This unit was given to me with the complaint that it would intermittently "skip". I did confirm this to be so and I subsequently slightly increased the setting on the laser pot. The unit seemed to be OK after that and I put it away for several months. I now have a use for it and got it out of the closet and loaded it up with CD's only to find that its doing the same thing once again. The strange thing is that some CD's seem to be affected worse than others. In fact some CD's will play fine and others have skips many times in the same places on the same particular disc when repeated plays are attempted, while other discs are not recognized at all. There are random skips at times on some CD's as well. I know that some CDR's could be a problem with some older machines and so we are not attempting to play any of those. I was hoping to note the particular CD, track, and time into the recording and if there was failure repeatability, use that to determine if my adjustments solve the problem but I don't know if this method would work or not. Does anyone have any opinions on that? Could some sections of a CD be harder for what I'm assuming to be a weak laser to "see" than others? Can someone please explain this phenomenon to me? I'm going to try to tweak this thing again but I would just appreciate a better understanding of this. Thanks, Lenny
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13 years ago