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From: guhsd000@crash.cts.com (Paula Ferris)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: CD Player Questions
Message-ID: <3139@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 Jun 88 18:00:09 GMT
References: <352@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: guhsd000@crash.CTS.COM (Paula Ferris)
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In article <352@proxftl.UUCP> tomh@proxftl.UUCP (Tom Holroyd) writes:
>I've had two CD players stop working after a while.  Two friends of mine
>have had exactly the same problems with their CD players.  After a while,
>the players stop playing certain tracks of certain CDs, almost like the
>player gets to a certain sound and can't deal with it any more.  The player
>just starts the piece over again, or turns off.  This tends to happen more
>and more frequently, and then starts happening with disks and tunes that
>used to work.  After a while, no CD is playable.
>
>It isn't dirt on the disks.  Maybe it's humidity (we live in Florida).
>
>This has happened with 4 different players that I know of (a Sony D5,
>a Sony Discman, and two different full size units).
>
>Are all CD players really this bad?
>
>Tom Holroyd
>UUCP: {uunet,codas}!novavax!proxftl!tomh
>
>The white knight is talking backwards.


I'm not an expert on cd's, but on mine, it has started to skip before.  Seeing how it was still under warranty, I brought it back to the guy and said, "Fix it."

All it was, he said, was the servo was sticking a bit.  I'm not sure, but humidity could play a role in that in your area.  I doubt that it would be related to the information on the disc at all.
If the humidity was really bad, I suppose it could condense on some of the 'tronics and foul things up really bad.

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