Retro Cd player help please

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Hi guys I have a Technics SL-P 777 from (year 1989) and as a back up player/room 2 I have a Yamaha cdx596 pro-bit (from 1999)

If I play Cd's with even light tiny scratches the players skip a bit, the Yamaha basically doesn't play... Technics skips a tiny bit (bearable)

My car, PS3 and Blu-ray player play fine

What's going on here? do the players have weak lasers? could this be resolved by turning the gain up on the laser?

Is it just time to give up on retro my hi-fi stuff :mad::mad::mad:
 
Today changed the laser on the Yamaha
Will play all my battered old CDs now fine

Guess the technics is goosed or dying... And can't find a replacement laser for it
 
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