March 29, 200818 yr comment_109524 This is a little outside the "normal" world of audiphilia, but I have a pretty vexing problem. The right side transport of my Pioneer CMX-3000 is acting up. It can't read most CDs, regular or CDR. I am afraid the drive is failing and I'll have to ship it back to Pioneer. Before I go that route, I'd like to try cleaning it. I haven't owned a CD cleaner in more than a decade. From what I recall, they're not all created equal. Any suggestions on what brand name cleaning discs I should look for? I'm additionally worried in that the last disk I used (ca. 1994) was an audio CD with a brush on it. It included frighteningly cheerful music and a 1950s-style voiceover telling me to skip to track ## and play it for 30 seconds. If my CDJ unit can't read audio CDs, it probably can't read a cleaner disk like that. Report
March 29, 200818 yr comment_109562 I took the cover off my CD player and used the lens cleaning kit from my camera on it. The lens brush thingy fixed all the misreading problems I had when I first got my CDP and since then it's been working fine. Report
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March 31, 200818 yr comment_109778 I've always just used compressed air to blow dust and etc. out of transports in stuff like game consoles, dvd players, PC cd/dvd drives. If the laser diode is really dirty, I'll use one of those microfiber clothes that are marketed as monitor and lens cleaners. Report
March 31, 200818 yr Author comment_109938 From what I have read on the Pioneer boards, using cleaner CDs in CDJ units is a bad idea. I'm afraid my next step it to contact pioneer and send the unit to them for repair. Report
March 31, 200818 yr comment_109943 I've always just used compressed air ... I'll use one of those microfiber clothes ...Don't those methods potentially muck with the alignment? Report
March 31, 200818 yr comment_109945 wouldn't the transport just move around until it locks on again and then calibrate? I remember having fun pulling the laser head on my pcdp all the way then closing the lid and it moves back and it still works fine. Report
March 31, 200818 yr comment_109972 wouldn't the transport just move around until it locks on again and then calibrate? Okay, I didn't think they had auto-calibration yet. Report
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