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Problem with Marantz SA-8260

I recently purchased a Marantz SA-8260 SACD/CD player. It does two things I don't like and I'm hoping someone here will know what I can do to fix it.

1. It does not recognize some older CDs in my collection. When they are loaded it tries to read the TOC, but eventually stops and displays, "No Disc".
2. It seems much more sensitive to disc cleanliness than my other players. It skips or stalls on CDs that other players have no trouble with.

Does anyone have any ideas (except purchasing a turn table)?
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rapn3
5 posts
 
Imagine that Sharri
Deeppurpleman say cleaning
solved the problem
GOOD ENOUGH!!!
deeppurpleman
12 posts
 
My experience is just one data point. Since my unit was out of warranty I decided to take a chance that a lens cleaner would work since it would be a lot cheaper than shipping it to Marantz for repair. It happened to work for me but it may not work for everybody.
chayro
2,926 posts
 
I wish somebody would invent something that would allow people to separate one sentence from the next. I'll work on that after I invent something to get the water off my windshield when it rains. I'm getting close on that one.
sharri
90 posts
 
Dear Rapn3,
Grow Up.
sharri
90 posts
 
Well, to continue on.....
First time, that is after several months of frustration, I experienced the reading difficulties, I got a disc cleaner and cleaned the laser according to instructions. It worked. Well, it worked for about 30 minutes that is. Thereafter, repeated cleaning never did any good. I ended up taking the player to Marantz Service Center, and problem was fixed.

Thus, it's all rather simple. If the laser has some lint, dust, etc. causing the reading problems, then cleaning the laser should cure the problem. As stated above, this is the usual first step, as it's easy to do.
But if the problem is caused by the overheating chip, then cleaning the laser will do nothing for that. The overheating chip is a well known issue with the 8260 player. Marantz eventually acknowledged the problem and issued a service bulletin to the Service Centers. I always thought that since the problem was the Marantz design that they should have fixed the problem for free, but no luck on that.
At least the problem is not fatal like in the Philips SACD 1000.
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