It produces static, & sometimes won’t play, giving an “ER” (I assume this means “Error”) reading on the display.
This has happened since I moved it to another room, to avoid bothering my Father with my music.
Moving it back is a no-go.
How do I fix this?
Suggestions?
Please do not tell me how much I need to switch to an Ipod.
I am not a Luddite. I just love the look of the Replca Radios from Crosley. And, I don’t know how to work an Ipod. Never even held one in my hand, nor gotten a good look at one, & have nobody to teach me anyway.
Seriously, though, have you looked at the lens inside the CD player? Maybe it got some dust or something on it during the move? You could try cleaning it off with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol.
You could wash your CD’s that you are having problems with. My young daughters get our DVD’s filthy all the time and they skip and freeze. I just hand wash them with a drop of dishwashing soap and they almost always do fine after that.
IIRC, our (ancient! new in 1992) JVC mini stereo’s CD player has a wee little brushy thing right upstream of the the lens assembly, presumably there to catch the dusty bits before they fall off on the lens. I vaguely remember having had luck making the player happier by using canned air, carefully, to de-dust the brushy thing.
I also use a commercial CD-player cleaner disc every few years. It’s a trip - while it’s doing its cleaning thing, a young lady with a thick Joisey accent tells you what it’s doing and how great everything will be when it’s done. It definitely helps.
However, I cannot examine the brushy thing in question nor refresh my memory about the nice lady’s accent, because OUR player refuses to open. It just makes an angry noise when you press the “open” button.
Well, I don’t have any solutions, but I can suggest some possible problems.
Did you bang the unit into anything during the move? The read mechanism may have got jarred out of place. I can’t see why just moving it would mess up the CD player.
Has the player ever done it before? It may just be wearing out due to age.
Does it happen on factory-pressed discs, or just CD-Rs? If this is the case, the laser isn’t calibrated to read CD-Rs. It was well into this century before that became the norm. Older players may play them, or not, or skip, or not be able to find the start of a track.
Other than that, sorry, I’ve got nothing. But maybe one of these is a start.
ISTR that some CD players have tracking lasers along with the “reading” lasers.
If one of those tracking lasers dies you’re in bad shape. How old is this unit?
Have you considered getting a quote for repairing it. There are only a few CD transport manufacturers and most transports are very inexpensive so repair would only entail replacement of the transport unit.
Not all HiFi repair shops cost an arm and a leg.
As a guide, I have just had my Electrocompaniet EC4.7 preamp overhauled, volume control replaced, power supply upgraded (an official Electrocompaniet upgrade kit, sourced from Norway and not cheap). The cost for the lot was £404, the bulk of which was the upgrade kit and motorised (upgraded) volume control, import duty and VAT.
The actual work was very reasonable.
I have used the same engineer previously to refurbish my previous Quad amplifiers and found them extremely good and reasonably priced.
I would wager that a replacement transport would be a very small fraction of this sort of cost and well worth it if you particularly wish to retain the equipment you are using.
Check the connections and the CD mech’s suspension. Did you tie down the CD player when you moved it? Untie it (Seeburg won’t run tied down.)?
Helpful Hint:
First Law of Mechanicdom: You have to take something completely apart in order to understand why, you didn’t have to take it completely apart.
Replace it if you convinced it’s not a connection but the player. You could clean the mechanics (Phillips CDM-nn? Rowe sells a kit.) but if CD mech is more of a consumable then find another player that fits in the space. Pioneer makes a kit so you could even use an iPod!