The recent HIFI thread got me back into the bug.
Getting sick of the flat sounding PC in my workshop, and I don't want to spend £100 on a fancy sound card. Currently using a crappy hand me down Ariston Richer sounds special as my music source in the workshop but I do have a Marantz CD5400 I bought for £20 last year at a second hand shop.
The problem is all CDs keep skipping and jumping on it. I have opened it up and to my surprise found lots of hair and bits in the transport. I intend to clean all this out, (the transport is in bits at the moment) but apart from cleaning the lens is there anything else I should do while I am at it?
Internally the CD5400 is not that impressive, it uses a Sony transport (which is odd) and nothing strikes me as being special in it. The transformer is rather beefy and there are some fairly big capacitors in the output stage but they are not Elnas. It all looks rather cheap.
I also have a CD6000 OSE LE and that is a competently different item it has seperate output stages for each channel and Elna caps etc. That said I would like to get this Marantz back in use so what else can I do?
The transport on the Ariston works fine, and I have a feeling these were also Sony transports, if they fit could I simply swap the transport mechanisms over?
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I was actually reading that :). Cleaned it all up and put a bit of oil on the teeth. It is now at least playing CDs but it still took a couple of attempts to get it to recognise.
I am thinking of just ditching it, I can probably pick up a classic for next to nothing these days. I will see how it goes, its playing Blondie's greatest hits perfectly but then the CD is on good condition.
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The early cd lasers go blind after a few year use. Makes them more or less unfixable if cleaning the transport and lens does not work.
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I read some of it: gave up early on, and skipped to the conclusion. Subtle change at best, seems to be the outcome of much sweat:)
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It certainly has helped cleaning the lense, all the CDs that jumped now play perfectly but it is still a bit slow as if it is struggling.
This CD player was made from around 2004-2006 so it is not that old, but I have no idea how much it is has had. This is a post Philips design hence the Sony transport.
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You may have seen a similar thread of mine last week on a Teac CD player which jumped. Two runs of a cleaning disc plus blowing hard through the open drawer has cured it.
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Not read all that Robin will do, a cleaning disc might just do the trick :). There is a slight metallic smell from the unit too, but it seems to be from the exterior. I had a good look at the transformers and everything else and I couldn't see any signs of any electrical problems.
>> You may have seen a similar thread of mine last week on a Teac CD
>> player which jumped. Two runs of a cleaning disc plus blowing hard through the open
>> drawer has cured it.
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Surprised you are surprised about a Sony transport mechanism. Marantz is a Philips brand and the latter have had a tie up with Sony since the days of the development of the CD audio disk (a spin off from the Philips 12in Laservision system).
As usual Philips had good ideas but couldn't develop them properly, so asked Sony to do so. Sony did so in conjunction with blank media specialists Taiyo Yuden and the rest, as they say, is history. The Compact Audio Cassette and superb Video 2000 system were amongst other Philips inventions.
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It used to be a Philips brand but Marantz merged with Denon in around 2004 and is no longer apart of Philips.
All the old Marantz products used Philips transports but as soon as they merged they must have ditched them in favour of Sony ones.
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And Denon used to have an Ethernet cable scam:
usa.denon.com/us/Product/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?CatId=Accessories(DenonNA)&Pid=AKDL1(DenonNA)
Not sure if you can still buy this $500 cable.... but it had directional markings too :-)
Some "reviews":
www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Cable-Version/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM
:-)
Last edited by: rtj70 on Mon 4 Nov 13 at 17:33
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To a point analogue cables I do believe it does make a difference, I tend to use £10 cables which are made from OFC free copper and have much better shielding against RF frequencies than the cheaper ones.
However audiophile cables which are designed to carry digital signals such as CAT5 or HDMI leads are complete scam. A £5 HDMI cable with some RF shielding is more than enough. It would be quite easy to scientifically proof that £500 Ethernet cables are a scam too, I bet if you compared the packet loss to that £500 and a decent £5 shielded ethernet cable there would be the same.
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Trying to repair a CD player - help needed - Crankcase
