Thanks all from helping me fix a Krell CD-DSP !

[krellie]

I just wanted to thank this forum! After reading through some of the threads on this forum I was able to resurrect a Krell CD-DSP. The Philips CDM1 mk2 threads saved the day.

The player had become progressively less interested in reading discs. About 6 years ago the player basically didn't want to read anything and was resigned to closet duty. I was about to use the thing as a D/A converter but figured I would see if the transport could be replaced/fixed easily.

This forum was great. I cleaned the lens with just water (seemed to work well enough) and looked for poorly reflowed solder joints. I reheated a few of the joints. None were blatantly cracked but in more than a few cases it was clear the solder was not wetting on some of the through hole components.

I reassembled the who setup and much to my surprise it was happy reading a standard CD! It didn't like the first few burned discs I tried. I can't say that I'm surprised given the age of the machine and the potential issues of old players and CD-Rs. I reburned one of the burned discs at 4x speed. That one did play without error.

Without this forum I wouldn't have known where to even start. Thanks all!