I've had no issues with the media from commercial sources, ie the original
Philips demo disc for my cd100 still plays perfectly, and it has to date
from 1983. Even some of the earliest home made cds are fine and yet this
particular player has issues with some of the home made ones, either not
finding next track closer to the outside edge or as I say, not finding the
disc or the first track depending on the severity. All on tdk disc CD rw
are just a waste of time as one hears crackles skips and repeated bits and
in some cases old content supposedly erased as well.

However there are some writers which produce better discs for this player
than others, though on my cheapo tesco portable player they all play fine.
I imagine its tolerances and in the way of some tape recorders playing
things that they should not, optical players can sometimes see the bits of a
disc they should not see creating noise on the signal that it just cannot
cope with.


Strange it is though that often the cheapest players have the best tracking.
Brian

"RJH" wrote in message
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On 24/01/2016 10:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
No I'm darn sorf, in surrey.

Ah, never mind.

I think in the past it was sometimes an adjustment on the pcb, but
there
seem to be none on this unit. I suppose another machine might in the end
be
the answer. the innards of these devices seem to be very empty these
days,
Hardly high density pcbs though there is a fairly large mains transformer
which has started to buzz a little when on.

I've got a quite expensive Harmon Kardon HD970 CD player with a facility
to use it as a DAC. But it has trouble with some discs nowadays. I gather
from a brief internet search that the simplest solution is to swap out the
mechanism.

I've never been that convinced by optical media - far from the 'perfect
forever' we were asked to believe.

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