Audio Research CD2 randomly skips

I can't say as this is the answer...but the CD2 that I owned
some time back was not a great tracking CD player and would
skip quite a bit...needed the perfect CD to not have this
problem.

However if yours is truly random...not at the same place on
the same disk..you may have a different concern than I had.

Wish I could suggest a cure..but I just had the same concerns
and it was one of the reasons I sold it.

To add to my post above. I did not want to imply that the CD-2 is anything but a great sounding player...because it is. The tracking concerns with mine were likely because of surface concerns with the cd's. I have a young son that grew up listening to my Jazz collection...and now he has been in three or four High School bands each year including Jazz 1 and Honors...so if he wants to take my cd's to play in his car...or at a friends..or whatever...I let him. Sharing my music with him has paid off...and he now shares his with me. This does make for less than perfect cd's ....and that's O.K. with me. So, I needed players that would be able to track these less than perfect ones.

All said, sonically the CD-2 is very good.

It may be that CD's are becomming the 8-track of "the new century"...the one that began in 2001....not 2000.

Audiophile sonics and quality are not in keeping with the multi-channel/download mainstream. We must remember that one of the most successful ads of late is..."dude yur gettin a Dell".. Not exactly,..."high-end".