Good CD Players and Defective Discs

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Got a shipment of cds from Columbiahouse recently.One of the discs
in the order won,t play.It will not even read the table of contents.
My Classe player just comes up with an error on the display.Off my
approximately 500cds I have about 3-4 that do this and I have never
had an explanation for it.These defective discs will play in my
Cheap discman though which I have then assumed meant something is
wrong with my Classe'.Well I decided to call Columbiahouse about it
on the chance that it may be defective.
The response was surprising.The lady told me that the disc is in fact
defective and that they see this all the time.I explained to her that
I have a very good audiophile player thinking she would not even know what I was talking about.She further explained that cheap
players are not able to see the defect and that very good machines
are set up to see the disc perfectly.If they see any imperfection
they just won,t play the disc.Is this a valid explanation? I had never heard of this before and was surprised to hear this explanation
from such an unlikely source.You would think that cheap players
would be the ones not able to play a defective disc.Any comments?
Duane Upshaw

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Topic - Good CD Players and Defective Discs - dudeupshaw@cogeco.ca 17:31:14 07/05/06 (6)

BTW, anytime I have a CD that doesn't play properly... - NewStevo 10:51:24 07/07/06 (0)

As I understand it, designers balance the amount of... - NewStevo 07:09:14 07/07/06 (1)

Re: As I understand it, designers balance the amount of... - dudeupshaw@cogeco.ca 09:09:48 07/07/06 (0)

Re: Good CD Players and Defective Discs - srdavis2000 08:11:17 07/06/06 (1)

Re: Good CD Players and Defective Discs - dudeupshaw@cogeco.ca 21:34:25 07/06/06 (0)

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