Has anyone here ever experienced any factory-pressed silver or gold
original CD's that play defectively in at least some CD players but
have absolutely no visible signs or indications of such on the bottom
(playing) sides of the discs themselves & even appear to be in
perfectly new/mint condition?
I ask this because on Tuesday (Oct. 9th), I bought the new Eric
Clapton compilation 2-CD "Complete Clapton" and unfortunately have
discovered that for approx. the last 30 or 60 seconds or so of the 2nd
disc, which is slightly more than 76 minutes long (approx. 76:06), it
plays with a terrible skipping/freezing/dropout problem in most of my
CD players on computers, which I've noticed over the last 10 years as
being much more sensitive to any defects on CD's than stand-alone CD
players, while it plays perfectly fine in most of my stand-alone CD
players. Ironically, the disc appears to be in absolutely perfect new/
mint condition, as I just bought it on Tues. - no defects at all are
visible on it! Absolutely none at all!
A few months ago, I got the quite rare Pink Floyd gold 2-CD "Atom
Heart Mother - Collectors Edition" (SQ label), and its first disc also
appears to be in perfectly new/mint condition. While it plays
perfectly in most of my stand-alone CD players, it plays with a
similarly terrible skipping/freezing/dropout problem in its last 2-3
minutes in all of my computer CD players. The total playing time of
the disc is more than 76 minutes (approx. 76:26).
And furthermore, several years ago, I got the Pink Floyd 1-CD digi-
pack "The Complete Zabriskie Point Sessions" (Two Certain Somebodies -
SLUT002), and its disc also appeared to be in perfectly new/mint
condition. And it also plays with a similarly terrible skipping/
freezing/dropout problem in its last minute or so. And it also runs
more than 76 minutes long (approx. 77:15). An unusual coincidence, or
does being more than 76 minutes long have anything at all to do with
these strange defects at or near the very end of each of the discs?
Anyway, I eventually got another one ("Complete Zabriskie Point
Sessions"), but while it also appears to be in perfectly new/mint
condition, it turned out to play with essentially the same skipping/
freezing/dropout problem in its last minute or so. Eventually I
discovered even more bizarre problems with it - such as several of its
15 tracks playing perfectly fine in a CD-playing drive of one of my
PC's while the rest of its tracks are completely unplayable in the
same CD player - believe it or not!
So does anyone have any helpful advice on what I should do? On Thurs.
I'm going to call the person who runs the music store from which I
bought the "Complete Clapton" 2-CD set on Tues. and at least let him
know about my unusual predicament, but based on all the facts I
mentioned above, I'm betting that if he gets me another one to replace
it, it will probably turn out to have the same defect. As for the
"Atom Heart Mother - Collectors Edition" 2-CD set that I got a few
months ago, unfortunately I still haven't been able to find another
person who owns it in order to find out whether or not theirs possibly
has the same defect.
So any efforts to help will be greatly appreciated - thanks, as always.
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