Any ideas?? ARC CD 3 doesn't work

Bifwynne,
Excellent point!

Rsjm80 ... if you get a chance to ask ARC to "freshen up" your CDP, please let us know what if anything ARC recommends. I suspect that if anything, they might just replace some old electrolytic caps.

I think your CDP is solid state, so tubes should not be an issue. Not much else to go bad.

The only other part that could get expensive is the Phillips transport (about $500), but frankly, I've never read or heard that one has gone bad. It's a pretty robust drive.

Will let you know what they say. They were closed for the Thanksgiving weekend when I wrote and asked so, I'm just waiting to hear back but, so far as reported it sounds like all else is up to snuff and will be put back to proper specs.

So what the story? Just a cap or did ARC prophylactically replace some other parts that were near the end of their life span??

Funny you should ask, I just heard from ARC yesterday that the CD 3 is ready to come home (yeah!!). Everything else was fine but... they did have to replace 5 caps in the power supply and did just some maintainence lubing the transport and also replaced the slide door as it had gotten scratched. A Venom Defender will be here today or tomorrow as it would seem obvious that I had a spike that caused the failure. I'll sure be glad when it gets home again. Thank you for your suggestions and your input.