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Why is my CD player so slow?
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    Posted: 17 May 2016 at 6:49pm
I'm on my fourth CD player since 1986. Each has sounded better than the last. But the latest is so blasted slow. It takes a seeming eternity before the loading drawer opens, then another eon to read the CD before being ready to play. From what I read on the web this is not uncommon. Why?
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Originally posted by jazzcatlee jazzcatlee wrote:

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Because nobody makes a dedicated audio CD mechanism any more.
There's no money in it.


Edited by Chris Firth - 17 May 2016 at 9:42pm
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hmmm is it using a DVD drive mechanism? For smoothness and build quality those old Philips pro mechanisms and their custom variants take a lot of beating. My own CD player (10yrs old now) has a lousy, clunky mechanism compared to my early 90's beer money Technics or even a super smooth & fast Sony one I had in a little mini system. But it clearly has a better DAC than either of those. I get the impression that as the market for CD only players dwindled, then mechanisms were mostly really cheapo mass market things designed for dvd players/pc's etc.

EDIT: yeah in fact what Chris said ^^


Edited by DaveG - 17 May 2016 at 9:45pm
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...unless Leema are telling porkies my Antila 2s Eco has their own custom made mechanism and it is both swift and smooth.
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[/QUOTE]Because nobody makes a dedicated audio CD mechanism any more.[/QUOTE]

Maybe. But, right before the current one, I ordered and returned a Cambridge Audio Azur 851C. (Sounded fine but no better than the one being replaced.) The Cambridge was not slow at all. Maybe that model use an old stock transport.
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