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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD isolation
Message-ID: <61@tekcrl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 14:51:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 23 14:51:36 1985
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>All this talk about isolation was so interesting that I fired up my Sony
>D-5 just to test it out.  Picked it up while playing...  nothing.  Shook it
>gently...  nothing.  Shook it harder than I thought reasonable prudent... 
>nothing.  Turned it upside down while playing (let me see you LP fans
>do this one!)... no audible effect.  Oh well, I guess I'll just have to
>get a more expensive player if I want to see a CD mistrack :-)

     Well, consider yourself lucky that you got a very good unit!!! My D-5
(which is the "portable" CD player, which is debatable once you see and feel
how heavy the battery pack for it weighs!!!) also does not mistrack by just
picking it up, shaking it gently, or turning it upside down, but does mistrack
when shaken vigorously. Also, try tapping it when it sits on a solid surface.
Makes mine mistrack almost every time, depending on how hard I tap it. But
since I bought it basically as a home and office unit, and don't plan on
using it too much as a portable (except on plane or train rides; sure beats
the garbage they put on planes as audio, not to mention much better audio
tonal quality).


					Terry Laskodi
					     of
					Tektronix