tmk
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Since I've seen a few people in this forum recommend this player, I thought I'd post this here.
I just purchased the level 1+ modified version of the CD-25 from underwoodwally, and it truly is a wonderful sounding piece of equipment. Unfortunately, there are a couple of strange things about it.
The first is an audible clicking sound that occurs just before the player first starts to play. I also hear this clicking sound when pausing, unpausing, and stopping the player, but not when skipping between tracks. It isn't too bothersome and I suppose I could learn to live with it, but it is an odd quirk that I've never encountered in other cd players.
The second problem is much more worrying. On 90% of my cds, the CD-25 will miss the first few seconds of the first track that it plays, whether it starts from the beginning of the disc or from somewhere in the middle. When I press play, I can hear the disc spinning up; I hear the laser read from the disc (or so I suppose it's doing) three times, after which it finds the requested track. After a brief pause, the track begins playing - minus the first couple of seconds. Occasionally, it will be unable to play the track at all, and I hear a brief burst of feedback instead; after that it reads from the disc three times and finds the track again, and then it plays fine.
I've heard the feedback five or six times on random tracks, but the player constantly misplays its first track. Although it does not do it on every track of a cd, it consistently does it with the same tracks every time, each time they are played initially. If I restart the track, everything is fine. It's only the intial playing that the player has trouble with.
I've tried dozens of different cds with this player, and since the player misses seconds with most of them I am certain that the problem isn't with my cds, which are clean and scratchless for the most part. I've also tried putting the player on different surfaces, swapping out the interconnects, and plugging the power cord directly into the wall instead of my surge protector. These things were all obviously shots in the dark, and none of them had an effect on the problem.
I suspect I've gotten a lemon that has a malfunctioning transport or tracking mechanism. Are there any other CD-25 owners here who have experienced similar problems?
I just purchased the level 1+ modified version of the CD-25 from underwoodwally, and it truly is a wonderful sounding piece of equipment. Unfortunately, there are a couple of strange things about it.
The first is an audible clicking sound that occurs just before the player first starts to play. I also hear this clicking sound when pausing, unpausing, and stopping the player, but not when skipping between tracks. It isn't too bothersome and I suppose I could learn to live with it, but it is an odd quirk that I've never encountered in other cd players.
The second problem is much more worrying. On 90% of my cds, the CD-25 will miss the first few seconds of the first track that it plays, whether it starts from the beginning of the disc or from somewhere in the middle. When I press play, I can hear the disc spinning up; I hear the laser read from the disc (or so I suppose it's doing) three times, after which it finds the requested track. After a brief pause, the track begins playing - minus the first couple of seconds. Occasionally, it will be unable to play the track at all, and I hear a brief burst of feedback instead; after that it reads from the disc three times and finds the track again, and then it plays fine.
I've heard the feedback five or six times on random tracks, but the player constantly misplays its first track. Although it does not do it on every track of a cd, it consistently does it with the same tracks every time, each time they are played initially. If I restart the track, everything is fine. It's only the intial playing that the player has trouble with.
I've tried dozens of different cds with this player, and since the player misses seconds with most of them I am certain that the problem isn't with my cds, which are clean and scratchless for the most part. I've also tried putting the player on different surfaces, swapping out the interconnects, and plugging the power cord directly into the wall instead of my surge protector. These things were all obviously shots in the dark, and none of them had an effect on the problem.
I suspect I've gotten a lemon that has a malfunctioning transport or tracking mechanism. Are there any other CD-25 owners here who have experienced similar problems?
