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| 594.1 | Leave it on! | THORBY::MARRA | See Romans 6:23 for more details | Fri Jan 09 1987 11:51 | 13 |
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On the suggestion of Walt and a couple of others, I have had my
entire system *ON* since about mid-summer. The system *does* sound
better after being on a few days, and it has not suffered any
drawbacks. My suggestion is to leave the entire system ON for a
week and see if you notice any difference in the sound.
In answer to your question, I don't know, but I can't think of any
reason why leaving the discs in the machine would hurt anything;
unless the machine gets really really hot and the discs melt.
.dave.
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| 594.2 | No Pohblem!! | MIGHTY::MICHAUD | | Fri Jan 09 1987 12:49 | 8 |
| Well, I also have this unit. I like it... Reading the manual, if
I remember correctly, states that you should remove the magazine
from the unit when not in use. I don't see how leaving it in will
hurt the unit or the disk. The only potential problem that I see
would be weakening of the springs on the front door.. Once the disk
has stopped playing (either on it's own or by you hitting stop or
eject), it is retracted back into the magazine, where it stays in
stop mode. Well, that's my two cents worth.
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| 594.3 | but what about... | NEXUS::GORTMAKER | | Sat Jan 10 1987 02:48 | 9 |
| re: leaving it on.. My amp has not been turned off for 2 years with
the only exception being a power failure with no problems.
However, the owners manual on the cd player said to turn off
when not in use to conserve the life of the unit.
Question: is the laser operational(running) when the unit is
on but not playing a disk? anyone know?
-jerry
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| 594.4 | Mine hasn't munched itself or a disk yet... | EUREKA::REG_B | Moutain Man(iac) | Tue Jan 27 1987 21:10 | 28 |
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I also have this unit ("I have this unit also" ?). Anyway, I
leave cartridges in it most of the time. Due to a problem that
I *MUST* get around to some time, I power it off when not in use
since it transmits (either radiates or goes back through the power
cord) something horrible that my tuner doesn't like. As long as
you don't hit the power button while a disk is playing I don't see how
it will do any harm.
Reg
PS Thanks in advance for all the tips I'm going to get on how to
isolate and cure the interference problem. The reason it doesn't
bother me is that it is the tuner that is affected, not the amp,
so turning the CD player off when listening to the radio is quite
acceptable.
As to the issue of having the CD player warm, I suspect that
cycling it would have shaken out infancy problems earlier, i.e. more
probable that they would have been discovered in the warranty period,
and a burned in unit doesn't benefit significantly from staying powered
on (reliability wise). Since most of the active logic is digital its
probably a binary condition as to whether it works or not, this only
leaves the D-A section, if that has significantly different linearity
as a function of temperature then thats a bug that I would want fixed.
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| 594.5 | | MAGIC::DICKSON | WYSIWYG is a crock | Mon Feb 02 1987 19:19 | 10 |
| My CD player instructions warned against placing the unit
too close to a tuner, as there would be interference. Mine
is two shelves away, with a tape deck in between, and there
is still some fuzz getting through. I turn the play off
when I am not using it anyway, as otherwise it gets quite
hot. (This is normal, the book says)
Only a problem if I want to tape the CD/tuner while listening
to the tuner/CD. This has never happened, so far. (My amp
has an independant program selector for the "record out".)
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