Mark Zacharias wrote:
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:51:47 -0600, §ñühwö£f
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Phil Hobbs wrote:
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Stew Leonard's Espresso Roast, roasted fresh daily in sunny
Yonkers. Best beans I've ever come across, and worth the trip.
Always a crowd pleaser.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Sorry to hijack this thread but I have an actual electronics repair
question: how do I go about getting my old AIWA CX-NA10 stereo
system to read CD's again? Is the lazer bad? It detects the cd and
spins up but wont play it.
Have you taken it apart yet? Try cleaning the lens. In a dirty,
smoky or wet environment the lenses can become coated with stuff.
I had it "working" a little after all that and an adjustment to the
potentiometer on the back of the lazer as instructed. However it would
only read one specific CD and scratched some CD's when it went thru
its ejection cycle (disks would not spin down before ejection!) so I
removed the tray and wont use it anymore. Further research indicated
AIWA was part of a class action lawsuit in the 90's due to their CD
players being crap. They're out of business now anyway. Good riddance.
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Aiwa is still around as I understand it. They're owned by Sony.
I haven't seen any new kit from them in any stores for years. Sony
bought them out and killed it off:
"Since 2004, however, Sony seemingly began rolling back its support for
the Aiwa brand, and by 2005 Aiwa products remained on sale in only
selected territories around the globe. In 2006, Aiwa products were
discontinued and no longer sold in the market.
As of September 2011, the Aiwa website still existed to provide
customer-support telephone numbers for some territories and regions, but
it also contained many broken links and blank pages. In other regions,
such as Europe, it redirected to a page on the Sony website stating that
the Aiwa website had closed. The last apparent update to the website was
in June 2008.[1]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiwa
The biggest problem with their 3-cd models was that so much dust would
get into the lasers that even cleaning eventually would not be enough
and the laser would need to be replaced.
By the way, the lasers were made by Sony, the same pickups used by many
manufacturers at the time.
Wanna buy a used laser? Heh...its a 1997.
Worked on many of them, the customers were mostly satisfied.
Later models had sliding covers that covered up the laser lens when not
playing. This helped but of course was not a perfect solution.
Mark Z.
We have another one, made in 2001, the tape decks on that one dont work.
So, to recap: we have two units from failed electronics maker AIWA, and
both have non-working components. My conclusion: AIWA was rightly killed
off by Sony since its quality sucked balls.
Oh, but we also have a SHARP single CD unit from 1991, it works *perfectly*.
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