Start of part two.
When I got this home and pulled it out of the box I was amazed how heavy it was, and that it had cork feet.
I immediately set it up on the floor. I had to test it to see if the display model was a fluke. As a test, the first track I played was “Come Together.” It passed the test. Then to test its stereo abilities, I gave it “Malletoba Spank.” It was like gazing into the Milky Way with my ears.
Anyway, after 6 years of loyal service as radio, CD player, phonograph amplifier, and iPod amplifier, it stopped playing CDs. It would click. With everything else going on then, I didn’t have time to check into what was going on.
For the past 14 it has been in one box or another. My life was being lived on an iPhone.
My life has been re-expanding into the physical world since 2020. Over the past year I got my wall painted, the floor refinished and the top of my cradenza refinished. Now I could finally get back to the clicking CD player.
I opened it up for the first time. It’s beautiful in there. So many circuit boards and a heavy steel frame. It all seemed to work. I took as much of the CD player apart as I dared. I cleaned the laser lens twice. It still would not read a disk.
This is when I found High-Tech Electronic Service Center. I dropped it off on a Friday evening. It was ready by Wednesday afternoon. They said all it needed was a lubrication and adjustment. But they also replaced the laser just to be sure.
So here it is again. Still sounding and looking great. Now I have to reacquaint myself with all my CDs.