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Article #19316Re: CD Player Questions
From: Paula Ferris
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 18:00
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 18:00
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In article <352@proxftl.UUCP> tomh@proxftl.UUCP (Tom Holroyd) writes:
>I've had two CD players stop working after a while. Two friends of mine
>have had exactly the same problems with their CD players. After a while,
>the players stop playing certain tracks of certain CDs, almost like the
>player gets to a certain sound and can't deal with it any more. The player
>just starts the piece over again, or turns off. This tends to happen more
>and more frequently, and then starts happening with disks and tunes that
>used to work. After a while, no CD is playable.
>
>It isn't dirt on the disks. Maybe it's humidity (we live in Florida).
>
>This has happened with 4 different players that I know of (a Sony D5,
>a Sony Discman, and two different full size units).
>
>Are all CD players really this bad?
>
>Tom Holroyd
>UUCP: {uunet,codas}!novavax!proxftl!tomh
>
>The white knight is talking backwards.
I'm not an expert on cd's, but on mine, it has started to skip before. Seeing how it was still under warranty, I brought it back to the guy and said, "Fix it."
All it was, he said, was the servo was sticking a bit. I'm not sure, but humidity could play a role in that in your area. I doubt that it would be related to the information on the disc at all.
If the humidity was really bad, I suppose it could condense on some of the 'tronics and foul things up really bad.
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