Is Marantz To Blame?

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just won a CC-52 five disc Cd player on ebay. I thought it was the
same as the single CD-52 which I have .The CC is from Japan and the
CD from Belgium

the CC is a nice bitstream unit BUT-it does not play 80 minute CDr-s
as does the CD


Is this because Marantz hard coded something instead of soft coded it.
Did other companies have this problem?

As a mac programmer, we were always warned to soft code or our
software was guaranteed to break. I followed the rules and no matter
what apple did my software never broke

I guess for 66 bucks shipping included I did not do too bad

BTW when did 80 minute blanks show up

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I've worked on a number of CC-52's though it's been a while. I remember no
such problem with CD-R's. The CC-52 is a Sanyo / Fisher based machine,
unlike most Marantz models, which are Philips based.

Does it play factory - pressed CD's of near - 80 minute length?

If so, then your problem may be more in the nature of typical CD player
deterioration with age, cleaning, maintenance issues, etc.

The burning speed of the cd-burner could be a factor. It may also be
enlightening to play CD's recorded by a different burner.

Mark Z.

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"ansermetniac" <ansermetniac@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> just won a CC-52 five disc Cd player on ebay. I thought it was the
> same as the single CD-52 which I have .The CC is from Japan and the
> CD from Belgium
>
> the CC is a nice bitstream unit BUT-it does not play 80 minute CDr-s
> as does the CD
>
>
> Is this because Marantz hard coded something instead of soft coded it.
> Did other companies have this problem?
>
> As a mac programmer, we were always warned to soft code or our
> software was guaranteed to break. I followed the rules and no matter
> what apple did my software never broke
>
> I guess for 66 bucks shipping included I did not do too bad
>
> BTW when did 80 minute blanks show up
>
> Abbedd
>
> p.s. there is no upgrade available
>
> _____________
>
> for the mp3s of the week go to Abbedd's place
> http/members.aol.com/abbedd/abbedd
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

 

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:48:09 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
<mzacharias@yis.us> wrote:

>Does it play factory - pressed CD's of near - 80 minute length?
Yes it does.

Marantz was adamant that it won't play cdr blanks longer than 74
minutes, whan I called


it is a nice sounding unit though.

Abbedd

 

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Yes, they've always said that, but to my knowledge it applied mainly to the
CD-63 series, made by Philips. This was their standard response because they
had lots of complaints on the CD-63 types. I always regarded this as a
cop-out, weasly answer. They took the attitude of "Well, the discs are
out-of-spec, not our problem" even though virtually EVERY OTHER BRAND ever
made going back to the earliest CD players, has no problem with properly
burned CD-R's, provided the player is functioning properly. The Philips and
Marantz models in question were just pickier, that's all. Since your CC-52
is not Philips-based, I would assume that it is capable of normal CD-R
capability (yes, up to 80 minutes) until proven otherwise.

I still think maybe trying CD-R's recorded on another machine or at a lower
burn speed might be interesting.

Mark Z.

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"ansermetniac" <ansermetniac@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:48:09 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
> <mzacharias@yis.us> wrote:
>
> >Does it play factory - pressed CD's of near - 80 minute length?
> Yes it does.
>
> Marantz was adamant that it won't play cdr blanks longer than 74
> minutes, whan I called
>
>
> it is a nice sounding unit though.
>
> Abbedd

 

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>
>just won a CC-52 five disc Cd player on ebay. I thought it was the
>same as the single CD-52 which I have .The CC is from Japan and the
>CD from Belgium
>
>the CC is a nice bitstream unit BUT-it does not play 80 minute CDr-s
>as does the CD
>
>
>Is this because Marantz hard coded something instead of soft coded it.
>Did other companies have this problem?
>
>As a mac programmer, we were always warned to soft code or our
>software was guaranteed to break. I followed the rules and no matter
>what apple did my software never broke
>
>I guess for 66 bucks shipping included I did not do too bad
>
>BTW when did 80 minute blanks show up
>
>Abbedd
>
>p.s. there is no upgrade available
>
>_____________
>
>for the mp3s of the week go to Abbedd's place
>http/members.aol.com/abbedd/abbedd
>


74 Minute cdr's are still availabble from Mitsui (Now MAM ) I use them for a;ll
of my masters.
Richard H. Kuschel
"I canna change the law of physics."-----Scotty