Thanks for the tip...I'll look into it. If it is something like that, I'll do it myself. I just don't think I can realign the laser as that supposedly takes some really precision calibration tools.
That makes a lot of sense and sounds very likely. My transport is basically sounding like, come to think of it, the spindle is grinding as it spins while playing SACDs. SACDs sound like they are spinning tons faster and you can hear it from the listening position.