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From: John@sri-csl.ARPA
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Subject: CD defects
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 05:34:30 EDT
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Some months ago, I gave in to the urge to buy a compact disc player.
At the present time, my CD collection is about 40 discs.  I have noticed
what appears to be a trend regarding disc quality defects and am
curious if anyone else has had similar experiences.

To be specific, discs produced by Polygram (this includes the DG, Philips,
London, Polydor, RSO and Mercury labels) in W. Germany seem to be prone
to "skipping" and "getting stuck".  (One disc I have endlessly repeats
an entire track.)  My current return rate (of Polygram discs) is running
at about 40 percent.  I've not had any problem with any of the 
discs produced by other manufacturers (Sanyo and CBS/Sony of Japan)
I've returned the defective discs to the retailer for exchange
and the replacements have always played acceptably.

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced similar problems with discs
made by Polygram.  Or is my player (a Sony D-5 Discman) "excessively"
sensitive to minor defects?