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Article #1593My CD player is running slow!
From: Matthew J Marjanovic
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 18:23
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 1990 18:23
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Is it possible?
Someone gave me a supposedly broken tape player to look
at, and while I was doing comparitive studies with CD recordings
I noticed that my CD player was running just a little bit slow:
everything was just a bit flat, and a good tape player would
perceptibly overtake the CD in about ten seconds.
I haven't opened up my player yet to snoop around, but what are the
chances of me being able to tweak it up to speed?
They player is a Garrard GCD-46 boombox deal, with the CD tray on top.
If there is a simple potentiometer in there labeled "Speed Adjust", what
can I use besides my ear to calibrate the machine? Are there any test
signals that a player produces (or is a calibration disc necessary?)?
I do have access to good quality oscilliscopes and the like, if I need them.
Thanks in advance for anything that will save me from
taking this in, and for getting this fixed before I
leave for home on Wednesday....
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Matt Marjanovic | "He who has never envied the vegetable,
maddog@athena.mit.edu | has missed the human drama."
| -- E.M. Cioran
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!maddog From: maddog@athena.mit.edu (Matthew J Marjanovic) Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics Subject: My CD player is running slow! Message-ID: <1990Jun2.182334.21396@athena.mit.edu> Date: 2 Jun 90 18:23:34 GMT Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Reply-To: maddog@athena.mit.edu (Matthew J Marjanovic) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 31