Audio Aero Capitole MK II: Performance & Problems

IT is very simple to find out if you have the new chip or not.Remove the cover with an allen key.You will see a chip with an orange dot.If it has just the dot with no writing(it should say p2(in hand written ink) which is the new chip)) than you have the old chip.

Sattothestars: Thanks for your input. I thought I had the new chip since my player says: "READING CD". I guess maybe I don't. However, I have not had any other problems, other than its inability to read the CD-R's.

I have the new chip, but burned a CD-R at 1X and it will not play in the Capitole. According to Globe Marketing, it's because my CD burner (Marantz DR 6050) is not recording to the exact Red Book standard.

Did you physicaly check you had the P2 chip?I have received players that did and some that did not.The only way to know is to remove the cover and look.It is located inside toward the face of the cd player.It is a tight squeeze as the transport mechanism is only about half an inch away form the circuit board.

I have also received my Capitole MK2 and have tried 4 different kinds of cdr's and it played ALL of them! In fact it even played the ones I made with the cheapest CDR blanks you can buy. I bought 100 blanks from CDW computers and the blanks look just like the Sony playstation cd game disks, they are solid BLACK on the laser side!!!!

The one time (out of 100) that the player failed to read all the cd tracks, I had to open and close the cd door so that it would reinitiallize the reading of the TOC and then it was fine and has been ever since.