Stay way from vinyl thenI still have boxes and boxes of compact discs but no player... I have forgotten about the ritual of having to get off arse, pick one out of the collection of thousands, remove it, open case, remove the compact disc, open disc draw/lid , place in compact disc, close draw/lid, press play, sit arse back down, put case down or remove booklet ..... ... I'll stick to dreaming and streaming thinks me
Glad to have no moving parts in my system apart from my LP12 .
What about your vibrating capacitors??Glad to have no moving parts in my system apart from my LP12 .
My last cd spinner was was a lovely Linn Ikemi but when the winds of change around streaming caught my interest it had to go!
Got my handy roll of f'oq tape handy!What about your vibrating capacitors??
I had an old Mark Levinson CDP many years ago that developed a drawer opening and closing problem. I took off the top cover and found that the rails that the carriage slid along needed cleaning. This done and a couple of drops of light oil (not WD40) and it was fixed.The drawer mechanism of my 25 year old CD player is unhappy about getting old.
I have a Audio Note AN CD2 player with a NOS Dac and a valve output stage. It still sounds amazing and I do not want to give up on it.
The draw/disc reader mechanism is not happy. When you push the button to close the draw, with increasing frequency, the draw closes, whirs for a bit, does not engage and then opens again. This actually started about 5 years ago but is doing it more often. Now, sometimes it takes about 10 to 15 attempts to get it to engage.
I'm assuming this is a common problem with very old mechanisms. I believe it is a Sony mechanism.
Any advice and suggestions would be welcome. Is it possible to replace the mechanism for a newer one if I found one?
With the DAC chip it has got, I would really like to save it.
Any thoughts, suggestions and advice would be really welcome.
Cheers. C.
I wouldn'tYour player is very old and won't have a DAC that matches modern ones, even those in relatively low-cost units. I'd probably fix the mechanics and use the digital out to a new DAC, or a digital amp that includes a DAC.
Good to hear and unlike a lot of others, AN do keep a great stock and are very helpful to customers. If you really want to thank them then 2 of the chaps will be at the Show and mingling with Wammers. It includes one of their two key designers.
This.'I had an old Mark Levinson CDP many years ago that developed a drawer opening and closing problem. I took off the top cover and found that the rails that the carriage slid along needed cleaning. This done and a couple of drops of light oil (not WD40) and it was fixed.'
You really want to be using plastic lube for this purpose, not any form of oil.......
I toy with the idea of streaming, but don't quite get round to it. My wife streams some stuff via her phone. Sounds not terrible.I had an old Mark Levinson CDP many years ago that developed a drawer opening and closing problem. I took off the top cover and found that the rails that the carriage slid along needed cleaning. This done and a couple of drops of light oil (not WD40) and it was fixed.
Your player is very old and won't have a DAC that matches modern ones, even those in relatively low-cost units. I'd probably fix the mechanics and use the digital out to a new DAC, or a digital amp that includes a DAC.
Or go the whole hog and ditch CDs altogether and subscribe to a high quality streaming service. Since I started streaming, my CDs have gathered dust in drawers, although I can still play them. As I've ripped my collection of about 1500 CDs, the FLAC files are readily available from the hard drive within my new CD player / ripper / hard drive store / streamer. The CD Play feature is now only used when I have visitors with their own CDs that I don't wish to rip!
Good luck. Peter