Rotel CD player noise - What is it? Anything to worry about?

pglbook
pglbook Posts: 2,265
edited January 2013 in Electronics
I just got home and put on a CD and noticed that my Rorel RCC 945 CD player started making a slight noise when I hit the Play button. It is continuous tick-tick-tick noise like a watch/clock movement noise. The CD player has never done this before. It still plays the CD fine and I cannot hear the noise while a CD is playing because the music masks the noise but ithe noise continues while in Play mode. There is no noise when the CD player is on and not in Play mode. It only happens when in Play mode, when playing a CD.

Is this normal? What does it mean?
Do I need to get the CD player fixed? Is it ok to use the CD player while it is doing this?
I just got a great pair of SDA 2Bs and do not want to risk damaging the peakers.

Thank you.
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  • rpf65
    rpf65 Posts: 2,127
    edited January 2013
    Did this just happen on one particular CD, or multiple CD's? Reason I ask is because I loaned a CD to somebody, and when it was returned, had the same problem with that one CD. Looked at it,and sure enough it was scratched. Actually played a different persons CD, and it actually sounded like the whole player was vibrating. It was scratched up that bad.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2013
    Good point. R..65. I've had that happen to me as well. However, this sounds like it's a mechanical problem.

    I have an old, believe it or not, Emerson, portable player that does something like this when it does NOT properly "seat" the CD? It ticks, taps. Fussing with it and reloading usually solves the problem, and if that does not work I apply some weight to the top.

    I'm assuming that the ticking is coming from the player itself and NOT being heard from the speakers, right? If so, you're speakers are SAFE. That's not really being amplified! But you may be wearing something down in the player itself. So a "professional" look-see might be in order!

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  • pglbook
    pglbook Posts: 2,265
    edited January 2013
    Thanks for the tip. Im just took out the CD (Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Last Concert, 2 CDs) and put another CD in and the CD player stopped making the noise. Funny thing is the 2 CDs (CD player makes the noise with both CDs) do not appear scratched (well, perhaps a few light scratches when I hold CDs up to light art the right angle) and the CDs do not skip or anything. I bought the CDs used and have been playing them without problems on another system and CD player in my shop for the past month. I took the CDs home today to hear on my SDAs and the Rotel CD player started making that noise.
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  • pglbook
    pglbook Posts: 2,265
    edited January 2013
    Yes...cnh...ticking is from the CD player itself...not from speakers. So far it only does it on that particular CD (or in this case, the 2 CDs of Modern jazz Quartet as it is a 2-dic set)...I also thought perhaps the CD wasn't sitting properly in the player. But maybe it is just that the CDs are scratched (they do not look scratched, though, except for a few very light scratches only noticeable if CDs tilted toward light in certain way), as rpf 65 mentioned as a posssible cause.

    Thanks again. I apprrciate it.
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  • pglbook
    pglbook Posts: 2,265
    edited January 2013
    It seems like it must have been the 2 Modern Jazz Quartet CDs becuase I have played 5 other CDs since and there was none of the noise while playing the other CDs. That is the first time I have experienced it where a specific CD would cause a noise like that. Of course I have had CDs that skipped, etc, but that those 2 CDs played fine but caused a clicking (tick-tick-tick) type noise from the CD player while playing. The CDs definitely must have scratches or other problems although they played fine on my older Yamaha CD player. Perhaps the Rotel CD player is also more sensitive to defective CDs. Thanks for the feedback and help troubleshooting. Glad nothing is wrong with my CD player.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,250
    edited January 2013
    I occasionally have this with my SACD/CD player. Some CDs are very obvious, others not so bad, and most are quiet. I still haven't made up my mind whether it is the CD, the player, or a combination of the two. However, I usually only play a CD once, and if it is good then it goes onto my music server. No noise issues there.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,999
    edited January 2013
    More than likely those CD's are out of round and causing the transport to shimmy, which in turn is causing the noise.
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