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.
Brian

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