Big Box defectives

[Chuck Nessa]

Yesterday I discovered a faulty disc; Iberia, disc 28, Reiner box.

It chattered for a few seconds and then stopped dead.

I tried it on 2 other players in the house and they played through, but with large clicks.

I went to the Amazon site to see about a return and discovered my window closed on Jan 31.

I burned a copy on my computer and the cdr plays on all machines with no problems.

Anyone have the same problem with this disc?

Anyone have any success communicating with any of the gigantic "music" companies lately?

I must have a couple hundred unplayed discs in boxes like this.

[JSngry]

  On 2/3/2015 at 12:57 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Yesterday I discovered a faulty disc; Iberia, disc 28, Reiner box.

It chattered for a few seconds and then stopped dead.

I tried it on 2 other players in the house and they played through, but with large clicks.

I went to the Amazon site to see about a return and discovered my window closed on Jan 31.

I burned a copy on my computer and the cdr plays on all machines with no problems.

Anyone have the same problem with this disc?

Anyone have any success communicating with any of the gigantic "music" companies lately?

I must have a couple hundred unplayed discs in boxes like this.

Been running into that here lately as well, and not necessarily in the "big" boxes. Need that explained to me.

Part of me wants to think that the labels are disincentivized to do any real QC on these things, becuase, you know, who's really going to listen to every disc of every one? I bet that discussion was had at least once.

[papsrus]

  On 2/3/2015 at 12:57 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Yesterday I discovered a faulty disc; Iberia, disc 28, Reiner box.

It chattered for a few seconds and then stopped dead.

I tried it on 2 other players in the house and they played through, but with large clicks.

I went to the Amazon site to see about a return and discovered my window closed on Jan 31.

I burned a copy on my computer and the cdr plays on all machines with no problems.

Anyone have the same problem with this disc?

Anyone have any success communicating with any of the gigantic "music" companies lately?

I must have a couple hundred unplayed discs in boxes like this.

Playing the disc now and it's tracking fine so far.

No clicks, just castanets.

I recall you may be using an inexpensive, so-called "disposable" player; I think it was you who advised me to get a cheapo player when my Cambridge started acting up a few years ago with the reassurance that you used such a device as well. Is it possible your player is at fault? This wouldn't explain the clicks you hear on the other two players, unless the first player somehow damaged the disc when it ground to a halt.

Do the clicks appear at the spot it stopped playing, or elsewhere?

Damn disappointing.

[king ubu]

  On 2/3/2015 at 12:57 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

I must have a couple hundred unplayed discs in boxes like this.

Same here!

I had one totally unplayable disc in the EMI Ciccolini box. Return window had long been closed, but eventually I received a second (full) set from amazon (and didn't need to return the first - shipping costs would have been more expensive than what I had paid for the box in the first place, speak of craziness of our times! Instead I gave the box to a friend whom I knew would appreciate it).

Other than that and the wrong disc in the Toscanini box (for which I got a replacement straight from Sony/BMG Germany), and a missing disc in a small(3CD), brand-new and sealed set from Supraphon (for which I got the missing disc via vendor), I was lucky so far.

Oh, and a wrong sleeve in the Solti Wagner box (one sleeve is repeated, but the disc included is the right one).

On the topic of CD players, after many years of using cheapo discmen hooked up to an amplifier, I've bought an Onkyo for about 300 (does it matter which currency right now? not really, as long as we're discussing real money) and have been very happy with it ever since. No more of the rattling noise and stuff the cheapo players always brought with them.

[RiRiIII]

No problem with my CD 28 from the Reiner box.

[sonnymax]

Quite understandable that you wouldn't have time to listen to that many discs within the return period. I wonder if it might be worthwhile in these situations to run each disc through a free ripper/converter application (I use X Lossless Decoder for Mac). It will give you a report that identifies any errors in a matter of minutes.

Edited February 3, 2015 by sonnymax