An Issue with Discs Showing Up "Dirty" From My Marantz CD Changer...

dannnielll

And that is exactly what was suggested. .. that the inevitable degradation of plastic was causing decomposition,and you were seeing that. Lack of lubricant, accelerating it.  What prompted my and other contributors was your particular particular fascination with playlists,.. changing the order in which music is played . Once a multi disc player was the only technology available, but now with digital rather than selecting between 3 or 5 discs,,  it can be 10,000

IntelliVolume

I'll look it up.

IntelliVolume

My point -- once again -- is that I do not wish to move to another format of listening to music. So I either discover what is causing my changer to put black marks on the discs or I buy another one.

At any rate, I will probably just accept that something inside the changer is causing this, which means I'm back to square one.

IntelliVolume

In looking at disc rot research, it seems that this is not what my CD looked like when I viewed it -- it was more of some kind of layer of black "dust" that "stained" the playing surface, though it was easily wiped off.

IntelliVolume

Gibbsy,

Just sent you a PM regarding what's going on in this thread...we can take that discussion privately.

gibbsy

I have edited and deleted a few posts that were not conducive to the thread. That's as far as I am prepared to go.

Derek S-H

@IntelliVolume - this is a dedicated AV site, but it's also one that tends to veer towards current and new technology.

Your query is about "ancient" tech. And before you start getting annoyed with this description, I also support physical hardware and have no desire to move towards digital software either.

CD multiplayers are like CD recorders - they were once viable members of the Hi-Fi fraternity but have now been left behind by many. I recently purchased a secondhand CD recorder from Ebay, but I didn't see any point in posting a query about it on here as I knew it would get virtually zero responses, or suggestions that I move into the digital domain instead.

@mushii has already given you your possible options in his Post #19 and I'd suggest you go back and choose one to suit your needs. Another possibility is to accept that your changer has had a good life and look to replace it entirely. Alternatively, try posting your query on a website that specialises in vintage gear and see what they suggest?

Good luck.

IntelliVolume

I have since reported a post that was quite problematic, gibbsy; I don't think it was one that deserved to "slip under the radar."

gibbsy

I have dealt with it which I have explained to you in a PM. I am not going to take it any further. My next option is to lock the thread for further replies.

IntelliVolume

I'm seeing plenty of threads in this area of the forum focusing on CD players...is the question I asked somehow different just because I asked about a CHANGER mechanism? And how am I supposed to know, for 100-percent, that the CHANGER is what is causing the stains I'm seeing? Perhaps it is something that CD PLAYERS, in general, can do....how am I to know if I don't ASK?

It's still a two-channel hi-fi related query.

I'm glad you and everyone else immediately jumps to what I am going to "get annoyed" with; at any rate, if this tech is so "ancient," why are companies like Onkyo and Yamaha STILL selling changers (at least in the U.S.)?

I'm glad for you that YOU didn't want to ask a question about your second hand recorder in here...but it's almost as if you're suggesting I be "frightened" to do so because everyone else who has "moved on" would be "upset" about it -- again, the question I asked MAY have had something to do with CD PLAYER internals and nothing to do with the fact that it's a CHANGER unit. I just wanted to know if the black dust I'm seeing on the playing surface of discs is being caused by something the player/changer is doing, and what that might be. I just wanted to stick to THAT topic.

You keep throwing the term "vintage" around and now seem to be suggesting I look on a website that specializes in "vintage gear" -- but there are STILL manufacturers selling these items and still people buying them...look at these user reviews on Crutchfield:

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Am I making that up?

I just want to know what could be causing the marks I'm seeing on my discs...irrespective of whether I should have gotten into streaming a long time ago or not, according to popular opinion. Is there anything you can suggest in keeping with that request?