SONY SCD1 SACD Player

[geovar]

I have this sacd years now and is excellent. I read somewhere in the net about a new firmware 2.53.(old one 2.0) Do you know how is possible to know what FW is installed in my sacd?

[The Barbarian]

Yeh that was a beauty when it came out..

[Spectral Morn]

You need to talk with a Sony service centre. Main problem I see is this was introduced to fix a problem many years ago. Will these chips still be available ? Talk to Sony.

More here http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/swap-meet/75448-sony-scd-1-firmware-upgrade-chip-version-2-53-a.html but this is 2006, that's a long time ago. I must confess I didn't know there was a problem. I had an SCD777es and thought it nice but nothing special bar the nice mechanism which if it breaks is very, very hard to get sorted out - so I moved it on.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/559964/any-sony-scd-1-scd777es-owners-here-firmware-question

https://community.sony.com/t5/Home-Theater-Products/Sony-SCD-CE595-Firmware/td-p/36285

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sony+scd-1+firmware+update


Regards Neil

[geovar]

I Thank you all for replays.
I asked Sony service but they can intervene only if there is a problem.
Looking the links (Thanks Neil) Seems to me that the problem was with reading sacd/cd's (hybrid).
In my case the player reads fine hybrids, so I am OK.

[Tiff_Needle]

I'm considering selling my SCD-1. How much do you guys think its worth?

Mine is in near mint condition. Actually mint expect for the fact of a very light air tiny scratch that one can only see with the right lighting on a certain angle. Not visible on a daily use...

[Macca]

Worth about £20, bottoms fell out the market ;)

But I'll take it off your hands.... :)

[The Barbarian]

You can't go wrong with the Sony Hi End CD player for sound quality. but i refuse to pay big money for any new CDP that is not going last me without a 50/50 chance of an unexpected laser failure within five years. It's all great if your a box swapper that keeps players a years of so sells them on before the warranty runs out, i suppose it's only same a new car buyers.

If you think im talking crap how come then that out of the heaps of 80's CD players i have had not a single technical issue, remember they were around 30 years old. Where as ive had around five new modern CDP's three have had laser/mech failures within 3 years.

However if i were into Digital as a Source i would not bother again with CD, May as well be lossless files IMHO.

Like Martin says £20. I think i could risk that.. Why the ferkin hell do people spend so much on CDP's is beggars belief.

[Macca]

I've got 3 1980s players that are u/s so it aint just the modern ones. Usually it's not the laser that goes, it is something far harder to trace..

I've bought a book on how to fix them. Not read it yet but hey, how hard can it be?

[The Barbarian]

They probably don't like you :lol:

Book on how to fix em :rfl: joking aside i don't think you realise how useless some people are, fitting a mains plug is serious brain surgery to them..

[Desmo]

They probably don't like you :lol:

Book on how to fix em :rfl: joking aside i don't think you realise how useless some people are, fitting a mains plug is serious brain surgery to them..

Perhaps.... but there are plenty of people on this forum, who know how to use a soldering iron and read a circuit diagram.