defective Quad 66 cd player
Hi,
two weeks ago I bought a second hand Quad 66 cd player for 280 euro's. I think that's a lot of money for such an old product, but as I love my (also second hand) Quad 606 MK2 pre and power amp, I wanted to have a cd player that matched visually with the amplifier.
I visited a seller at his home that has good reviews at eBay. I took my own cd with me, but he had the setup (amplifier, Quad cd player and loudspeakers) already playing for demontration. I tested the remote, browsed through the cd, used prev, next, fast forward buttons and everything looked perfect. The player looked in great shape from the outside. He wanted 280 euro's for it as it was in great shape he told me.
Later that night at my friends house I played a cd to compare the player to his Denon player. We both got the impression that the Quad sounded better. (warmer sound, lf extension). But at track #2 there was one short skipping sound to be heard. I checked a second cd and there was suddenly a lot of skipping: like you push the fast forward button on the remote. I checked a fird cd, same problem.
I was disappointed as I thought I did a good test at the sellers place and I phoned him. He told me he was unaware of this problem and had used the player the whole afternoon.
I took the player to my home and checked it with one cd that played perfect: no skipping sounds. The next day I checked a cd of my girlfriend that had bad skipping problems. I tested for about one week and most of my own cd's play perfect but sometimes at seemingly random time's it skips.
I contacted the seller and told him I wanted my money back or change it for a different player as he owns multiple Quad cd players. He replied and told me that he had another Quad 66 cd player which was at the repairman because of a display problem.
I'm wondering what to do next? And what could be the cause? Would it be an easy fix? In the meantime I cleaned the laser lens but it did not solve the problem.
