Tried the dusting bit with no success, unless its really glued on somehow.
Worth a second try. I note in its instructions it sys do not use cleaning
discs as they might damage it.
Brian

"Woody" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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OK I have a not that old but out of warranty Marantz cd player which is
supposed to and did play cdrw disc.

However over a time its stopped doing this and now has issues on some,
mainly home made but some commercial, discs as well. This manifests
itself as hunting either at the start or when you manually move a track u
the listing. It hunts for a couple of seconds then gives up with an error
in the display window. Unfortunately you need to eject the disc to get it
to look again.
I was just wondering whether this is just some drift in servos or a
problem with the laser.
This model was in fact from what I have seen, also sold as Philips as the
controls are in the same basic places and just the styling and case is
different, ie the Philips looks flimsy.

The other one is a brand new panasonic el cheapo dvd player. for around
40 quid. As such it works fine, and can even apparently do clever stuff
with ram sticks.
The one snag is that when playing cds, it always ducks the sound where a
track marker is, so say, a live cd with no breaks but track makers to
help you find parts of the recording tends to sound like a lot of small
bits of live performance.
It also has an annoying habit of chopping of the last few seconds of mp3
tracks both on cd and on ram sticks.
Looks to me like it needs some kind of firmware fix, but would not know
if this is true or its just a botched up cd player glued onto a dvd
player. This would not really matter if it were not for the fact that the
actual sound of it playing cds is amazingly good compared to many higher
priced players.
As I say, no head for part numbers but can get them when a pair of eyes
comes along later on.


The problem with the Marantz is likely dust on the lens. You can buy a
cleaner disc which has a row of small bristles on the playing side. An
aerosol duster blown on the lens when it is exposed also works.


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com


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