Skipping vs. Drop Outs not "High School "

brad: AFAIK, "drop outs" are generally, if not always, recording or production faults present on the cd. they are manifested by a sudden drop in volume or an extremely short bit of silence where sound ought to be. "skipping," OTOH, can be caused by either the cd or the transport/laser mechanism onboard the player; it is manifested by a sort of aural stuttering equivalent of a dvd player's production of rapid flashes of digital junk on the monitor when it skips. you should be able to discern the differences between these phenomena, tho they may not be quite as apparent on some of the "old crap." -cfb