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BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« on: 18 October 2006, 07:28:51 »
I got the double din BOSE CD player. For some reason its being quirky and only plays CDS when it wants to. I keep getting a "CD ERROR".

Tried a CD lens cleaning On it multiple times which fixes the problem for about a day.

Ideas?
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #1 on: 18 October 2006, 11:42:46 »
Just a thought, but if your playing copied CD's (bought originally & copied for your own use of course); burn them at the slowest speed possible, older players struggle to play copies burnt at high speeds.
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #2 on: 18 October 2006, 20:39:19 »
been through this before, I think it was with a user of the yahoo groups omega forum ... basically the player is bloody picky about what CDR's it will work with. I use black-bottomed discs, burnt at 16X and they are OK if burnt on a Plextor drive ... burn the same discs at the same speed on a lite-on drive and it starts having trouble again ...  ::)

However if it's giving this sort of error on an original CD that has no scratches, then it might be dying ...
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #3 on: 19 October 2006, 03:06:19 »
I get it on both. I get it with cdr's its never had problems playing. Its strange.
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #4 on: 20 October 2006, 14:58:28 »
Marks DTM (who else!) has the contact details for a guy who can do repairs on these things at a very reasonable rate.

It does sound like the laser pickup needs replacing (not that I really know much about them!)
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #5 on: 20 October 2006, 15:27:57 »
Long way to send it though, he's in the US!
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #6 on: 20 October 2006, 23:45:51 »
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Long way to send it though, he's in the US!

YUP!

Um so its the lasser. Oh well. Looks like when i get some money together im going to have to buy a new CD player  :-?
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #7 on: 21 October 2006, 12:26:04 »
bear in mind though, if you swap the head unit for a different one (ie, non-bose) then you will have to make some modifications as the "speaker" outputs are actually line level and passed through to the amp under the parcel shelf, amplified there and then passed back to the speakers.

It's been done before though ...
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Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.
« Reply #8 on: 25 October 2006, 16:28:01 »
Take it to your local 'repair shop' and get them to check the optical eye on a scope....they should be able to replace the laser pickup assembly for about 40 dollars + fitting as they are a standard part.
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