Knuckledragger Posted March 29, 2008 Report Posted March 29, 2008 This is a little outside the "normal" world of audiphilia, but I have a pretty vexing problem. The right side transport of my Pioneer CMX-3000 is acting up. It can't read most CDs, regular or CDR. I am afraid the drive is failing and I'll have to ship it back to Pioneer. Before I go that route, I'd like to try cleaning it. I haven't owned a CD cleaner in more than a decade. From what I recall, they're not all created equal. Any suggestions on what brand name cleaning discs I should look for? I'm additionally worried in that the last disk I used (ca. 1994) was an audio CD with a brush on it. It included frighteningly cheerful music and a 1950s-style voiceover telling me to skip to track ## and play it for 30 seconds. If my CDJ unit can't read audio CDs, it probably can't read a cleaner disk like that. Quote
aerius Posted March 29, 2008 Report Posted March 29, 2008 I took the cover off my CD player and used the lens cleaning kit from my camera on it. The lens brush thingy fixed all the misreading problems I had when I first got my CDP and since then it's been working fine. Quote
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OverlordXenu Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 I've always just used compressed air to blow dust and etc. out of transports in stuff like game consoles, dvd players, PC cd/dvd drives. If the laser diode is really dirty, I'll use one of those microfiber clothes that are marketed as monitor and lens cleaners. Quote
Knuckledragger Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Posted March 31, 2008 From what I have read on the Pioneer boards, using cleaner CDs in CDJ units is a bad idea. I'm afraid my next step it to contact pioneer and send the unit to them for repair. Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 I've always just used compressed air ... I'll use one of those microfiber clothes ...Don't those methods potentially muck with the alignment? Quote
hYdrociTy Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 wouldn't the transport just move around until it locks on again and then calibrate? I remember having fun pulling the laser head on my pcdp all the way then closing the lid and it moves back and it still works fine. Quote
jinp6301 Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 OMG YOU INTRODUCE THE JITTAR MONSTAR Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted March 31, 2008 Report Posted March 31, 2008 wouldn't the transport just move around until it locks on again and then calibrate? Okay, I didn't think they had auto-calibration yet. Quote
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