Musical Fidelity Tri Vista SACD

Drjohn - I'm afraid, the only solution is to sell your player for parts. The Philips drive mechanism used in TriVista (and also kw SACD) is no longer beeing made, and no longer available.

Krell had run into the same problem with their SACD Standard mk II players, but they were able to develop an 'upgrade' kit, that replaces the Philips transport with their evo series DVD-rom drive. That was certainly time consuming for them, but at least they did not leave their customers with nothing.

From what I read on British forums, MF in the UK was offering a great discounts (up to 50% off) on their current players for TriVista owners that faced a drive failure. You may ask US MF distributor about that too.

Anyone can take a Phillips drive out of about a million obsolete computers and put one in a MF CD player.

Unfortunately, that is not possible. This is niether a popular Philips CD drive, nor a DVD-rom drive. This is a dedicated Philips SACD drive.

The transport mechanism is only the part of the problem. Prolly even bigger problem is a servo board. When a drive goes, very often it takes out a servo board too. And those are literally unobtainable.

My advice: sell when it still works.

Need to get sth with a CD-Pro2 drive. This one is very reliable and is likely to be supported for years to come. A good drive doesn't mean that sth else within the CDP may brake down - as is the case with your Capitole. Personally, I have upgraded from the capitle mk II SE to MBL 1531 and found it to be a substantial improvement.