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Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty
CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks. I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? -- Martyn Tindall Leeds, England, United Kingdom (To reply, please remove "spamfree.".) |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
I would have thought the only way a CD could damage a player is by acting as
a carrier for some material that gets into the workings or damages the laser. Actually I wonder if your friends CD transport knackered itself out trying to read the disc, but it would have to have been near the end of it's life anyway. Or sheer coincidence? "Martyn B Tindall" wrote in message ... A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks. I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? -- Martyn Tindall Leeds, England, United Kingdom (To reply, please remove "spamfree.".) |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:26:02 +0000, Martyn B Tindall wrote:
A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks. I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? Almost certainly coincidence. If you ever watch the CD-ROM drive in a playstation you will see just how much hammer these mechanisms can take. Some CD players can't read rewritable CDs at all though and some of the older ones even have problems with CD-R disks. After all, they were designed to play audio CDs. If your (very recent model) player has problems reading his disks then it is probably his disks that are at fault. Sounds like he has a problem at his end. -- Mick (no M$ software on here... :-) ) Web: http://www.nascom.info |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
"Martyn B Tindall" wrote in message
A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. I imagine that a defective disc could be warped or break apart in use and damage a player. Did this happen? The same friend has given me lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks. It's probably because of problems with his creation process. I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Spending a lot of money on a CD player is not a smart thing to do at this time, and if it makes you paranoid about your friends, then it is really a bad idea. Is my mate talking nonsense? Probably. Any thoughts? Paranoa runs deep, particularly when people get obsessive about their posessions. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
Martyn B Tindall wrote:
I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? unless the disc in question was made of sandpaper or something then yes, hes talking nonsense. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
Kurt Hamster wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:26:33 +0000, Ian Molton used to say... unless the disc in question was made of sandpaper or something then yes, hes talking nonsense. Why would sandpaper make a difference? Oh sorry I thought you meant it would wear down the laser beam! Hm. well assuming you got the joke, I can only think you're *trying* to be argumentative, but... 1) bits of grit may fall into the lense assembly 2) if its sufficiently warped, it might wear away the mechanism. Im sure there are other possibilities... but as I said, I was joking. |
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Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
"Paul Hutchings" wrote in message
.119 (Martyn B Tindall) wrote in : I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? I suspect if the laser has trouble reading the CD the laser/transport might have to work a little harder accelerating wear. The focusing and fine tracking is done by means of something that is a little like a loudspeaker voice coil. Takes a long time to show any wear. I'm saying that based mostly on the noises that the CD-Rom on my PC can make when trying to read particularly scratched and dodgy CDs. That's due the speaker voice-coil nature of the CD transport's focusing mechanism. They're designed to do a lot of of that. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
"Martyn B Tindall" wrote in message
... A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty CD-R given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me lots of CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks. I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? I have seen a CD disc disintegrate into a thousand pieces and ruin a CDRW drive. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
In article ,
Paul Dormer wrote: A poor quality CDR will put extra strain on the CD player. It will need to work harder to track the data on the disc. This could theoretically shorten it's lifespan, by how much I don't know! If anything, this is more likely to be a concern with older players, built before low reflectivity CDR was commonplace. But these commonly won't play CDR anyway. -- *Arkansas State Motto: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Laugh. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
In article ,
Paul Dormer wrote: Some older players are 'borderline' capable of playing CDR, depending on what media your using and how well it has been burned. My old Arcam was like that. Some days it would reject a disc it played before (but not without having a damn good crack at it) and visa versa. Yes. My oldest one currently working is a CD104. That plays most. Later '80s early '90s ones seem to barf the most. -- *Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his animal friends Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Can a cheap CD-R break a CD player?
On 11 Nov 2004 21:22:38 GMT, Paul Hutchings wrote:
(Martyn B Tindall) wrote in : I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any thoughts? Thanks for all the replies to this one. MBT -- Martyn Tindall Leeds, England, United Kingdom (To reply, please remove "spamfree.".) |
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