Marantz sa-1 stop playing

Try calling marantz customer service, their phone is (201) 762-6392

i have a marntz cd player the cd tray is suddenly very greasy and a black colour of the tray emits if you try to clean it up, which in turn also gets transfered to the cds whilst playing. any solutions

If it's a laser issue, try to contact this member "audioalex" as he seems to have a spare SA-1 laser for sale here last month; otherwise, contact Service Wide Technologies which is a Marantz authorized service center.
does your Marantz still play CDs?

I'm having the same problem with my SA-14. It stopped reading discs and no replacement part (If it's the laser mech) is available. It's been under my bed for well over a year and I'm sick about it. It was easily my best sounding cd player as it was also modded by Tube Research labs.

Add the Sa11S1 to the list of Marantz players that can't be repaired for bad lasers as well. After much back & forth between a Marantz authorized service center and Marantz's service department, all involved pronounced my Sa11S1 with laser problems to be unrepairable. Marantz had supposedly developed a replacement laser protocol with a different laser and a package of electronics parts replacements to allow the Sa11S1 to remain in service, but the repair center said the parts did not work. When I contacted Marantz and asked them about their supposed pledge to maintain repair parts in stock for five years after a product is purchased, Marantz's customer service couldn't do anything but mumble insincere sounding apologies. That experience left me very reluctant to invest large sums of money in any digital player in the future.