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This unit was given to me with the complaint that it would
intermittently "skip". I did confirm this to be so and I subsequently
slightly increased the setting on the laser pot. The unit seemed to be
OK after that and I put it away for several months. I now have a use
for it and got it out of the closet and loaded it up with CD's only to
find that its doing the same thing once again. The strange thing is
that some CD's seem to be affected worse than others. In fact some
CD's will play fine and others have skips many times in the same
places on the same particular disc when repeated plays are attempted,
while other discs are not recognized at all. There are random skips at
times on some CD's as well. I know that some CDR's could be a problem
with some older machines and so we are not attempting to play any of
those. I was hoping to note the particular CD, track, and time into
the recording and if there was failure repeatability, use that to
determine if my adjustments solve the problem but I don't know if this
method would work or not. Does anyone have any opinions on that? Could
some sections of a CD be harder for what I'm assuming to be a weak
laser to "see" than others? Can someone please explain this
phenomenon to me? I'm going to try to tweak this thing again but I
would just appreciate a better understanding of this. Thanks, Lenny
intermittently "skip". I did confirm this to be so and I subsequently
slightly increased the setting on the laser pot. The unit seemed to be
OK after that and I put it away for several months. I now have a use
for it and got it out of the closet and loaded it up with CD's only to
find that its doing the same thing once again. The strange thing is
that some CD's seem to be affected worse than others. In fact some
CD's will play fine and others have skips many times in the same
places on the same particular disc when repeated plays are attempted,
while other discs are not recognized at all. There are random skips at
times on some CD's as well. I know that some CDR's could be a problem
with some older machines and so we are not attempting to play any of
those. I was hoping to note the particular CD, track, and time into
the recording and if there was failure repeatability, use that to
determine if my adjustments solve the problem but I don't know if this
method would work or not. Does anyone have any opinions on that? Could
some sections of a CD be harder for what I'm assuming to be a weak
laser to "see" than others? Can someone please explain this
phenomenon to me? I'm going to try to tweak this thing again but I
would just appreciate a better understanding of this. Thanks, Lenny