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From: kissell@spar.UUCP (Kevin Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Reliability of Sony CD Players (SUMMARY)
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:33:37 EST
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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
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