My CD player is running slow!

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From: Rick Ellis
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 1990 10:34

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In an article of <Jun 02 18:23>, Matthew J Marjanovic (maddog@athena.mit.edu) 
writes:

 MJM> Someone gave me a supposedly broken tape player to look
 MJM>   at, and while I was doing comparitive studies with CD recordings
 MJM>   I noticed that my CD player was running just a little bit slow:
 MJM>         everything was just a bit flat, and a good tape player would
 MJM>         perceptibly overtake the CD in about ten seconds.

Why do you think the CD player is slow?  It's much more likely that the tape 
player is fast.  


 MJM> I haven't opened up my player yet to snoop around, but what are the
 MJM>    chances of me being able to tweak it up to speed?

Just about zero.  The CD play should be using a crystal for its timebase.

 

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Subject: My CD player is running slow!
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Date: 5 Jun 90 10:34:08 GMT
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