Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123!rick From: rick@ofa123.fidonet.org (Rick Ellis) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: My CD player is running slow! Message-ID: <515.266B8EC8@ofa123.fidonet.org> Date: 5 Jun 90 10:34:08 GMT Organization: Universal Electronics Inc. (Gateway) Lines: 24 In an article of , Matthew J Marjanovic (maddog@athena.mit.edu) writes: MJM> Someone gave me a supposedly broken tape player to look MJM> at, and while I was doing comparitive studies with CD recordings MJM> I noticed that my CD player was running just a little bit slow: MJM> everything was just a bit flat, and a good tape player would MJM> perceptibly overtake the CD in about ten seconds. Why do you think the CD player is slow? It's much more likely that the tape player is fast. MJM> I haven't opened up my player yet to snoop around, but what are the MJM> chances of me being able to tweak it up to speed? Just about zero. The CD play should be using a crystal for its timebase. -- uucp: Rick Ellis Internet: rick@ofa123.fidonet.org BBS: 714 544-0934 2400/1200/300