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From: lat@druil.UUCP (TepperL)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Reliability of Sony CD Players (SUMMARY)
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 13:42:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 13:42:11 1985
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As the respondees with a "skipping" 520-ES player I have some more
information.  I took the unit back to the dealer with the 6 suspect
CD's in hand.

After talking with one of their people for a few minutes, we looked
at the CD's.  Every single one of them had holes (visible when held
up to a bright light) in a place that approximately correlated with
where they were skipping.  If you don't remember (or haven't yet
received the original article) all the skipping occured in the later
tracks on the CD, i. e. the outer portion of the disc.  One in particular,
a disc of Elton John's Good Bye Yellow Brick Road, was riddled!

(-: Gosh, do you suppose the laser is burning holes in them? :-)

We replaced 4 of the CD's.  I kept the other two to return later because
they are both halves of double disc sets.  Unfortunately, they had only
one of the original titles (Dark Side of the Moon).  I swapped the other
3 for new selections.  All 4 of the new CD's (most importantly DSOTM)
have played correctly.

HOWEVER, I must also point out that at least three of the bad discs played
correctly on a friend's Toshiba unit, including GoodBye Yellow Brick Road.
This makes me suspect deficiencies with Sony's error correction, although
this is merely speculation.
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Larry Tepper	    {ihnp4 | allegra}!drutx!druil!lat		+1-303-538-1759
	Back to you, Walter.