Skipping CD's


I have a Karik CD player that is about 8 years old. Can aging lasers cause CD's to skip? It happens only with some CD's and it does not matter if they are originals or CD-R's
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I agree with Sean totally. Love or hate Linn, their CDP's are as reliable as you can buy. I only have one observation that I would like to share with everyone. I burn CD's to play in my truck and have found the most generic, plain, non-labeled disks to be great. I'm not talking about sonics, just playability and the frequency of burning coasters. After 9-11 there were disk companies selling premium priced CDR's with heavy graphics and I bought two batches since the proceeds were going to the 9-11 victim families. I had no problems burning them but they didn't play well in my Linn CDP. Upon close inspection I determined that they were simply out of balance due to the heavy graphics on one side of the disk label surface. I might be wrong but this seems to be a real potential problem area. I no longer use these for audio.