Chris Rist
New Member
Do excuse my lack of experience,
I just fixed up an old CD player (Technics Sl-P101) thats been sitting in my parents house unused. Fixes were a new belt and some lubrication. Played a few disks and I'm fairly happy with the sound. However briefly (And I only mean briefly) the audio on the left channel begins to crackle and distort very abruptly, it doesn't cut off completely but get scratchy (like the noise of a phone cartridge making tracking errors). The crackling doesn't last long, about a few seconds at a time. And it sometimes doesn't do it all. Which is rather odd for me. I was wondering if someone would might have a clue on whether this issue is with the lenses (and weather it needs cleaning) or if it's much more in depth. I do not have any optical output to test whether it's a digital or analog issue
Would appreciate it. Thanks.
I just fixed up an old CD player (Technics Sl-P101) thats been sitting in my parents house unused. Fixes were a new belt and some lubrication. Played a few disks and I'm fairly happy with the sound. However briefly (And I only mean briefly) the audio on the left channel begins to crackle and distort very abruptly, it doesn't cut off completely but get scratchy (like the noise of a phone cartridge making tracking errors). The crackling doesn't last long, about a few seconds at a time. And it sometimes doesn't do it all. Which is rather odd for me. I was wondering if someone would might have a clue on whether this issue is with the lenses (and weather it needs cleaning) or if it's much more in depth. I do not have any optical output to test whether it's a digital or analog issue
Would appreciate it. Thanks.