Full Range of Sony CD Laser Pick Ups (with photos)

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The KSS-272A is not available recently since the SONY company stop supplying this
however, we try all the time.
I will let you know once there is any news about it


Does any one want the KSS-151A? it is also hot sale
 

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Hi all,
my Sony CDP i bought about 8 years ago came with KSS213D lens unit.
The agent replaced it for me with a KSS213DH, as the first one was scratched as they said, although they gave me the old one in a box for another model : KSM213DHAP.

I am very confused asking here and there and reading threads in forums about other models replacement for those 3 models I experienced that my CDP would accept.

I read in a thread here that someone replaced several models of the same family "KSS-213"and they worked good but also some of them let his CDP read other formats of CD-R which his CD Player didn't read before with other models of the same family?


what's the truth about reading different formats depending on lens unit models - and which lens model can replace any of the above models?

any one can help?

Thanks


PS. I googled the KSS213D replacement, but didn't find any specifications in the results nor for any other model; found one result from Brazilian website though wrote KSS213D mp3..




Cheaplow I know ur post was long ago but just for reference concerning KSS 151A - i found it while googling the KSS lenses here:

http://www.edxelectronics.com/PartsIndex/PartsIndexPage73-37.aspx
 
#55
DragonMaster,
As I understand from you now that reading more formats of CD-R "like mp3 instead of cda in Audio Cds" has to do more with laser strength and since power ...

So Power related to the laser unit itself u mean or related to the CDP power?or both?


I guess i didn't get it totally right from the thread:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59274&goto=nextnewest

i checked again & I found answers from you too 😉 but i think the laser power issue was missing as it was understandable between all users except primitive me :xeye:
 
#56
Hi,

it doesn't mean the player will read MP3s. A CD player made for CD Audio will only read CDs and CD-Rs with CD Audio tracks on them.

The fact is, the person had problems with some brands of CD-Rs. Some brands of CD-Rs take more laser power to read than others because of the material used by the disc manufacturer.

If a laser gets weak enough due to usage, it will stop reading the discs that need more power to read first, and it will get worse with time.

A brand new KSS-213, no matter the revision, should read every discs properly, but if it's getting old, problems will start to appear, with some discs, and especially with certain CD-R material.
 
#57
Thanks so much DragonMaster for clarifying the situation to me and above all ur quick reply
My hope went far i guess by understanding the situation wrongly.

As for that:

DragonMaster said:
Hi,

it doesn't mean the player will read MP3s. A CD player made for CD Audio will only read CDs and CD-Rs with CD Audio tracks on them.
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When i put a CD-R with mp3 tracks in my player it reads it as one track of circa 70 min and the track plays too but no sound to hear.

Is there any way to make my CDP, that reads CD Audio read CD-Rs with mp3 formats on them without the connecting help of external media "mp3player, ipod..etc"? :bigeyes:

I just don't want to have to through it with it's nice 3CD changer and at the same time don't like it to stay dead in my room..while it's condition is almost new and performance and sound is pleasant for me too... :bawling:

any ideas you can help me with?

Lots of Thanks again
 
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When i put a CD-R with mp3 tracks in my player it reads it as one track of circa 70 min and the track plays too but no sound to hear.
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A CD audio player will always see a data disc as one large blank track, no matter what there's on it.

MP3 is simply too different from CD Audio to be able to read it with a CD audio player, and there's no solution. You can find some cheap DVD changers that can read MP3 though.
 
#59
you mean i can find cheap DVD changers and replace them with the audio changers I have inside my hi fi?

I tried to find a separate single mp3/dvd players that could lie on my Hi Fi deck in Radio shack and Sony & I found them, but I have to buy them with the other components ( radio, DVD & speakers).

I tried to find mp3Discman with remote too though it's a solution which will treat my HiFi as speakers only, but seems like the market here doesnt support adding solutions other than buying a whole new mashine with it's components.

But if u say it works I guess I'll keep searching maybe within no name dvd's or even second hand DVD changers to take the parts from and use it for my CDP.

When i called sony agent to ask them to do a modify for my hi fi so it can read mp3 they told me that they used to do this modify until 3 years ago, but as my hi fi is old model Sony stopped to do that modify to it.

And when i asked him why sony stopped he said that it is because new models every year designed with new technology & those sony want to focus on..

So it's sony's policy to stop doing the modify suddenly 🙁 I wish i was awaken few years before.., but that should mean there are some jobs they used to do to modify the Hi Fi - it can't be impossible, no?

since then I'm searching to know more about that as I went into discussions with friends & colleagues...& some of them told me:
reading mp3 formats hasn't to do with the lens but with the chip "board"that's accompanied with it...others strengthened on speed..

I know u are the experts & you have the knowledge - I can't imagine it's impossible to do something about it.

what do u think?
 
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