"baseball bat" wrote in message
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I've recently picked up a used Marantz CD6000 KI Signature and I find
that it won't always play CD-Rs I've burned myself. It will
occasionally not read past the TOC on a disc, or if it does, will not
skip from one track to the next. Instead it throws up an error
message and does nothing. But if left alone it will play straight
through a disc without a problem.

I've been using white-top Intenso/Medianca brand discs for a while and
these are the ones which don't seem to work. I've got some older
Memorex-made Jungle.com discs which work perfectly and skip from track
to track with no problem. All types of disc play perfectly in my old
CD player, a Philips 850MkII, and in my kids' CD players.

As an experiment I've burned discs from several manufacturers at high
and low speeds, using both Nero 6 and Alcohol 120%. I've burned
compilations from downloaded mp3s and copied from a retail CD as the
source. Nothing has made any difference. The Marantz just doesn't
like some of these CD-Rs.

A search in Google groups has turned up a couple of references to this
problem, but no suggestions for a reliable way round it. So my
question is: do other Marantz owners have this problem with their CD
players? Or if your Marantz player plays CD-Rs without any problems,
what make are they and where do you buy them?

BTW I started to use white-top discs because all the Jungle.com discs
looked exactly the same with their green and white top and I could
never find the album I was after. Used to drive me mad. So ideally
I'm after a plain CD-R I can write on.

baseball bat

Curiously you note that a Philips will play anything but the Marantz will
not - strange given that they are likely the same mechanism!

Experience shows earlier JVC and most Hitachi players turn their noses up at
written discs.

However, by experimentation I have discovered that the discs that cause ths
problems are those that look silver(ish) when new and go blue when written.
Almost all players - and I include my recently updated Philips CD624 - seem
to have some difficulty here. Going for a silver disc that either stays
silver or goes a slightly yellowish or light greenish colour cures all. I
buy DataSafe brand from computer fairs at £4 for 25 and have never had any
problems. Surprisingly many of the stick discs from Expensive World also
work.

For the sake of trying I bought just one black CD as used, I think, for
PS2 - and it worked perfectly!


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Woody