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I just received a parcel of 13 new CD’s from the UK and was surprised when my Beogram 4500 was unable to play the CD. I tried several of the new CD’s and the best I could do was to hear a few seconds of the CD and then the 4500 would go to stop.
I then tried the BeoCenter 9000 and it too refused to play any of the CD’s. Now this is not entirely such a big surprise as the BeoCenter is extremely unforgiving of being left unused for any length of time….. 3 days in this case.
Thinking there must be something wrong with the entire group of CD’s I took one last shot and tried my CDX player and no problem, it played one after the other?
What gives here? Oh, I just can’t wait for the responses on this one!
Jeff
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Are they standard redbook format audio CDs ?CD-Rs maybe ?
Martin
Hi Martin,
The format is CD-R 80.
This is a rather amateurish collection of nature sounds made by a company called Disc Village Media.
The advertisement made them look professional, but I suspect someone has made copies at home. I’ll give them this, the sound quality is pretty good and the graphics excellent.
So why can my car radio/CD player and the CDX play these CD’s whereas the Beogram 4500 can’t?
The jury is still out on the BeoCenter 9000 as it doesn’t like to sit idle and I have let it do so for a few days.
My BC9000 will play CD-r's and I would expect a BGCD4500 to cope ok too,but it does depend upon how good the recordings are,and of course the tracking ability of each machine.
You obviously have problems with your BC9000,both this and the Gram 4500 would probably benefit from a re-cap job.
Have you tried cleaning the laser lenses?They may look ok,but only a slight film can affect the tracking.
Nick
In my experience all B&O CD players have been somewhat picky with non-factory stamped CDs (unlike my Sony CDP-30 from 1985 which plays anything I feed into it - except CD-RWs).
CD-Rs shouldn't be that difficult, unless they have been burnt at a high speed. That often makes them unreliable in audio CD players. If you really need to play those discs in all decks, you might try copying them on a computer and burning the new copy at 4x speed or something.
--mika
My BeoCenter 9000 is most unforgiving of lack of use; use it everyday and it plays like a Swiss watch, but leave it for a few days and it stumbles badly on CD play. All other functions are perfect.
The Beogram 4500, until now, has not shown the slightest issue. I tried CD after CD and it attempted to play one and that is about it. The BeoCenter 9000 just stuck its tongue out at me. Fair enough, as it has a failing capacitor, but I still didn’t like it.
The Beogram CDX is a different breed of cat and it has NO problems playing all 13 discs.