There’s a certain order in which things need to be taken out and there are some very small wires and fragile flex cables which need some care, but patience paid off in the end. It sits within the larger Cyrus tray drive assembly and it is a little fiddly to get out but, with a little coaxing and a few expletives, out it came. This small unit houses the spinning motor, laser and laser drive motor.
So the Philips unit in question is the CDM12.4 – this I found out quickly from t’internet. I’ve been on a bit of a make-do-and-mend roll lately so I decided on the latter option, based on the assumption that the Philips mechanism (possibly the laser diode) was failing.
MISSION CYRUS 1 UPGRADE
So what to do? Send it to Cyrus to repair (about £300), upgrade to something new (equivalent player now is about £1200) or attempt to fix it myself. I assumed the mechanism had been replaced and I soon forgot about it, until the other day. I remember being vaguely aware at the time that the dAD3 was built around a Philips CD transport/laser mechanism that others – many with different players using the same mechanism – had mentioned they were having trouble with. It came back unchanged so I sent a couple of the affected CDs off to Cyrus, together with the player again, and this time it came back totally fixed. I remembered having a warranty repair soon after I’d first bought it, since it failed to recognise a handful of my CDs, yet was fine with all others. Realising there was something seriously wrong, I was not a jovial rabbit. Recently, though, CDs started to periodically mute and, before long, failed to play or even be recognised. It’s still a very decent player even by today’s standards and it’s been fault-free for many years. I’ve had my Cyrus dAD3 (later updated with Q module) since 1997.
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