webmaster
New Member
Had to report on this as it made me chuckle.
My trusty Marantz CD40 which was the first CD player I bought roughly 22 years ago decided to finally fail on me. The tray started to make all sorts of clunking noises on it's way in and out, and finally decided it wouldn't open tonight.
Having paid about £120 for it 22 years ago, I decided I was being robbed if I threw it away now, so I opened it up to have a look.
Turned out that some of the teeth on the gear that drives the tray in and out had snapped off. I blame Mrs Webmaster as she was the last person to touch it and was probably a bit over enthusiastic forcing in her new "Best of Meat Loaf" CD !
Anyway I've super glued it back together and it works, but it's quite rough and I recon it will last about 2 days tops.
So for a laugh I jumped on Ebay, firstly I found that good working units sell for £70 Then for a laugh I searched for "CD gear wheel" and would you believe you can actually buy the exact replacement part I needed, brand new !
So I've ordered one, and am now quite chuffed.
I love this cd player, it was best I could afford at the time as a student, but was just about the last of the 16bit ones before they all went bitstream, and has a much nicer sound.
During my search I found this guy doing DAC and Tube output conversions on them, which looks really interesting.
http://lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/REFERENCES/MARANTZ 40/marantz CD40 lampizator.html
My trusty Marantz CD40 which was the first CD player I bought roughly 22 years ago decided to finally fail on me. The tray started to make all sorts of clunking noises on it's way in and out, and finally decided it wouldn't open tonight.
Having paid about £120 for it 22 years ago, I decided I was being robbed if I threw it away now, so I opened it up to have a look.
Turned out that some of the teeth on the gear that drives the tray in and out had snapped off. I blame Mrs Webmaster as she was the last person to touch it and was probably a bit over enthusiastic forcing in her new "Best of Meat Loaf" CD !
Anyway I've super glued it back together and it works, but it's quite rough and I recon it will last about 2 days tops.
So for a laugh I jumped on Ebay, firstly I found that good working units sell for £70 Then for a laugh I searched for "CD gear wheel" and would you believe you can actually buy the exact replacement part I needed, brand new !
So I've ordered one, and am now quite chuffed.
I love this cd player, it was best I could afford at the time as a student, but was just about the last of the 16bit ones before they all went bitstream, and has a much nicer sound.
During my search I found this guy doing DAC and Tube output conversions on them, which looks really interesting.
http://lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/REFERENCES/MARANTZ 40/marantz CD40 lampizator.html