Can my old hi fi be repaired.?

Question

I have a aiwa hi fi system 15 years old holds 3 c ds, it wont pick up any c ds, i have used cleaning c ds prior to this to keep laser clean.

I dont want to part with it, it has a turn turntable, i like the sound quality. is it repairable?.

Answer 1

it is repairable but if you never done any electronics work you will probably mess it up, and taking it to a repairer would cost a bit. The cd pick up on Awia equipment is quite cheap, around £15 to £25 and you can get it from Grandata electronics (you would have to remove the old one first to see the reference).

http://www.grandata.co.uk/

sometimes you can get them to work by tweaking the potentiometer on the rear of the cd pick up  

Answer 2

Look at it this way - if you sold it, fully working, you might get about £5 - £10 for it.

To get it repaired will cost you around £50 - £75.

Do you want to spend 5 or 6 times its value to get it repaired, when you could by a brand new system, with far better sound quality?

Answer 3

You might just want to get a cheap CD player if it has some type of external input.  It probably would cost more than it is worth to fix it.