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?


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Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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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
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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

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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:26:02 GMT,
(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?

Just coincidence.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

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

"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.

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.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:26:02 GMT,
(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?

He's talking nonsense.

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

(Martyn B Tindall) wrote in
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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.

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.

regards
Paul
--
paul at spamcop.net

"Paul Hutchings" wrote in message
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(Martyn B Tindall) wrote in
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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.

On 11 Nov 2004 21:22:38 GMT, Paul Hutchings wrote:

(Martyn B Tindall) wrote in
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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


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Martyn Tindall
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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