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- From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
- Subject: Re: Sony Equipment (was Re: CD walkmans)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223156.29673@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <Bzy9pI.EEJ@world.std.com> <1huc97INNnv1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <chiu-311292102704@222.8.248.8>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:31:56 GMT
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- In article <1huc97INNnv1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
- lcc@po.CWRU.Edu (Lih C. Chen) wrote:
-
- [ ... mention of long-playing CD player that needs to be run at a very cold
- ambient temperature deleted .... ]
-
- > Following this train of thought, I have a question for you technical
- > folx out there: Is it implied, then, that playing 2-3 hours of music,
- > even when you have to go through 2 or 4 CDs to do that, at regular
- > room temperature is bad for your current CD player?
-
- In article <chiu-311292102704@222.8.248.8>
- chiu@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com (Norman Chiu) writes:
-
- >...so the player was playing the same CD overnight for 12 hours straight!
- >Next morning he found that the player was still playing the same CD without
- >any problems. But when he removed the CD, it was REALLY warm.
-
- Well, the reason the first CD player (the prototypical one that can run
- a 3-hour disc) needed to be so cold is because the wavelength of the laser
- able to do that needs to be very short, and the only laser diode they've
- got that can do that needs to be run at nearly superconducting temperatures.
- It has nothing to do with running the player cool.
-
- Although it's not good in general to let things get *too* warm, you're
- probably going to get more problems with wear on the electromechanical stuff
- (motors) and the laser (reduced emissions over time) than you will with
- heat. Once a device gets to a certain temperature, if it's working OK, it's
- gonna stay there. His CD just finally got to the temperature of its
- surroundings.
-
- -Kenny
-
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