I had one of the Technics SL-XP units in 1987 grade 8 .. it was so futuristic LOL the real cats meow around the school - bought it with Asparagus picking money same year as buying the original Nintendo System. Listened to Rubber Soul thousands of times on that player.
@12voltvids: did you turn off the AVLS function at the Sony Discman? If it is turned on it will lower the volume on the headphone output to protect your ears for damage and that's not needed when using this output as an line level output. Almost every Sony had that function (Cassette walkmans, portable discman's and portable minidisc players / recorders).
I never tried dremel on contacts. But I did use vinegar on a cotton swab. (Not dripping wet). If it was an acid cell, I'd using a solution of baking soda. I almost bought a portable CD player like those. But I didn't. Oh, I had an idea to prevent people from leaving batteries in their devices. Make it beep like a smoke detector if not used for a certain period of time. The only way to shut off the beep is to open the battery compartment and take out the batteries. Putting them back in resets it. I know, people wouldn't like it, but it could prevent damage due to leakage. I would just take the batteries out to keep it quiet until I was ready to use it again.
10:48 it may say on the box, and within the owner’s manual, that it has anti-skip feature, but I can tell that in real life testing, the company didn’t mean it. Whoever took over RCA for this kind of junk, i’m sure the customers aren’t happy and they know it. What the anti-skip feature on portable CD players is supposed to do is as follows: the laser mechanism buffers ahead data by seconds; thus, spinning the disc faster. And while the mechanism may stop reading for the amount of seconds it buffered, the music still plays smoothly. It should be coming from the ram, making the listening experience seamless while on the go. I hope that’s my best description of how the anti-skip feature works.
Maybe the laser inside the player has faded such that it can't reliably read CD-RWs or the CD-RWs you've tried to use are old and "worn". I've had the same issue of CD players not reading the CD-RW disc I had laying around properly, sometimes it would read, but the audio was constantly "fading" in and out and MP3s burnt to that disc wouldn't play at all. I got a fresh pack of CD-RWs and they work just fine, even after a couple of rewrites.
As elektrokinesis said, the issue with the rca skipping is probably related to reading a cd-r. Try a pitted aluminum cd before you toss it. I have an aiwa portable i use in the car. Their system is eass. It works in every position with a stamped cd. With a cd-r i have to wedge it between the seat and the console so it spins vertical or it skips every second. My only guess is the laser has an easier time focusing on the dye layer when the player is on edge.
A quick read of the amazon reviews shows this rca "supports" cdr about as well as my aiwa. At least this video inspired me to try the Sony, which clearly has a different pickup assembly.
I never have issues removing hardened battery acid with white vinegar. WD40 also works in emulsifying it. I'm sure there's other solutions as well. One always hopes the terminals aren't destroyed after you remove the crud.
The head derailed from the track when it loosened from the end of the worm screw motor shaft on an Onn model (Wal-Mart I guess) I picked up for cheap. It was like a miniature garage door opener rail system in there! lol! The radio HAD NO AM! Just FM.
Thomson were bloody awful. They destroyed several formerly-distinguished manufacturers in Europe as well like SABA, Telefunken, Nordmende and Ferguson. Truly the Chrysler of consumer electronics. This will have been made long after 1988 of course, it just looks like a generic Chinese player to me. Possibly even a RatShack special?
Vinegar neutralizes the acid and cleans the terminals and battery housing well. I am surprised you didn't go to that - I probably learned it from you, anyhow.
RCA(Rugs Chickens & Automobiles) ruined itself didn't it?, With things like their CED videodisks. And Thomson bought the brand, to put on whatever chinesium things.
All this time I thought they stood for Recycled Crap Always. CED wasn't their only blunder, their failures in the broadcasting industry is also what helped Sony dominate with the BetaCam format among other things.
BETACAM succeeded because it was the perfect format. Make no mistake Sony was very smart in choosing that cassette size when they devoloped beta. The home beta was just the low end of the spectrum. From day one sony had planned the broadcast version. They took the u-matic and made it smaller. BETACAM development paralled betamax. Initially it was going to use the beta1 speed and be a composite format just like u-matic. That was the concept but they decided to run the tape at 3x the speed and go for a component recording format and the betacam was born and the broadcast word took note. Incidentally CBS had a hand in this.
I bet the RCA failed because of a bad bearing. Well, that how my Goodmans player killed its shock protection. My Goodmans has a very noisy motor bearing thus as the player spins the disc faster to fill the shock protection buffer there is a large amount of vibration on the disc beyond the point where the pickup can quickly compensate. Now in my Goodmans, it does indeed compensate but it fills the buffer extremely slowly. I think it is a bearing issue because if I turn the player on its side of upside down, the noise and the buffer fill slowness magically vanishes. Also, if I turn off the shock protection, it all plays fine but it has that motor noise and is extremely sensitive to the lightest of touches. Again, on its side or upside down and the problem goes away. I have only just wondered if the hub platen thing, whatever it is called, may be a little too low on the motor shaft and is in fact catching on something. Or maybe the motor bearing is dry and a dot of oil will help. Well, it doesn't matter anyway as I have two Sonys too and when I want to be portable I tend to use my minidiscs.
would you recommend today buying a 1000€/$ bluray for being able to read everything, or do you think it's better just buying a good cd player to keep in the future and buying a cheaper bluray, due to the continous change in video supports? I'm scared a bluray is too complicated and delicate to last or to repair in the future. thank you
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 What justifys the cost of a bugati or Lamborghini? My 90 Blu-ray player plays all the formats and has Netflix and UA-cam built in. It plays music in wav, mp3, aac, flac. It will play music on CD CDR cdrw DVD-R DVD+r dvd-rw DVD+rw, BDR, bdre, and plays video from DVD, DVD+-r /+-rw, plays avchd disks from my little HD camera that records to DVD, bdr and bdre. It also has a USB port and can play mpg2 and mp4 video files along with the m2ts and other HD video formats on USB stick. For 90 bucks I would say that's pretty good. On top of that i opened it up. Has a bsl spindle motor so it will spin disks for years and never fail.
Somehow the two RCA LCD TVs my parents have still work after 15 years. Granted, they're CCFL-backlit so maybe it's hard to screw THOSE up, but not even a power issue with them!
Actually it should be safe to touch the alkaline powder from this type of batteries. They calculated safe amounts of exposure a long time ago. It is a very low concentration. Obviously you should not lick your fingers but if you wash your hands before eating something, you'll be fine.
Was there another one. I wasn't paying attention. My mind was riding motorcycles which is exactly what i dib when I finished shooting this. Went die a nice long ride to have lunch. A ride long enough that it was dinner time when i got home and I was walking like a cowboy.
What you don't like the dentist? What's wrong with you. Everyone is supposed to live their dentist. After all we give them a good portion of our salary.
Not true I have several Sony Walkmans from the mid 2000s. They all play MP3 and Sonys ill-fated proprietary format Atrac3plus. It wasnt till around 2008 Sony pulled back on MP3 cd Walkmans.
it's really just alkalines and the heavy duty batteries you have to worry about. lithiums and rechargables don't really do this, at least not that I know of.
yes that's what puts them in the junk pile here. I hate the portables with fiddly controls as well and no buffer. Some of the early Technics are an exception because they are engineered beautifully. Some of these are just those blister pack CD players. It's funny when you can sell the original Power brick for more than the CD player.
I remember those RCA units in the clearance bins at places like Big Lots in the early 2000's. Junk then and junk now.
I had one of the Technics SL-XP units in 1987 grade 8 .. it was so futuristic LOL the real cats meow around the school - bought it with Asparagus picking money same year as buying the original Nintendo System. Listened to Rubber Soul thousands of times on that player.
@12voltvids: did you turn off the AVLS function at the Sony Discman? If it is turned on it will lower the volume on the headphone output to protect your ears for damage and that's not needed when using this output as an line level output. Almost every Sony had that function (Cassette walkmans, portable discman's and portable minidisc players / recorders).
I never tried dremel on contacts. But I did use vinegar on a cotton swab. (Not dripping wet). If it was an acid cell, I'd using a solution of baking soda.
I almost bought a portable CD player like those. But I didn't.
Oh, I had an idea to prevent people from leaving batteries in their devices. Make it beep like a smoke detector if not used for a certain period of time. The only way to shut off the beep is to open the battery compartment and take out the batteries. Putting them back in resets it. I know, people wouldn't like it, but it could prevent damage due to leakage.
I would just take the batteries out to keep it quiet until I was ready to use it again.
10:48 it may say on the box, and within the owner’s manual, that it has anti-skip feature, but I can tell that in real life testing, the company didn’t mean it. Whoever took over RCA for this kind of junk, i’m sure the customers aren’t happy and they know it. What the anti-skip feature on portable CD players is supposed to do is as follows: the laser mechanism buffers ahead data by seconds; thus, spinning the disc faster. And while the mechanism may stop reading for the amount of seconds it buffered, the music still plays smoothly. It should be coming from the ram, making the listening experience seamless while on the go. I hope that’s my best description of how the anti-skip feature works.
White vinegar on battery leaks works a treat
Seen many CD players that claim to read CD-RW but don’t read them at all. It’s usually the Sony KSS213 lasers.
Maybe the laser inside the player has faded such that it can't reliably read CD-RWs or the CD-RWs you've tried to use are old and "worn".
I've had the same issue of CD players not reading the CD-RW disc I had laying around properly, sometimes it would read, but the audio was constantly "fading" in and out and MP3s burnt to that disc wouldn't play at all. I got a fresh pack of CD-RWs and they work just fine, even after a couple of rewrites.
As elektrokinesis said, the issue with the rca skipping is probably related to reading a cd-r. Try a pitted aluminum cd before you toss it. I have an aiwa portable i use in the car. Their system is eass. It works in every position with a stamped cd. With a cd-r i have to wedge it between the seat and the console so it spins vertical or it skips every second. My only guess is the laser has an easier time focusing on the dye layer when the player is on edge.
Possibly but this isn't so old that CDR did not exist when it was new.
It's an RCA RP2502 which supports CD-R according to the manual. (I mistakingly first said it also supports MP3 but the manual doesn't indicate that)
A quick read of the amazon reviews shows this rca "supports" cdr about as well as my aiwa. At least this video inspired me to try the Sony, which clearly has a different pickup assembly.
Lawn mower noises
I never have issues removing hardened battery acid with white vinegar. WD40 also works in emulsifying it. I'm sure there's other solutions as well. One always hopes the terminals aren't destroyed after you remove the crud.
Sandpaper removed the crud nicely too.
@@12voltvids well yes your method works great as well
The head derailed from the track when it loosened from the end of the worm screw motor shaft on an Onn model (Wal-Mart I guess) I picked up for cheap. It was like a miniature garage door opener rail system in there! lol! The radio
HAD NO AM! Just FM.
Thomson were bloody awful. They destroyed several formerly-distinguished manufacturers in Europe as well like SABA, Telefunken, Nordmende and Ferguson. Truly the Chrysler of consumer electronics.
This will have been made long after 1988 of course, it just looks like a generic Chinese player to me. Possibly even a RatShack special?
ug blister pack CD players - Radio Shack had lots of good gear through the years but I don't recall a nice CD player they offered.
Vinegar neutralizes the acid and cleans the terminals and battery housing well. I am surprised you didn't go to that - I probably learned it from you, anyhow.
That only works for alkaline batteries. Not for other types such as nice or nimh leakage.
Loving the content as usual. :)
I think they sell a paste that you can put on the battery contacts to keep them from getting corroded in the future.
I had one of those RCA portable CD players. I can't remember what happened to it though.
I only like those small CD players that have a window on the door to see the cd spinning!!!!!!
That particular Walkman doesnt support MP3 decoding. That is a bare bones model, that came out near the end of the CD Walkman era.
RCA(Rugs Chickens & Automobiles) ruined itself didn't it?, With things like their CED videodisks. And Thomson bought the brand, to put on whatever chinesium things.
All this time I thought they stood for Recycled Crap Always. CED wasn't their only blunder, their failures in the broadcasting industry is also what helped Sony dominate with the BetaCam format among other things.
BETACAM succeeded because it was the perfect format. Make no mistake Sony was very smart in choosing that cassette size when they devoloped beta. The home beta was just the low end of the spectrum. From day one sony had planned the broadcast version. They took the u-matic and made it smaller. BETACAM development paralled betamax. Initially it was going to use the beta1 speed and be a composite format just like u-matic. That was the concept but they decided to run the tape at 3x the speed and go for a component recording format and the betacam was born and the broadcast word took note. Incidentally CBS had a hand in this.
I bet the RCA failed because of a bad bearing. Well, that how my Goodmans player killed its shock protection.
My Goodmans has a very noisy motor bearing thus as the player spins the disc faster to fill the shock protection buffer there is a large amount of vibration on the disc beyond the point where the pickup can quickly compensate. Now in my Goodmans, it does indeed compensate but it fills the buffer extremely slowly.
I think it is a bearing issue because if I turn the player on its side of upside down, the noise and the buffer fill slowness magically vanishes.
Also, if I turn off the shock protection, it all plays fine but it has that motor noise and is extremely sensitive to the lightest of touches. Again, on its side or upside down and the problem goes away.
I have only just wondered if the hub platen thing, whatever it is called, may be a little too low on the motor shaft and is in fact catching on something. Or maybe the motor bearing is dry and a dot of oil will help.
Well, it doesn't matter anyway as I have two Sonys too and when I want to be portable I tend to use my minidiscs.
would you recommend today buying a 1000€/$ bluray for being able to read everything, or do you think it's better just buying a good cd player to keep in the future and buying a cheaper bluray, due to the continous change in video supports? I'm scared a bluray is too complicated and delicate to last or to repair in the future. thank you
Cheap Bluray player that plays all the formats.
@@12voltvids thank you
what would justify the cost of a $2000 BluRay player? I call that BluRape.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 don't know who talked about 2000$ player
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
What justifys the cost of a bugati or Lamborghini?
My 90 Blu-ray player plays all the formats and has Netflix and UA-cam built in. It plays music in wav, mp3, aac, flac. It will play music on CD CDR cdrw DVD-R DVD+r dvd-rw DVD+rw, BDR, bdre, and plays video from DVD, DVD+-r /+-rw, plays avchd disks from my little HD camera that records to DVD, bdr and bdre. It also has a USB port and can play mpg2 and mp4 video files along with the m2ts and other HD video formats on USB stick. For 90 bucks I would say that's pretty good. On top of that i opened it up. Has a bsl spindle motor so it will spin disks for years and never fail.
Lemon juice on corroded battery contacts will work, just then thorough clean water wipe down .
It will neutralize the custic mess but won't restore conductivity of the contact that needs to be ground off
Somehow the two RCA LCD TVs my parents have still work after 15 years. Granted, they're CCFL-backlit so maybe it's hard to screw THOSE up, but not even a power issue with them!
Ccfl TV's very reliable.
Actually it should be safe to touch the alkaline powder from this type of batteries. They calculated safe amounts of exposure a long time ago. It is a very low concentration. Obviously you should not lick your fingers but if you wash your hands before eating something, you'll be fine.
You forgot to mention that every time you do this. There's a lawn mower in the background
Was there another one. I wasn't paying attention. My mind was riding motorcycles which is exactly what i dib when I finished shooting this. Went die a nice long ride to have lunch. A ride long enough that it was dinner time when i got home and I was walking like a cowboy.
That's how I lost a
Sony DN-F 420 I think. Unreal EQ it had!
Oh no another dental trip with the Drexel help me
What you don't like the dentist? What's wrong with you. Everyone is supposed to live their dentist. After all we give them a good portion of our salary.
those surface mount suckers!
RCA CD player probably could've used some lubrication on the pickup slide thingie...
15:28 Sony really saw MP3s as some sort of pirate format in the early 00s. CDs were the future I guess they thought.
I have a few of the earliest CD players that plated mp3.
Not true I have several Sony Walkmans from the mid 2000s. They all play MP3 and Sonys ill-fated proprietary format Atrac3plus. It wasnt till around 2008 Sony pulled back on MP3 cd Walkmans.
Thomson was GE.
And also a nother reason not to leave your batteries in your portable devices 😮
it's really just alkalines and the heavy duty batteries you have to worry about. lithiums and rechargables don't really do this, at least not that I know of.
@@JessicaFEREM they all still leak my friend they all still leak. No matter what it is.
@@LILM79847 never had a lithium leak. it's an entirely different technology
if a lithium battery leaked it could start a fire.
@@JessicaFEREM yes I know, but still though.
some of these devices have serious issues playing CD-Rs
yes that's what puts them in the junk pile here. I hate the portables with fiddly controls as well and no buffer. Some of the early Technics are an exception because they are engineered beautifully. Some of these are just those blister pack CD players. It's funny when you can sell the original Power brick for more than the CD player.