The invention relates to an axial piston machine (100) for pump and/or motor operation, comprising a housing (10), a connection plate (20) connected to the housing (10), and a piston drum (30) arranged in the housing (10) on a rotatable drive shaft (40). At least one cylinder bore (31a) is formed in the piston drum (30), in which a working piston (32) is arranged in a longitudinally displaceable manner, thereby delimiting a volume-variable cylinder space (31) with the cylinder bore (31a). The cylinder chamber (31) can be connected via at least one hydraulic connection to at least one pre-compression volume (50), the at least one pre-compression volume (50) being arranged in the housing (10).