Originally Posted by Simon
Just out of curiosity, for folks who have had to replace the drive in 800, did you hear any strange playback sounds as the drive was going bad? I'm not talking about mechanical sounds from the player, rather artifacts
through the speakers?


Simon,

Good timing on your question, glad I checked back. I experienced a new symptom that comes close to your artifacts inquiry.

New symptom reveled itself last night. Last night (800's mind of it's own prefered play time) after getting her to run about 5 songs into a CD it almost sounded like it was playing an LP at the wrong speed and static came thru the unit as the unit struggled to read and transfer the material off the CD. It was like it was dropping packets and kept pushing on but took 10-20- 30 seconds to finish a lyric, sentence or verse. I finally gave up and shut her down. This morning again she was not in the "mood" to play anything. We'll see how her mood is this eve :{. This getting old has to get boxed up and back to Atlanta!! An aside, a trend that seems to be forming is the 800 often WILL NOT play in the day time but much prefers the evening or night time, not so convenient for me however!

Best,

J

861v4 & v6, 800v4, 808.3, pr of 8k's, 5.5k 24/96(x3), HD621, Velo15, Modded OPPO BD83, Pioneer DVL-91combi, Technics SL-1200MK2, Musical Fidelity XLP, Kuro151FD, MIT & Kimber, 519, & Harmony 1K, member since July 2000