strange problem with CD player

[fezz]

i have a phillips CD371 CD player, yesterday i decided to try and improve it my doing some basic mods to it (few new resistors, and replacing the wires) however now when the CD gets to track 11 on any track it plays for around 10 seconds then skips and tops. it will not play beyond 11. i think this may be because i didn't put the cable between the CD and DAC back properly. any ideas?

 

[subwo1]

Do you mean on any disc, it cannot play more than 10 seconds beyood the beginning of track 11? Or is that only on your test disc? Do you mean if you skip up to track 12, it plays that for only 10 seconds also?

 

[rtirion]

I had a similar problem when I "upgraded" an old Philips CD473 player.
In my case I found the wiring picking up more noise then the original. I did try to keep things as short as possible.
I rewired the player again. This time twisting all the individual wires and using ferrit beads wherever possible. I also kept all wires as far away possible from the transformer and the oscillator.
This meant using longer wires. Actually the same length as the original ones.
This solved the skipping issue in my case.

Hope this helps a little

 

[fezz]

thanks for the help. in the end it was much more basic - the cable that connects the lasor to the rest of the CD player was not properly placed so it blocked the laror from moving, making it stop when it reched track11 on my CD.

 

[Nelson Pass]

I saw this with an RCA player that I gave my mother-
in-law, and it turned out to be mechanical, requiring
that I physically move the laser mount past the sticking
point. It worked fine after that.

 

[mrfeedback]

Yeah, don't you hate it when your sincere gift to the mother of she who must be obeyed stuffs up ! 🙂

Regards, Eric.