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My CD player's center post is a bit too precisely sized. Some CDs barely fit on it. Is there away of slightly enlarging th CD's hole?
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"My CD player's center post is a bit too precisely sized. Some CDs barely fit on it. Is there away of slightly enlarging th CD's hole?"I would be more inclined to believe the CD player's center post is a bit out of spec. I've never run into this issue in my decades of playing CDs in over a dozen different CD players.
If you believe the tolerance of some CD holes are just too tight for your particular (older Wadia?) player, rather than making the CD holes larger, why not copy those CDs using your PC and a CD burner? Perhaps the copies will be a better fit. Just a thought.
Edits: 05/06/17
Nt
...but as useless as your answer was, it was the only one that pointed in the right direction. I was hoping that there was a tool made for out-of-spec CD holes.
Nt
You said your "CD player's center post is a bit too precisely sized".
If you had taken a vernier caliper to your CDs inner holes, found them out-of-spec, and had posted that, then you might have received more answers which addressed that issue.
If that is in-fact the case, then I don't think geoffkait's answer is at all "useless". I'd be looking for a precision reamer to do that job.
+1 on geoff's answer not being "useless"More than likely the CDs, in question, holes are slightly off-centered.
He,he,he ... your saying "some" (or was it "a few") CDs barely fit is quite telling as to what is probably the problem. Rip these problematic discs to your PC using reliable ripping software (like dBPoweramp)& then burn them to a good CDR blank..... Problem solved !
Edits: 05/07/17
Say you do make ALL your CD holes bigger. And the player breaks.
Then you get a 'normal' CD play and ALL your CDs rattle around and fail to play anymore due to too big a hole.
So I say screw the player not the holes.
But one possible solution would be to create a slight bevel on the play side only.
So the hole stays the same size, but it has a bevel to ease the placement?
"Say you do make ALL your CD holes bigger. And the player breaks.
Then you get a 'normal' CD play and ALL your CDs rattle around and fail to play anymore due to too big a hole."
I cringe over the notion that someone might do that, then later sell his CD collection to an unsuspecting buyer......
OTOH, I can see how a "doesn't fit" situation might be problematic.
CD spindle too big to deal with CD hole size variations? Well I think this unlikely as there were comparatively few manufacturers of CD transports ( of which the spindle is an intrinsic part). Therefore if one of the manufacturers made even slightly oversized spindles they would have appeared in thousands of players and be a common problem. As it is in the 34 years since the introduction of CD this is the first reported case of it that I have come across.Your profile lists two players , a Wadia 830 and an Arcam Alpha 9, both of which are now some years out of production and both of which used transports manufactured by the many thousand. So have you been suffering with this fault for years as both machines must have been in use for a long time but have only just decided to rectify it ? Incidentally the Pioneer transport in the Wadia is well known to me as I owned a player equipped with one for years and never had any problems. The transport in the Arcam is a Sony and as they were one of CD's patent holders one can be pretty sure that their spindles were not out of specification. BTW, spindles are also normally slightly chamferred in profile to account for size variation.
You say it affects only " some" discs. What are they? Do they come from a particular label or CD manufacturing plant? The size of the hole on CDs and its tolerances are set out in the redbook standard and I haven't heard of plants manufacturing outside of these. I have well over 2000 CDs and have used many CD players and transports over the years. Never any problem with this issue.
Perhaps some further information from you may help inmates work out what the real problem may be. I hope that you can understand my doubt in regard to out of tolerance hole or spindle size.
Edits: 05/04/17
You won't likely have that CD player in 20 years, but you could very likely have the CDs, which would then have the potential to wobble on your next player.
If it were me, I'd be attempting surgery on my CD player rather than on my CDs, since your player is where the problem is.
Good luck with it.
"You won't likely have that CD player in 20 years, but you could very likely have the CDs, which would then have the potential to wobble on your next player."
That's what I was thinking..... Enlarging a hole in a CD to make it work in a specific player may make the disc useless in most other players.......
Who the @#%$ is going to be using a CD player in 20 years? Almost no one is using them now.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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"Who the @#%$ is going to be using a CD player in 20 years? Almost no one is using them now."
I guess I'm "almost no one"......
I'm using a CD player now, and don't envision not using one in the foreseeable future..... I still say it's the best sounding digital audio source I've heard.
Twenty five years ago "almost no one" was using their turntables. But if he asked back then, and said his table's spindle was oversized, I'd have told him to address that instead of reaming out all his LPs center holes.
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