I pulled a CDP-305M out of the cellar of my uncle who recently passed away thing hasn't been touched in probably close to 30 years plugged it in, loaded it with some crap I had flying about and it spun up and worked beautifully. Absolutely astonishing. Like 30 years haven't passed at all I expected some minor work I'd have to do like replace some rubber bands or something, similar to the stuff I had to do with old tape decks of my grandpa or our old Thorens TT, but no nothing needed to be done at all. Guess the thing just doesn't even use anything that can really deteriorate over time like rubber bands or maybe because "It's a Sony"
In your opinion, is there any sound quality difference between the five-disc changer and the ES deck? Or does it have to do with the quality of the decks?
You know seriously I haven't been able to hear much of any difference between the 2, even on really good mastered CDs. The ES unit is a much better build, and the unit weighs in at about 50lbs. It has solid copper plating inside the cabinet, and single point ground points, ect. This is supposed to reduce noise generated by multi point ground points causing small currents to flow around the chassis. But to my ears, through a fairly good pair of speakers (Altec Lansing) and a tube amplifier I really don't hear much difference if any. The ES deck will generally handle scratched disks better than my 200 disk changer, and those smudges that were affecting this one when I tried to play track 9 probably wouldn't have affected it at all. So when that 1 disk that was cutting out at 4 seconds in also wouldn't play on my ES deck I knew the disk was at fault, as the ES unit is not normally affected by small errors, but a massive error like is on that disk is unrecoverable on anything. Same with vibration. The ES deck could play through an earthquake, but lesser players will skip at the slightest of jolts.
+fred Flinstone No the variac is not an isolated type. It is however plugged into an isolation transformer under the bench. In the video test bench safety I show the unit.
+Audioquest56 I bought that one NEW from Panasonic when they had a fire sale on. 100.00CDN new in the box. That is what dealers paid, and they dealers sold them for 1K +
I have a pioneer 5 disc cd/DVD player When trying to open the tray opens but then closes right away. Will not stay open enough to load disc into player. Please advise on how to fix
Hi, I have a SONY CDP-C545 Do you have the spare part for sale ? I am looking for the white rounded-teeth-gear ? I can send the photo what's it look like ? Thanks.
I noticed on these Sony models, a sound (like a whistle) when it's reading the TOC. I noticed too that some discs make that sound while playing and I figured out that the clamp doesn't fix the disc in the motor spindle correctly. Solution: clamp has a 2mm hole to fix the motor axis into, so make that 2mm hole passant and the clamp will fix perfectly in the motor spindle and good bye to that whistle noise because it will attach the disc with more strenght.
I have a CDP-335 that sometimes makes a whistling sound while playing disks and will then start skipping around or even stop playing the disk all together. Can you elaborate on making the 2mm hole passant? I'm not sure what that means.
Any suggestions as to why the laser assembly is hitting the rotating disk tray as it goes up? It's not ocuring on every occasion, but does cause disk try to snap back and cd's getting scratched.
Thanks for you very prompt response. It's only doing this every 3-4 times and then does it for several times and goes back to being OK. The edge of the round disk pick up grabs the forward edge of the disk tray which then 'snaps' back forcefully. This causes disk to get picked up at an awkward angle and then gets scratched.
@@neilcrompton3488 Labels will unbalance the CD. This over time can make the motor bearing wear out. Not something you want to do. For all those that bought CD Stompers and labels. Well there is a sucker born every minute.
+Donald Ellett Not only Maxell, but those were the cheapest good disks at the time. At least I knew what I was getting, whereas other companies had dodgy quality.
I have inherited my grandmothers 5 disc Sony CDP-C315. That I'd grown up with and cherish. It was working for a few days, now it doesn't read disc's. I took the player apart and seen that once it loaded a CD it wouldn't spin, and would read no disc. Does anyone have any knowledge or information that could help me? I thought maybe it was the eye not reading the disc. With the disc not spinning, I don't think the eye would be the problem.
Gerrit_ C 99% it’s the belt. Very common on Sony decks. They’re readily available on eBay and if you’re able to open it up then I’m sure you’ll be able to find and replace it. Or could be the motor that drives the cd spinner. That’s what was wrong with my deck that I got from a friend.
