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My CD Players Sound Like a Motorboat. What Could Cause That?

Started by hoosier, June 19, 2009, 17:53 hrs

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hoosier

All of a sudden any commercial CD, or any CD I have burned ------ upon playback via my CD Player or my DVD/CD Player/Writer, I clearly hear a continuous background sound like "put, put, put, put, put"

I have a SAMSUNG SC-148A CD Player and a SONY DRU-180A DVD/CD Player/Writer

I do not get this sound from anything I play directly from my computer hard drive

I have made no recent changes to my hardware or software. I use Windows XPS3 and play CDs using WMP

Anyone have ideas on what might cause this?



scuzzy

For clarification... is it a mechanical noise that the units are making? Or is it background noise coming through the speakers?
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scuzzy

Okay... try re-seating, or possibly replacing the IDE ribbon cable.
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hoosier

Since my ribbon cable goes from motherboard and splits in two to connect with my two players, reseating or replacing the cable seemed good advice. I did remove and reconnect the cable with no result.

I will get a new cable and try that, but because my DVD/CD Player/Writer continues to burn movie DVD disks with no sound problem I'm not very confident that a new cable will help.

hoosier

Nope, new ribbon cable did not help.

Perhaps I should mention that these "put-put-put" sounds are very close together and they are in the background but quite easy to hear.

Anything I might try next?

hoosier

Further info: I've just discovered that I can still rip sound from a CD in my CD player, and then that sound can be played back from my hard drive without the "put, put, put"

scuzzy

I'm am sorry to say that I do not have any other ideas.

This is a tough one. Anybody else have any suggestions?
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Mark H

Sounds like it might be a shielding problem, but other than that I have no ideas.

Mark H
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