babies suck i hate them.
The first review goes like this...
The reason I quoted it was that (assuming it was an honest review, which it
Aha! So does this imply that they were always / are now part of Fender ?
I don't remember the poster praising rabbit ears over _any_ indoor
You know this as fact?
read the fucking repair faq website:
Nobody here's stopping you from eating yourself to death you little spic
So... you were putzing around with your browser and saw some "green
correct these errors, provided that the number of errors within a single
I'd say the CD player doesn't like the disc then.
Overall poor reflectivity of the CD (and thus a reduced contrast and
Since the identity of your CD is apparently a secret, we have the option
I'll second all that the others above have said, and agree with Geoff here.
Hi, Geoff!"geoff" <geoff@nospam-paf.co.nz> wrote in message
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EADGBE wrote:
This is the ONLY disc I own that this Magnavox won't recognize. It's
as if the player doesn't like the disc or something.
I'd say the CD player doesn't like the disc then.
The disc may be faulty in a way that matters to that player , but
possibly not others. You get that...
geoff
I'll second all that the others above have said, and agree with Geoff
here. It's not at all unusual to see players that simply won't play - or
have a lot of trouble playing - just one or two discs out of an owner's
collection. I have had them send in players for repair with an example
disc, and they are quite right, it won't play it, and of course, they have
always "tried the disc in the neighbour's machine, and it's fine !"
But if the player is trouble free with every other disc that you - and
they - put in it, including 'official' test discs with deliberate errors
for checking servo performance etc, what can you do ? You can never see
anything wrong with the eye pattern on such players, and I've even tried
replacement lasers, without altering the symptoms a jot, so I think that
it must be a case of too many errors for the player to correct, but who
can tell ...
As you surmise, and Geoff says, the CD player just doesn't like the disc
then
You know, I've just had a thought. Long long time ago, I had a Pioneer
that had playability problems just on certain discs. It's very very rare
for Pioneers to suffer a bad laser, and the early ones are unpleasant to
replace because of the diffraction grid adjustment that has to be done. I
was loathe to suspect the laser, so I gave Pioneer Technical a call.
In those days, they had the best guys in Tech Support that you could ever
wish for (they're actually still there, but a lot more difficult to get to
talk to now). Anyways, I asked them about this problem, and they pointed
me at the rubber deck suspensions, saying that the problem was caused by
age, and them having collapsed some. As you might imagine, I was sceptical
about this, but I ordered a set and fitted them, and lo! it cured it
completely. I can only assume that with little or no suspension left, if a
slightly eccentric or off balance disc was put in, instead of the whole
deck being able to freely 'wobble', with the deck touching the
sub-chassis, vibration was instead transferred to the lens suspension,
making this vibrate at high speed.
Given the age of the player in question, might be worth a look at ??
Arfa
Yep. I have one from that series, and it chokes on many extended-length"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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EADGBE wrote:
This is the ONLY disc I own that this Magnavox won't recognize. It's
as if the player doesn't like the disc or something.
I'd say the CD player doesn't like the disc then.
The disc may be faulty in a way that matters to that player , but
possibly not others. You get that...
geoff
I'll second all that the others above have said, and agree with Geoff
here. It's not at all unusual to see players that simply won't play - or
have a lot of trouble playing - just one or two discs out of an owner's
collection. I have had them send in players for repair with an example
disc, and they are quite right, it won't play it, and of course, they have
always "tried the disc in the neighbour's machine, and it's fine !"
But if the player is trouble free with every other disc that you - and
they - put in it, including 'official' test discs with deliberate errors
for checking servo performance etc, what can you do ? You can never see
anything wrong with the eye pattern on such players, and I've even tried
replacement lasers, without altering the symptoms a jot, so I think that
it must be a case of too many errors for the player to correct, but who
can tell ...
As you surmise, and Geoff says, the CD player just doesn't like the disc
then
You know, I've just had a thought. Long long time ago, I had a Pioneer
that had playability problems just on certain discs. It's very very rare
for Pioneers to suffer a bad laser, and the early ones are unpleasant to
replace because of the diffraction grid adjustment that has to be done. I
was loathe to suspect the laser, so I gave Pioneer Technical a call.
In those days, they had the best guys in Tech Support that you could ever
wish for (they're actually still there, but a lot more difficult to get to
talk to now). Anyways, I asked them about this problem, and they pointed
me at the rubber deck suspensions, saying that the problem was caused by
age, and them having collapsed some. As you might imagine, I was sceptical
about this, but I ordered a set and fitted them, and lo! it cured it
completely. I can only assume that with little or no suspension left, if a
slightly eccentric or off balance disc was put in, instead of the whole
deck being able to freely 'wobble', with the deck touching the
sub-chassis, vibration was instead transferred to the lens suspension,
making this vibrate at high speed.
Given the age of the player in question, might be worth a look at ??
Arfa
Hi, Geoff!
The problem with the insulators was just that the disc would "barely" scrape
while trying to play. It was indeed a common problem; replaced many of them.
Sometimes the drive IC would even brown the circuit board as a result.
To the OP regarding the one disc that would not play: try cleaning the disc
itself - sometimes that helps - or perhaps the store you bought it from
would let you try another copy.
As another poster suggested, cleaning the laser lens is certainly worth a
try.
Magnavox (Philips) players were sometimes picky about discs, with nothing
that could really be done about it. When people would complain, the standard
response was, "the disc is out-of-spec, not our problem". A good example of
this was the CD-63 series having problems with discs longer than 74 minutes.
An option is to dupe it to a good quality CD-R. But if the laser is a bit