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Suspicious CD player......

Blazingmonga (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 25th September 2001, 18:19

GRRrrr! I tried to post this earlier but Internet Exploder crashed at the very last minute. Thank-you-very-much-Microsoft.....

Anyway.

My big brother gave me his old Eclipse 101 CD player for free as he just got a nice shiny Marantz one, and he was feeling generous. I have it connected to my Digitheatre (Non-DTS) using standard analogue cables. The thing is that when I play some CDs a fuzzy/scratchy noise becomes apparent and can sound quite bad. Most CDs sound fine though.

Any idea what this is? Can I fix it? Or is the CD player just screwed?

That could explain why he gave it to me for free........

RE: Suspicious CD player......

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 25th September 2001, 20:57

Sorry if this sounds obvious, but are the CDs themselves scratched or dirty in any way? Some CD players are better at coping with surface defects than others.

Mike

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Blazingmonga (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 25th September 2001, 21:30

Heh thats ok, you were quite right to mention that.

I did check that, but maybe I will check it again. I thought of this though and played the same CDs on my PC to check that they were working ok and they played fine, so I know the music itself is not to blame.

Its a bit of a mystery to me.

RE: Suspicious CD player......

Kid Brunch (Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 26th September 2001, 09:42

My CD player is acting suspiciously too. It seems to think that I am having an affair with the next door neighbour`s wife.

I am though.

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Simon Bovey. (Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 26th September 2001, 10:20

yopu could try cleaning the lens - carefuly !! - and don`t use one of those CD`s with little brushes on them that are suppose to clean CD players - can can cause more harm than good.

if you are happy to then take it apart and use a cotton but and clean the lens in a circular motion with on the pressure of it`s built in spring pushing it against the bud - i`ve repaired CDrom drives / cd-rw drives / audio players etc with this way and they work perfectly.

you got nothing to loose by trying this if it was free - remmeber to unplug it from the mains though (voice of experience from years past)

RE: Suspicious CD player......

Blazingmonga (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 26th September 2001, 19:12

Cleaning the lens....hmmm......

Is this likely to be difficult? I dont really want to take it apart only to find that I cant put it back together again.

Sounds like a plan though.

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Simon Bovey. (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 27th September 2001, 11:01

depends on the player really - in my experience if you take the lid off (4 screws or so) then you can normaly see the lens without taking anything else apart - if not then you can guess where the laser is because you can tell where the disk would normaly go - after you`ve done it it`s best to put the lid back on again before you power it up and try it - CD / DVD players use infrared lasers which you can`t see and if you stare at them it doesn`t do your eyes and good at all - so don`t ! (obviously they are safe when turned off before anyone says anything !)

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Fecker (Competent) posted this on Thursday, 27th September 2001, 11:37

CDs don`t crackle if they`re scratched, they just jump.
It sounds more like an electrical problem to me. Try a new lead, try it further away from your surround amp etc. Does it work ok connected to another hi-fi - if it does then it must be interference.

RE: Suspicious CD player......

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 27th September 2001, 12:05

"CDs don`t crackle if they`re scratched, they just jump."

Wrong. I`ve had scratched CDs cause crackling on my player before - if the error correction circuitry can`t deal with the scratches, then you get crackling or similar unpleasant noises. Some CD players have better error correction than others.

I would only suspect an electrical problem if this happened with *all* discs, not just a few.

Mike

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