I think it’s time for laser cleaning

Mr. Sharpe

I’ve used my Marantz UD-7007 for near 8 years now and performed zero maintenance on it. I feel it’s time to.

Just now sitting here watching a blu ray that skipped momentarily and when it went back to normal the audio was louder. I notice that when listening through my emotiva umc-200 in surround that it also poorly exhibits loud noises like the pop of an explosions, gunfire and sudden loud sound effects. I thought it was the processor having an issue but I’ve noticed the same sounds are weak coming from the tv. My kids even mentioned it.

Like I said I’ve had the player for what seems like forever and use it daily. Any thoughts? I’m going to do a laser cleaning sometime regardless. Maybe a cap needs replacing since it’s used so much? Any helpful information welcome. I don’t see any information in the manual about periodic maintenance. I’m definitely game for updating the player bc it has been spectacular.

pitdogg2

Personally I've not been too impressed with the disc "laser cleaners". I've typically opened them up and used 91% alcohol on a q-tip and very gently cleaned the lens.

Clipdat

Could just open it up and used some compressed air very gently to clean any dust off the laser.

Mr. Sharpe

Sounds good. I was planning on doing the alcohol one for sure and blowing it with air sounds good too. I hope that’ll help it👍

mhardy6647

FWIW, I thoroughly concur and support @pitdogg2's suggestion above.
I will note that I have a dim (but unsettlng!) recollection of having a lens loosen and fall out after a cleaning attempt on an old CDP at some point in the dim past. It would have been on a dump-find CDP, so it wasn't as traumatic as one might otherwise think.
That said, I offer this simply as a word of encouragement to the OP to be gentle and careful when goin' in for manual cleaning.

Mr. Sharpe

I could imagine that being an awful feeling having one fall off lol good thing it was a junk player! I’ll definitely be careful:)

Mr. Sharpe

Turns out it wasn’t the laser needing cleaning, my UMC-200 processor I was using was just a piece of garbage. I’ve since replaced it with an MC-700 and it sounds amazing. The laser ended up completely failing a couple of weeks ago, it was an easy fix, got a new one and it’s running strong.

stevep

At first I thought someone made a version of this for vinyl.

pitdogg2

If they did it would be a very quiet album....no pops, no clucks, no tunes either....

Mr. Sharpe

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