First signs of dying CD player mechanism?

Machineghost

Machineghost

Ghost in the machine
What are the first signs of a dying cd player laser mechanism?

I suspect my old Marantz is giving up ghost. Sigh...
 
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Then I am screwed in the digital source department for a while.

Nearly smacked the machine from the shelf last night as it was severely skipping whilst playing pristine cds.

Whoopi doo! It just never ends hey? When you think one problem is solved, another pops up. C'est la vie!
 
Not reading table of contents and taking a long time. Skipping and not playing CDRs like others said.

It is also temperature dependent. Some are worse when cold while other as they warm up.

wsjoe
 
Then it is surely dying. My discs are well taken care of and all are clean and scratch free...

Oh dear bank manager... may I have a moment to talk to you... you see there is this new cd player that I need... lol! !!
 
What about the loss of one channel, is that a sign? My old Denon was only playing through the right channel last night. Checked all cables and tried multiple cds. All other sources playback was fine.
 
Machineghost, have you cleaned the lens and blown out the optical assembly? Pretty easy to do in those Philips-based machines.
 
Pacific... I did service the machine a few months back but I suspect it is dying. I got it for free from a friend.

It has been used a lot I guess because the script on the buttons have been worn down bad.
 
ongaku said:
What about the loss of one channel, is that a sign? My old Denon was only playing through the right channel last night. Checked all cables and tried multiple cds. All other sources playback was fine.
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That has to be something pretty far down the signal path (DAC or after). Up to the DAC, both channels are mixed together, so that lets things like the laser off the hook.
 
wsjoe said:
Which Denon is it? does it have volume pot and FIXED/VARIABLE rca jacks?
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It's an old 615 that I've had for years that only has one set of RCA jacks in the rear. I examined the cables and inputs are fine with no corrosion at all. I was going to open it up last night, but not being a mechanically astute person and the big stickers warning of electric shock had me chicken out. Should I crack it open and clean the laser? Seems like a more serious problem, but again, LPs, tapes and radio play fine with no problems whatsoever.
 
andy said:
That has to be something pretty far down the signal path (DAC or after). Up to the DAC, both channels are mixed together, so that lets things like the laser off the hook.
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Oops, just caught that. I guess it's not the laser then. Unfortunately a new disc player isn't in the budget for a while so I'll have to make do. Well, chin up. A good opportunity to step up to an introductory NAD or Cambridge player.
 
Well, things were worse last night with all sources only playing out of the right. After a thorough check it doesn't appear to the cd player at all, but rather the tone mode control on my Marantz 2265. Changing from 100Hz to 10Hz there was a slight pop and sound was restored to the left channel. Looks like it's deoxit time.
 
What about the sound of "skipping static" in both channels on only some cd's? Yeah, that's what I mean...there is an audible static that sounds like *it* is skipping, but the still audible music is not skipping. Laser need realigning? Others discs play flawlessly.
 
Atrac... yes, that happens sometimes. I had a nice pro Denon machine that did that. Simply adjusted the focus and tracking and voila!
 
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