CD player on Sony ZS-D55 has increasingly bad dropout. We've had this player about 4 or 5 yrs, and it started almost from new. I've cleaned the 'head', the laser eye, with a cotton bud moistened with meths, cleaned the actual discs relentlessly. But, several times in playing a CD, the sound will cease for 1-2 secs, then resume. In one brand new CD today, on later tracks toward the end, it dropped out 3 times withing a couple of minutes. I first used to think it was a memory capacity problem, the built-in RAM in the machine. Not so sure now. HELP

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Hi I'm not familiar with your particular model, but the auto stop problem is common and is usually the result of a slipping drive belt, or bad idler/reel drive. The auto-stop works by popping a small tooth like plastic or nylon piece attached to an arm, when you runout of tape and takeup reel pulls the tape tight. The auto-stop mech can get contaminated with dust, and not work, or the reel for some reason does not pull the tape tight enough to fully engage that piece and the result is a ticking sound. As the deck now has your tape, I suspect the main drive belt is broken or probably slipping, and all will work fine if it is replaced. Although changing the belt is not difficult, you should probably take it to a repair shop, as getting the right size is important, and the deck may have to be dismantled to change it. Hope this helps, good luck!

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Check that the disk is still spinning. If not then suspect the spindle motor

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Hello db1964,

I have a cdf-e75 that had a similar problem, although the red power light was dim for all functions. (the radio, tape and cd)
After opening up the unit and inspecting, I found one of the pins on the printed circuit board for the power had broken away from the solder. (it is a tiny board where the AC connector is soldered to) Seems in my unit there is nothing securing the molded AC connecter to the plastic case except the the printed circuit board it is soldered to-It is a poor design; perhaps your is the same? I suspect over time pushing the AC cord into the back of the player may have broke the connection? Anyway, I soldered the connection and I have never had any additional problems as the unit has worked fine since.
Don't know if this helps, but my suggestion would be to open the unit and inspect the pin connections on the AC printed circuit board to see if any have a loose/broken connection. ( Mine was not noticible with the naked eye as I had to use a magnifying lens and a bright light. Hope this might help.

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If you can disassemble the CAP(disc holder) and place it on the disc while it is on the spindle and at the same time push the (hidden)lid switch you will see the lazer"s lens move up and down while trying to focus on the disc. If the lazer see's the disk it will tell the motor to turn. If it dosn't see the disc it will not turn the motor. Some model will kick the disc to spin a little while trying to see the disc. This type of player can be tricked into seeing the disc if you spin the disc a little by hand when the lazer's lens is moving up and down. At that point in time it might see the disc and take over the motor and spin up to normal speed. If the disc is an illeagal copy sold as a original the quality of the disc could be the cause. If the player is very clean (no small hairs stuck to the glue that holds the lens in place) (never clean with a cotton swab, use a shammie swab with rubbing alcohol or isopropal 99%) the problem could also be that the lazer is just not strong enough and the whole lazer-motor assemble should be replaced. Older units could use 1 drop of light motor oil on the motor shaft at the bearing to help start the motor when the system kicks the disc to spin. If the player reads the disc at the time you manually spin the disc maybe a good cleaning and oiling is all that is needed. The disc spins clockwise. if the disk spins counter clockwise replace the whole assemble. Maybe simpler, just give the disc a good clockwise spin and quickly close the door and push play while the disc is still spinning. if it starts, there you go. Don't use caned air on the lazer assemble. it will blow the dirt further into the lazer mechanism under the lens and make matters worse! Good luck!!

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Hi, this is a pretty common problem with C.D. players, the laser has lost a bit of its intensity. This possibly can be fixed by adjusting a very small " semi-variable resistor " this should be located on the laser assembly or on the ribbon cable just before the laser. It may be a colored plastic dial with an arrow on the top, or a metal looking screw type looking adjustment ( probably has a bit of enamel to lock in place-this breaks free easily). It may even be labeled " bias ". Use a small phillips jewelers type screwdriver for the plastic kind and a slotted jewelers for the metal. move the adjuster in very small increments one way then or the other if need be. Make note of the original position in case you need to adjust different semi-variable resistors. also its even possible to have a dirty lens, use a jewelers loupe or equivalent to check. a very light touch with a Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol should do the trick. use opposite end to dry, be sure to not apply excessive pressure-the lenses suspension is extremely delicate. I hope this was useful-let me know if so or even if not so I may try again. Thanks for asking FixYa-good luck, Prodzilla