BearBoy Posted September 3, 2024 Report Share Posted September 3, 2024 Good work! I'm always a bit reluctant to take the risk on a "spares and repairs" deck, or one the seller says they are unable to test, just in case it turns out to be more than just a simple belt swap/ribbon cable reseat type issue. My technical "expertise" doesn't really extend beyond that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted September 17, 2024 Report Share Posted September 17, 2024 This afternoon I've been cleaning battery leakage out of the remote control for my CDP-XB740 😠 Timely reminder to remove batteries from anything that's not going to be used for a while... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted September 17, 2024 Report Share Posted September 17, 2024 Apposite horror story here - I discovered the on-off switch on my AV receiver (via remote) wasn't working today. Last night it was 100% fine. When I checked the battery, both AAA batteries had significantly decomposed and there was seepage. Nothing I couldn't fix with a damp paper towel, but I got literally NO warning that anything was amiss. This must have been like this for weeks. If you're paranoid, open the battery compartment to remotes on a regular basis, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 This afternoon I've been working with a couple of portables on my desk. Got an MZ-N910 hooked up to my PC and Web MiniDisc Pro to record to some discs and then an MZ-R909 connected to my office speakers to play them back. Can't remember if I've asked about this previously but it did remind me of the inconsistency in how different players function with tracks in Groups. If you select a particular Group on the MZ-R909 then it will play all the tracks in that Group and then stop (or go back to the beginning of that Group if you've got Repeat on). This is the same way my MDS-JB980s work. On the MZ-N910, however, it starts playing the tracks in the next Group when it gets to the end of the original one, unless you have Repeat on, in which case it goes back to the start of the original Group. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong at my end but it seems a bit odd that it won't just play the Group I've selected and then stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted January 10 Author Report Share Posted January 10 Glad your 909 is working (I don’t want to talk about mine…). I’ve only got an MDS-JE770 that supports this group thing and whilst it’s in my ‘active’ stack it’s not a machine I generally use (normally I use the MDS-JB940 I got from @M1JWR or the MDS-E12 that’s on my office desk under the laptop). So I’ve never got into using the group function - but I know from your posts that it’s something you use quite a bit! Nothing new going on my side but I do use my MZ-R700 at work most days (it’s still trouping on after all these years) and the machines I mention above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted 16 hours ago Report Share Posted 16 hours ago Yeah, I think you need a number of devices with the Group functionality to make it worth using otherwise you end up with wonky looking disc titling, which would bother me 😂. All but two of my portables have it, and I tend to default to the 980 in my office stack when I'm using a deck, so I'm generally using a compatible device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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