Reaga Apollo At My Local Trhift

It's funny how CD players are becoming what turntables were 25 years ago...

Unwanted junk you could find in thrift stores for next to nothing. :-)

That Apollo you picked up was a good deal. I've been enjoying mine for years.

Regards,
Tom

It's difficult to say why the cable worked loose. Perhaps your Apollo suffered some rough handling during shipping/ownership.

The CD transport is suspended from the framework and incorporates an elastomer bumper to help isolate the transport from vibrations. But that elasicity may contribute to things working loose. With my Apollo, one of the hanger bolts came loose during shipping. I just popped the case and reattached the bolt and bumper. Never had another problem other than the occasional read errors on certain discs.

Regards,
Tom

Buyers remorse was never something I considered. Mild irritation at times, but I don't regret purchasing the Apollo. I've just come to accept that a few CDs will have to be rippped and burned to a CDR in order to play them. I'm more irritated at the music industry for using copyright protection on CDs; that's where the Apollo has most of its read problems. It will read and interpret the discs just fine when feeding the analog output but when using the digital outputs it chokes on certain protected CDs.

There have been a few CDs (out of hundreds) that would cause problems for the Apollo even in analog mode. But again, I just rip and burn to a CDR.

Tom