I got a Krell KAV300 cd player recently, cheap, from the first generation (1997?).
It uses a Teac VRDS drive. It looks familiar to me, since a friend of mine had a T1 drive, with the green plastic clamb (I use to compete with him because I had the VRDS 10 SE, which had a bronze clamb).
Whatever, my player refuses to play most of my CD's, regular and CD-R's. It plays some of them, both formats. But many times it tries to initialize but couldn't. Some of them work fine.
I guess that Krell doesn't make any discount on their cheaper stuff, I mean for repair. I don't want to spend too much money, it's my 'second' player, I went SACD, but wanted always some Krell gear as a secondary system.
Does anybody know if it would be only the laser to replace? Or the complete drive
? EXPENSIVE. Could it be the controller board (original Teac board, only the case, converter and Power supply are Krell).
If somebody knows this, please help.
Thanks.
It uses a Teac VRDS drive. It looks familiar to me, since a friend of mine had a T1 drive, with the green plastic clamb (I use to compete with him because I had the VRDS 10 SE, which had a bronze clamb).
Whatever, my player refuses to play most of my CD's, regular and CD-R's. It plays some of them, both formats. But many times it tries to initialize but couldn't. Some of them work fine.
I guess that Krell doesn't make any discount on their cheaper stuff, I mean for repair. I don't want to spend too much money, it's my 'second' player, I went SACD, but wanted always some Krell gear as a secondary system.
Does anybody know if it would be only the laser to replace? Or the complete drive
? EXPENSIVE. Could it be the controller board (original Teac board, only the case, converter and Power supply are Krell).If somebody knows this, please help.
Thanks.