"Vir Campestris" wrote in message
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All uk.tech.broadcast denizens can stop reading now

Our CD player has died. Suggestions please on how much to pay to get a
replacement. It was a Philips CD373, and to be honest it doesn't owe us
anything - it's been around a good long while. I suspect the laser has
died, as it went from perfect to "I see no disc" in an instant.

I would have said not. It is very unusual for lasers to 'just die'. They
almost always grow old gracefully, and will give assorted symptoms such as
poor playability, skipping, or extreme sensitivity to vibration, long before
they get to the point of declaring "NO DISC". Before finally condemning it,
I would open it up and make sure at least that the lens is clean, and that a
disc fully loads onto the turntable, and is free to rotate when it's there.
I have seen many simple mechanical problems on various Philips models over
many years of repairing them going right back to when CD first came out.
Philips lasers, although they *do* of course fail or wear out sometimes,
tend to be one of the more reliable makes.


Arfa


Andy