Question about CD2

Posted by: gaby yoon on 11 March 2002

Hello all,

I need your advice on the following question.
My present CD player is CD3.5 + Hicap.
Well, there's in my around a second-hand CD2, in excellent condition(according to the seller), at a very attractive price. I know that most people agree that in musical performance, the CD2 beats CD3.5 powered by Hicap. So I'm seriously thinking about that upgrading solution(I can't find a second-hand CDX here in Korea and on-line shopping is not so economic).

But I'm not so sure of its A/S of the transport mechanism of CD2 in the future. I already had a bad 'souvenir' of my CD3.5 mechanism, which I had to replace totally. It was not cheap. Anyway, I think it was possible because its transport (CD7) is a new model and still in production. But I know that the mechanism of CD2 (CDM 9)is no more produced.

My first qustion is what's the average span of life of a CD transport mechanism? And what's the risk I run if I go for CD2? Finally, how can I check if the mechanism is good condition or not? By serial number?

Thanks for your attention.

Yoon.

[This message was edited by gaby yoon on TUESDAY 12 March 2002 at 03:30.]

[This message was edited by gaby yoon on TUESDAY 12 March 2002 at 08:47.]

Posted on: 12 March 2002 by Martin Payne

quote:
Originally posted by gaby yoon:
I know that most people agree that in musical performance, the CD2 beats CD3.5 powered by Hicap. So I'm seriously thinking about that upgrading solution(I can't find a second-hand CDX here in Korea and on-line shopping is not so economic).

I do know of one dissenting voice on this - he prefers 3.5+Hi over CD2.

I don't have experience of this myself, but I sold my CD2 to a CD3 owner (no HiCap, obviously) and it was dramatically better from the first note we played, from stone cold. (The bare CD3 is reckoned to be pretty much equivalent to the bare CD3.5).

quote:
My first qustion is what's the average span of life of a CD transport mechanism? And what's the risk I run if I go for CD2?

I'm not aware of any reports of repeated problems with transports on CD2s.

cheers, Martin