Hi everyone,
I recently acquired a Beogram CD 5500 player. After a few repairs to the DIN cable, which did not appear to be original (short circuit on the data wire), I also replaced infamous cap C2103. The player "works," except for reading issues:
The CD starts playing normally without any rubbing noise, the number of tracks is displayed, but the first tracks are choppy and skipping a lot. The tracking seems to try to reposition itself a lot. However, as soon as the middle of the CD is reached, there are no more reading issues.
What are the different things to test, and especially how to check:
- The press plate seems unlikely: it doesn't rub against anything but seems to vibrate a lot; even when I manually re-center it to reduce vibrations, problem persists Is the motor not spinning fast enough?
- Is the optical block not following the movement well in the center of the CD?
- The CDM block's suspension? Where can I find replacements, or did anyone try to 3D print them?
- The motor's suspension?
- Other ideas ?
