[Midnite Mick]

I have had a jolida jd100 cdp sitting on the shelf for the last 8 months doing nothing.  I tried some different tubes (ei elite) that I had not used before and I was hearing a constant ticking sound.  I thought it was because the new tubes were bad but I put the old ones in this evening, that I was using previously(Sovtek) and it is still doing this. I did not have this issue before that I am aware of.  Any suggestions as to the cause.

Thank you in advance
Mike

[arthurs]

are you hearing the ticking through your speakers or from the player itself...?

[Midnite Mick]

It is definately coming through the speakers.  However, I just put my ear against the player spinning a cd and I think I could hear it slightly as well.  It was like I could here the cd spinning but it wasn't in a uniform manner.  Not totally sure to be honest.

Mike

[arthurs]

hearing it from the player is not too surprising, transport noise, etc...but the speakers is a weird one....here's a strange question, you don't have a cell phone near it when it happens do you?

[DARTH AUDIO]

Mike, what don't you go straight to the source? Call Mike @ Jolida. I've had a JD100(highly modified) for 3 years with ZERO problems. Here is Jolida's contact info. BTW,  more times than not, Mike will answer the phone.

JoLida Inc.
10820 Guilford Road, Suite 209
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

Tel: (301) 953-2014
Fax: (301) 498-0554

[email protected]

[Midnite Mick]

Alright, somewhat embarrassed of my lack of competence but here goes.

I came home from work today, made sure the tubes were deeply seated and refired it up.  The problem remained however.  I previously thought it was weird how half of the board with the tubes in it were attached to the chassis and the other half was just resting on these "pins".  It was like this when I got it but it didn't result in any issues.  I looked into this further and realized that there were holes under the chassis for screws that go into these "pins".   So I went to The Source by Circuit City (more like Radio Shack than the American Circuit City) and purchased a couple multi pack screws in the hopes that I would find ones that fit.  Well I screwed the 2 missing screws in that pertained to that board along with tightening several others all over the base of the chassis. 

I fired it up again, had time for about 4 songs before I had to step out and the problem did not show.  I got home about 3 hours ago and it has been playing non-stop without occurrence.  So it looks like all is good.   I wonder why it did not show before, because these screws have been missing since I acquired the player.  Maybe because the gear was setup differently and on different furniture.

Thanks for taking the time out to help,
Mike