I have a Philips CD 880 which I purchased in the 80's and had it modified by Soloist Audio and have enjoyed the machine all these years, until the last year. It stopped playing CD's altogether. The mechanism would open and it would spin, but no sound or no control. I am not a tech as you can tell. I sent the player to Atlas Audio in Pittsburgh and they claimed they could fix it and they returned it in a month. It worked great for one weekend, then stopped again.
I sent it back to them and they spent another 3 months trying to figure out what to do. They said it was repaired and sent it back to me a second time. In the process of shipping it to me the second time the player got "dented" on the rear of the chassis and when I plugged it in, it did not work at all. I got Fedex involved since they insured it and they sent it back to Atlas and gave them 50% of the insurance money. Again they kept the player a couple more months and could not fix it. They finally returned...