Nice video, I'm trying to fix a discman from 2000 that has problems reading some CDs, I tweaked the pot a bit and it works for most CDs, but there is one cd that seems to never work correctly, but the CD it's fine bc I tried it in other players, so I don't know if the CD is weird in general or the laser is beyond repair at this point
Is the non-working CD an MP3 CD? The Discman in this video played every redbook audio CD I tried with it (even if scratched heavily), but it wouldn't work with any of the CD-Rs I burned.
@@gpr-garwoodprecisionrepair6256 it's a regular music CD, Sgt. Pepper's to be precise lol, the audio keeps stuttering and sometimes won't even play at all, there are other CDs that stutter a bit then it goes back to play normally. I haven't check the spin motor, but if it works with most CDs then I don't think that's the issue. The pot settings I tried where 2.3-3.0 kohm, anything beyond 3.0k makes the laser to not recognize any CD so I just sticked with 2.5k My guess is that it may be some manufacturing thing with the CDs, they play OK with most modern players but they have issues with very old players, that, or as I said before, the laser is very old at this point
@@gpr-garwoodprecisionrepair6256 pretty weird that it doesn't work with CD-R, did you make sure that you burned them as audio and not files? The discman I have can play CDR with no problem, and it's from around the same year
@@richieMP118 It refused to play a few MP3 CDs back to back, so I slow-burned an audio CD to a Verbatim Life Series CD-R and still had no luck - even though it plays really scratched up discs. No clue why.
Nice video, I'm trying to fix a discman from 2000 that has problems reading some CDs, I tweaked the pot a bit and it works for most CDs, but there is one cd that seems to never work correctly, but the CD it's fine bc I tried it in other players, so I don't know if the CD is weird in general or the laser is beyond repair at this point
Is the non-working CD an MP3 CD? The Discman in this video played every redbook audio CD I tried with it (even if scratched heavily), but it wouldn't work with any of the CD-Rs I burned.
@@gpr-garwoodprecisionrepair6256 it's a regular music CD, Sgt. Pepper's to be precise lol, the audio keeps stuttering and sometimes won't even play at all, there are other CDs that stutter a bit then it goes back to play normally. I haven't check the spin motor, but if it works with most CDs then I don't think that's the issue. The pot settings I tried where 2.3-3.0 kohm, anything beyond 3.0k makes the laser to not recognize any CD so I just sticked with 2.5k
My guess is that it may be some manufacturing thing with the CDs, they play OK with most modern players but they have issues with very old players, that, or as I said before, the laser is very old at this point
@@gpr-garwoodprecisionrepair6256 pretty weird that it doesn't work with CD-R, did you make sure that you burned them as audio and not files? The discman I have can play CDR with no problem, and it's from around the same year
@@richieMP118 It refused to play a few MP3 CDs back to back, so I slow-burned an audio CD to a Verbatim Life Series CD-R and still had no luck - even though it plays really scratched up discs. No clue why.