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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: How Well Shall a CD Transport "Track" a CD?
Post Subject: Reflectivity is a real issuePosted by rowuk on: 10/15/2016
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Some drives do not get along with certain reflective surfaces. I had a Philips that played just about everything. Then I bought a Yamaha and all of the "gold" colored CDs would not play. I think that your dirt issue is not the real problem. If the CD was made on a writer instead of from a stamp, it could be the brand of the blank.
 Paul S wrote:
A while back (I thought) I was having trouble with my Accustic Arts Drive 1 CD transport. It was skipping and messing up on CDs I wanted to hear. Since I normally listen to LPs, it took me a while to dedicate the time and pay attention to exactly how the transport was messing up. It turned out that some CDs worked OK, and some did not.  Then I remembered that the CDs that were not working now on the AA transport had all been dragged by me out to the car and used there in the car CD player. When I carefully cleaned the problem CDs, most of the problems with the AA transport went away, but some of the messed-up CDs still would not play well on the AA transport. They all played "fine" in the car.  Now my question is, why will the "crappy" car CD player "track" dirty CDs "better" than the Accustic Arts Drive 1?

Add this to the pile of the Mysteries of Hi-Fi.

Paul S

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