The Sony CDP-970 that remembers your discs

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  @sgramling771 · 1 month ago

  This is Scott, the owner of this CDP-970. Hats off to Graham for another excellent video! I also enjoyed the LED fix and the disc programming. I think the tray may be zinc, but I&apos;m sure someone knows the answer.<br><br>I found this player on eBay as a parts only machine, and decided to take a chance on it because I wanted to hear the BB PCM58s. I targeted the 970 for the combination of PCM58s and an easy to source KSS-150A/210A pickup. I think it sounds great. I found an original remote (RM-D570) at a reasonable price which makes operation nice. I didn&apos;t send it because I was trying to fit the spare parts into the box. <br><br>Thanks so much to Graham for saving another vintage player!

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  @billzumwalt324 · 1 month ago

  I love watching you work . Really appreciate how methodical and detailed you are . Your commentary is just right too, no hyperbole.

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  @hillstones · 1 month ago

  Hey Graham, great repair! &nbsp;If you have the Sony remote, entering a custom file is much easier because the remote has a full selection of buttons of alphanumeric characters and numbers, so you can easily label a disc quickly with the remote. &nbsp;I had the Sony CDP-C70 5 Disc changer in the late 80s and that was the first model that featured Custom File, and I loved it. &nbsp;I now have a Sony CDP-C910 10 disc and CDP-C701ES, both with Custom File, and later models like these had a &apos;dot matrix&apos; type display so the Custom File text was much easier to read compared to the older displays like on this 970 model. &nbsp;It was a cool feature, before the CD-Text feature.

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  @YellowJello57 · 1 month ago

  That led filament fix was terrific

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  @TheSudsy · 1 month ago

  2 classic albums and a beaut of a player.

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  @mark902 · 1 month ago

  imagine a time at sony when in a single years lineup you had the cdp-170, 270, 370, 470, 570, 770, and 970... and then the ES line above that... and the R-series seperate transport and dac at the tippy top... how the mighty have fallen. 😔

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  @amplepattern · 1 month ago

  Fun fact: the disc file system at least on some units has a programmable slot for the &quot;no disc&quot; situation, so you can change the display from &quot;No disc&quot; or similar to &quot;FEED ME&quot;, which is fo course what I did on mine.

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  @Poppinwheeeeellllllieeeeez · 1 month ago

  I enjoy the fact that you do not use flux unnecessarily. I watch a lot of techs online slathering on flux creating cancerous fumes for absolutely no reason. Well done. Another W.

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  @MegaBobsel · 1 month ago

  After just watching Techmoan buying dvd and blu-ray players to play cd&apos;s and having him rant about the lack of basically anything on those players and then seeing this player, made me realise how good we actually had it.

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  @DgaDM · 1 month ago

  This player was from the (in my opinion) peak Sony era. The effort that went into that little volume switch alone, which most of the people wouldn&apos;t even bother to use because the variable output was deemed of having lower quality, is impressive.

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  @Sonnell · 1 month ago

  Those premium (upgraded) plastics are often glass fibre reinforced plastics. They are indeed very good materials!

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  @MrMichaelfalk · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW2dqE2InA&amp;t=1105">18:25</a> &quot;is this really worth it&quot;...YES!

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