Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio Mp3 Deck Problems

Not necessarily, for example, if you have a Discman, and use it to run, after awhile the constant jarring will cause the laser to become missaligned. It is very gradual, but the result is that over time, the CD player will start skipping more easily. If it came from the factory misaligned it will always skip too easily. It is not so missaligned that it skips while sitting still, but it will be easier to make the lens shift enough to interupt the data.

As an example, my cousin owns an 86 Hyundai Stellar. We drove it down an ATV trail at between 40 and 70 kph. The only time the CD player skipped was when he hit a huge tree root that sent the car up about 3 feet, and even then it was a short inturruption. I have yet to skip any of my Alpine CD players, as does my brother (his is my mine from 3 years ago) and my buddy's 5 year old Panasonic HU never skips either and he is mean to his truck.

So like I said if it is a new HU it should not skip without a good reason. Try to get it exchanged if you can

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Is this only happening when you are playing Mp3s? Are you using the older cdrs that have the green tint or the newer and much improved silver tinted ones? How old is your burner? Are the cds scratched? Are the scratches from the laser or from your cd magazine or from use or what?

Well its not as bad with non-mp3 but it does seem to skip mroe than it should. I am using Maxell (the bottom is blue). The burner is...probably around a year or less than a year old. No the cds are not scratched. Usually they dont even get scratched (at least not to bad) because with the ~180 songs on it i dont have to change the cd much .

I have yet to skip any of my Alpine CD players, as does my brother (his is my mine from 3 years ago) and my buddy's 5 year old Panasonic HU never skips either and he is mean to his truck.

Is that old panasonic a Rebel Gear model?
Because Rebel Gear's had 40 sec antishock and they were the BEST design of a deck that panasonic has ever made and htey dropped it . They were almost impossible to skip!

Nope it was a POS no features ugly black thing With blue lights. I remember the rebel gear though

Why did Panasonic drop that phenemonal line of car decks anyways? They were simply amazing.

Sometimes burning an MP3 or Audio CDR at a high rate (Above 2x) can cause problems. At what rate did you burn the cdr at?

I burned it multiple times at 4x (which is the recomended speed by panasonic).