Any skipping issues with the Koala tube CD player?

I was curious reading your post so I did a search for your CD player and got some images. Assuming I was looking at the same player you have, the transport looks very easy to replace. Maybe you can buy the transport and install it yourself.

One other thing you can try is moving the remote far away from the CD player. Sometimes, the remote can break in such a way as to send commands without you pushing any buttons. If the player is getting a false input for something like a seek, you can definitely mistake that for a skip. I thought the transport in my Wadia was going bad when the tray kept opening and closing by itself. It turned out to be the remote.

Thanks for your message Zd542. I found that it was not due to the remote (testing after removing the batteries of the remote).
I am not a person who can even do soldering, if that's needed; replacing the transport by myself seems close to impossible.

Can't Hudson Audio in NJ help you? Call Tom Hills.

One very common reason a CD player will skip is the laser sled runs into a piece of the factory lubricant that has dried up and hardened on the rails the laser travels on

When the sled hits the dry spot it stalls briefly losing lock with the CD data stream and skipping until it can move past the dry spot and regain lock on the CD’s info

If you can see the rails ... wipe them clean and apply a lite coat of white lithium
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I wasn't suggesting that you soldier anything. If that's the case, have someone else do it. I only meant to change it if it has a connector that plugs into the board.