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Audio Dropping Out on Rega Apollo and Saturn

I borrowed a Rega Apollo and Saturn for home audition from my local dealer.

On both CD players, I experienced audio drop outs from some of my CDs as they were playing. I noticed that these CDs did have some minor scratches, but nothing major. When I would play these same CDs on my Jolida JD100 CD player, I never experienced these problems.

Are there any Rega Apollo or Saturn owners that have experienced this problem with some of their CDs? It seems like to me that Rega does not have a very good error correction system as the laser scans the CD. So if you do happen to have some CDs with scratches, it could hinder an otherwise pleasant listening experience.

If there is no clear explanation or work-around for this, then I have no choice but to remove these players from my consideration.
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Showing 1 response by brianmoriarty

brianmoriarty
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Hi everyone,
here we are 9 years later. Did rega ever own up to this manufacturing defect? Did they ever offer a software update? I still have my Apollo, it sounds great when it works.  I don’t listen to cds a ton anymore with my blue sound and turntable sounding so good. When i do listen to cds it’s a crap shoot if it will be relaxing or annoying experience. 
I love to hear rega eventually issued a software update.


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