Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!Glacier!decwrl!spar!kissell From: kissell@spar.UUCP (Kevin Kissell) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Reliability of Sony CD Players (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <628@spar.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:33:37 EST Article-I.D.: spar.628 Posted: Mon Oct 28 21:33:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:19:16 EST References: <663@hou2a.UUCP> <1629@druil.UUCP> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 19 I too have had some skipping problems with my CDP-302. It takes four or five hours of continuous operation, but at some point something overheats and the tracking logic goes bonkers. A friend of mine who recently bought a CDP-70 has observed the same phenomenon with his unit. Like one of the respondents in the summary, I had at first blamed the heat output from the Carver Reciever below (stay tuned for my upcoming Carver flame), but even after putting some more air space between units and ducting the hot air away from the Sony's vents, I find it still flakes out after a while. Cycling power quickly has no effect, and the problem seems not to be motor heat - I experimentally left the CD player idle under power for an hour or so after I caught it skipping, and it still started skipping almost at once. Sigh. Kevin D. Kissell Fairchild Advanced Processor Division uucp: {ihnp4 decvax}!decwrl!\ >spar!kissell {ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/