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CD problem with transport. Please help

I have a Talk Thunder CDP3.1b and am enjoying it but it recently started doing something odd. At 2 to 10 seconds into the beginning of a disc the transport will skip back to the begining of the disc and start over. It may do this once, twice and sometimes three times and then play the entire disc without further problems. What could be the culprit of this quirk? If it were the laser failing wouldn't the cd's played skip at random throughout a disc, any disc. I find that once the player has successfully gone through the first 10 seconds or so that the problem does not happen further. Could it be because my player is on cones? I hope anyone can help with this. I am thinking there may be something like a hair stuck in the works by the beginning of a cd. As it passes past 10 or so seconds there is no apparent problem. Please help.
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mitchb
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czbbcl
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Well of course it will get worse with continued use. If something is binding and putting excess load on the motor eventually it is going to fail which is why it needs to be addressed now rather than later. It is not going to heal itself.

Chuck
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I was able to bring the player to a Sony repair shop as the transport is a Sony and this shop would have access to Sony parts. This shop specializes in audio repair so I feel comfortable.
saki70
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Czbbcl ; "Eventualy" is true . Maybe I wasn't as descriptive as I should've been !
I am refering to the problem getting continually worse in a relatively short time period of just a couple of hours . According to the repair facility it was not something that could have been addressed early on with any type of repair . This has happened more than once ! Luckily all were under warranty !

Good luck Mitchb .
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My player needs a new transport as so many things are apparently wrong with what's there now. The tech, and
I beleive him, said it would be the same cost wise just to replace the entire transport. To my luck they are available still and my player will be back in a week or two.
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At a relatively inexpensive cost I got my player fixed and it works better than it did when it was new. The transport was basically replaced with new properly functioning parts and now that my recently repaired preamp is burning in it sounds quite nice. When I first got back the pre I thought it was improperly done but it was done right. It required burn in as at first the sound was horrible. I tried playing with cables but could not get good sound. Finally after several days my system is sounding sweet. Now if only my wife and daughter would let me listen I'd be all set. Our new place is smaller and whatever electrical device is on upstairs or downstairs is heard throughout the house. Therefore if the girls are watching TV then I'm delogated to the bedroom where I have a little Tivoli "Works" set up and perhaps even better or at least different Panasonic microsystem which impresses on each listen. The Tivoli is certainly nothing to sneeze at in terms of what it is. A small radio.I have the model two , subwoofer and cdp by Tivoli which makes for a nice little set up. The Panasonic is more open and dynamic but it is quite a bit larger than the Tivoli. Much more power as well. The Tivoli has a much more warm rich sound to it where the Panasonic microsystem has some "balls"to it.
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