thanks to Audiogon


Good evening. I’m still new to Audiogon and have yet to make any deals here but in the future I won’t hesitate to strike a good one up. I took delivery of a package this afternoon instead of taking a long drive I went ahead and trusted someone from *****’s list and may of gotten burned. I’m not naive but the guy sounded honest and all that, and it was’t a large transaction. Any more and a red light would of went on. Seller said low mileage and works perfectly which appears to be true its a solid 10 for looks, so is remote (in fact its still in plastic). A 10 in looks but a big fat 0 in performance its malfunctioning. Maybe its just a sign to say I’m starting to have too many Marantz disc player’s already. They do seem to be becoming a bit of an audio video weakness for me.

I would not of started a new topic to give thanks more that I was itching to ask if someone might have a loose diagnosis for symptoms. It powers up seeming like business as usual it accepts the shiny little disc then makes some usual subtle internal sounds after it closes announcing its wakening to do some work. instead of going to work the sounds pause then it suddenly spits the CD back out. Ive tried a few different ones, production wise and burns. Same result it spits them all back out.
meerzistar
The only thing I can suggest is unplugging the player for a short time, plugging it back in and let it boot up for a minute or two before trying to play a disc.
It doesn’t have a transport screw in does it? Maybe on the bottom of the unit?

Also, maybe the seller left a CD inside the unit, (I actually did that once on a player I sold and another that I had purchased) and it has dislodged and is fouling the mechanism. Open up the unit to make sure.
I think the laser is burned out and that's why it is not reading the disc.  Like light bulbs they eventually do burn out.  I had to replace mine on a Meridian cdp once.