DVD5 REPAIRS

Posted by: steve king on 21 November 2013

Hi my trusty DVD 5 has stared not reading certain discs and skipping etc, 2 questions please, is there anyone who can repair, I think it must be the transport, if not opinions please on a replacement with the importants on sound ove picture

Steve King

Posted on: 21 November 2013 by Richard Dane

Steve, best call Naim's service department.

Posted on: 22 November 2013 by Mr Underhill

Hi Steve,

Don't know if this will get pulled, but here is my advice:

The DVD5 is a great box, but expensive once this starts happening.

The repair will prob equal the worth.

Only worth keeping if you use it for CD replay as well as DVD

....even then I would:

Get an Oppo for DVD and get a Naim streamer for music, even if you have to wait and save for the latter.

Posted on: 22 November 2013 by Richard Sellicks

Sending my DVD5 for repair next week, not playing DVD or CD's but worth the cost of repair to us!

Posted on: 27 November 2013 by Mr Underhill

OK Richard - I'll bite:

If you are not using it for DVD or CD what ARE you using it for?

Posted on: 27 November 2013 by Don Atkinson

I'm only guessing, but......

Richard might mean the DVD5 is no longer able to play DVDs or CDs so he is sending the DVD5 to get it repaired

Posted on: 27 November 2013 by Richard Sellicks

Its not playing DVDs or CD that why it has to go back to Naim!!

Good news brought a working DVD5 from our favourite auction site

Posted on: 14 January 2014 by steve king

Richard sorry for the delay, managed to source new transport from Tiawan plugged it in like new again, I think that much of the DVD5, I got another transport for a spare approx $200.00 each, they are still available on the internet, just type DVD 5 transport.

Steve King

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by GreenAlex

won't an original transport supplied by naim cost roughly the same? if you do the work yourself and just order the spare part?
200$ for a transport is a loooot of money, me thinks.

by the way, there is no "once this starts". it's a transport. if the laser or something starts failing, replace the transport and be done with it. the rest of the dvd5 has nothing to do with it. or at least it shouldn't.

still an amazing player. of course not worth much nowadays but if you use it for cds, still worth fixing. and i use mine for dvds as well. so well worth keeping.