own presets, but it offers some great starting points with all the stock presets. Very quiet & clean for a delay of this age. JUST had to replace the battery (it’s a bit of a pain because the battery is soldered in), still not bad for a 1991 delay! I’ll be using it till it dies.

A delay with good clean 20 bit audio, no digital nasties. It has little or no character. The menu system is ridiculous.

Very good device.

I had this but not for long, nothing particularly wrong with it as it offered good clean delays, but like all 7 series Sonys the interface is a bit of a dog to use and so I went back to using a plugin.

I owned one and miss it! I really love the way Sony built and designed the UI with the alpha dial and the hundreds of parameters to emulate chambers, rooms and artificial what evers….During my ownership: 2008 – 2017, I had to replace the buffer battery (CR2032) three times. And I didn’t purchase cheap or old batteries. That really drove me mad.
You need to ask the previous owner when the battery was replaced the last time. the unit requires 3 Rows in your 19″ rack to be cooled form both sides. Otherwise the display will get issue.

This is clean and can be uncoloured. It is the reverb I go to when I want to match or augment a natural reverb already recorded. It can be basically nu-identifiable even on a simply miked acoustic recording. (I have over a dozen hardware reverbs and no others can do this function as well.)

I have AMS RMX 16, AKG BX20, A Plate, still this is on every mix since I got it one year ago. Fantastic “real” reverb sound that beats all plugins.

Obviously better than using a plug in reverb. Perhaps a little noisy but nothing important because you can fix it with a good input/output balance. Clean reverb and good early reflections, good presets and a lot of parameters to configure your own user banks.

I can remember back in the day when the Sony DPS-R7 was first released dreaming of owning one but they were too far out of reach back then, now prices on these things are falling daily to stupidly low levels, and after trying one in my rack all I can say is get yourself one. Way better than any plugin I have used and build quality is great. Forget about editing as the interface is bloody confusing so just go with the presets as they are excellent.