replace toshiba sd9200 (1 Viewer)

[raymond caputo]

anyone that is familiar with this player knows that there was a vibration problem...there were rubber gaskets or bumpers that were sold to replace the original ones...now the vibration is back..anyone else have this problem..i am thinking of replacing this with a player that has sacd and dvda...i am very happy with the audio and video of this unit...so i would want to replace it with something as good or better....any suggestions??

 

[Jack Briggs]

Raymond, can you kindly go into more detail about the problems with vibration? I'm just curious. Reason being, on my bedroom player, a low-end Toshiba 2800 (probably not manufactured in Japan but in Taiwan), the disc tray has started to rattle when the unit is first fired up. If there's a disc in the tray, though, the weight of it stops the rattling.

 

[raymond caputo]

jack...its not a rattling,but more like a rumbling...usually after it plays for awhile it goes away..never the less, it is annoying

 

[Mark All]

I've never had the new damping kit installed in my SD-9200. I've found that I can eliminate the transport rumble altogether simply by gently pulling the disc tray all the way out before inserting a disc. Mine will rumble on half the discs I play on it unless I manually intervene before inserting a disc.

As far as getting something as good or better, video is no problem. In fact, a new $69 Toshiba SD-3960 I have performs better for video.

The audio section of the SD-9200 remains excellent though. It is better than my Denon DVD-2900 on CD and DVD-Audio. To equal or exceed the audio performance in a newer universal player, I'd suggest looking to the DVD-5900 or a Marantz or Pioneer player in the $1500 and up range.

 

[raymond caputo]

hey mark...thanks ..gently pulling the disc tray worked!! even though once a disc was inserted and played the rumble could not be heard unless you really put your ear to it..nevertheless, it still annoyed me...so now maybe to look for a player with excellent video performance with sacd as a bonus..