Fixing CD Players
Recently i bought a CD player listed as broken on eBay, on it arriving, it read cd’s and played but the audio was broken up, distorted and the cd was skipping.
After some consideration i decided it could be the laser assembly, so i attempted to swap the transport with my other Sony CDP, alas i was foiled as the two transports are not interchangeable. However, the laser assembly is, so i did that.
Success i thought – except it wouldn’t read any cds, knowing this was a good laser, i did a bit of searching about and all i needed to do was adjust the laser focus by turning a small pot on the side of the assembly.
In the picture below under the large red letter ‘L’ is the adjustment pot, making minute adjustments to this and re-testing enabled me to fix the CDP back to full working order. Annoyingly i could have done this with the original laser assembly, and saved myself the bother of swapping them all about.
So theres your tip, if your CDP has started skipping or not reading cd’s, try adjusting the laser – if you’re resigned to getting rid of it anyway, you’ve got nothing to lose.
