consumer Cd player troubles

[Rock Star 87]

i have a fairly nice CD player in my room, and i'm having a bit of trouble with it. Some CD's sound like an LP with about 15 inches of dust on top. heavy scratching and shit. the CD's look normal and play normal on every other CD player i've ever tried them in, even my car, which is uber dynamic and responsive. anyways, that proves that it's not the CD's. It's also not the speakers because it only does it on certain parts of certain tracks, and it sounds the same in my cans. could it be that my Cd's are uber damaged and the laser is REALLY sensitive, or maybe a loose connection. i am chagrinned and bewildered. pleeeze help. all i know is it's an RCA with a 5 disc changer and 2 speakers, and 2 surround speakers. any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[MISTERQCUE]

Purchase a c/d lazer-lens cleaner and/or check your audio cables for shorts.
Also in certain cases, c/d's that may have been burned at low speeds of 1x etc., produce hi block error rates which give's inadequate performance in some consumer c/d players. Additionally most c/d's are 80min/700mb of which most older c/d players and drives cannot read, but that is becoming rare.

 

[Rock Star 87]

i ghetto-cleaned the lens, but i'll run to Wal-mart in 15 inches of snow tonight and pick up a lens cleaner. it shouldn't be the speaker cables or the speakers themselves for that matter, because they sounded the same with headphones. I never experienced errors on 4x burn Cd's, not that you're wrong. i just don't think that's the problem.

 

[MISTERQCUE]

Good luck!

Holla' back and let me know what the prognosis is.

 

[Farview]

Is this a boom box-type all in one stereo? It could just be broken or worn out.

 

[Rock Star 87]

thank u all very much for ur input. i ended up dipping a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol, cleaning the shit out of the lens, and it was about half-effective, and the second time i did it, it fixed the entire problem. apparently, finger-lickin' don't do the trick on a CD lens.