Digital Drive

Posted by Jim F. (A) on February 26, 2008 at 15:03:24

In Reply to: RE: Clicking noise heard when new, unblemished CD is played? posted by Michael_B. on February 08, 2008 at 10:52:07

> However, it makes a strange "clicking" noise whenever I play it (all tracks).

I assume you mean through the speakers, rather than a mechanical noise
coming from the transport. The latter would make me suspect a
mechanical problem with the transport.

> I selected a few other CDs at random from my collection and none of them exhibited this > clicking noise when played. . . Might this be an early sign of transport problems. . .?

Hard to be sure, but if it's an isolated case, I would (try) not
to worry about the transport.

> . . .and there's something subtle about this particular disc
> which is causing the transport to misbehave?

That would be my guess. Disc-manufacturing problems, though rare
these days, are not unheard-of, and they're not always visible to the
naked eye.

If you can't exchange the disc, and you value the music enough to make
the effort, you might try ripping the CD to the hard drive of your
computer with Exact Audio Copy, which is vastly more capable of overcoming
such a disc problem than a CD player's transport. You can then burn
a new copy of the disc to CD-R (assuming, of course, your CD transport
is capable of reading CD-Rs with no difficulty). At worst, you might
have to use the declicking tools in an audio restoration software suite.
(I've done all these things to "rescue" damaged CDs.)

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