The ESP/ASP basically buffers the music from the CD, saves some seconds of music ahead so if bumped, it doesnt skip. Depending on the CD player, it'll buffer 10-30 seconds of music. For those CD players with 30 seconds of buffer, they tend to stop the CD to save on power making them last a little longer.

Literally found my childhood one again yesterday, ahhh the memory's

I'm 52 years old and I still using the portable cd player 👍

That ASP is just buffering the audio data into a small cache memory that’s enough to store 10 seconds worth as it says. Loads of portable CD players ended up using something similar. Ah someone beat me to it, that’s a really cool design though for a portable CD player.

That looks like a clone of my old Sony Discman groove. I loved that thing.

awesome job! but be careful and take note of the gauge wire you use especially when it comes to power lines. the thin kynar wire you used could get hot and melt/ burn from the inside out and cause problems later on.

@Elliot_Coll mate, please get some heavier gauge black wire and redo the negative connection on that, the enameled wire may get hot

I had this very same CD player when I was in secondary school (late 90's if I remember correctly). Even the same horrible yellow. But I loved it; you could shake it for 10-seconds without music skipping.

ASP does nothing more than just buffering the track (by reading it at a bit faster speed than strictly required for playback) so when an skips occurs (because of the lens losing track) it only affects the data being added at the end of buffer instead of what you're currently playing from the beginning. Simple stuff to do on digital, very difficult on analog.

Actually, I really love this a lot, because I now know how to fix a faulty button I have on a portable CD player I've had for ages! It's actually the only reason I'm not still using it! Thanks, Elliot!

Finally another restoration video

I love watching these little fixing videos! I'm into portable cassette players myself and your videos are great for tutorials and troubleshooting, even if you don't think they're anything special. I watch some of your console videos too and I love them, but I'm really into the ones where you fix music players and stuff! I also have the iFixit screwdriver kit you often use, I bought it a few years back to open and fix my Wii U Pro controller!

0:11 that was also the case with my gameboy color that I restored last week The seller said *JUNK Does not work* but it worked flawlessly

a good video. I like to see old tech, simple fixes to get working. I was at the charity shop. Looking for something that in the words of that crazy Aussie bloke. Dont turn it on, tear it apart. I got a personal cd player, and a speaker dock, thing. Both boxed. £2 each. Nothing fancy. So if they dont work, and I cant fix them, no great loss. tried the 2 things. full working order. I was upset as I dont get to play with my screwdrivers. I took the cd player on a bus trip to the next town. the batteries it come with, seemingly original ones, lasted all the trip.

This vid made me want to collect cd's, i've always wanted a cd player when i was a kid but never got one

I had a portable CD player when I was a kid, but one slight movement and there'd be a nice deep groove made on the disc

The day before you published this video I was wishing to buy one to play all my home cds

I like that transparrant door as you can see the CD spinning.

ASP makes the disc spin faster and loads the music in to memory. In car CD players used the same technology.

The "anti-shock protection" cashes some seconds of the CD, so when a shock occurs, the player continue playing from cash memory while quickly re-positioning the laser. Simple, but effective, I think it's kinda unnecessary to be able to switch it off.

Always fun to see people trying to not scratch the CD by putting it upside down. Which is even worse, since the information layer is located on the top of the CD. And it’s very fragile, and can’t be repaired. It scratches off really easily. A scratched underside can be repaired however... better to plop the disk down with the label facing up.

No need to apologise man. I dig these videos as much as the GameBoy videos on the first channel.

Originally from Argos. I think the anti skip protection actually buffers the audio in a small amount of memory.

What a pleasant little video

Would be excited to see more discman vids on your channel

I had the same model but under the Jensen Label. Was cool to see the cd spinning

I hate those wires you cant solder to but why did you not excange the seemingly broken capacitor? Just cleaning the area will not make it repaired.

love watching retro music player repairs! Minidisc next please!

I’m amazed to see you be blown away by the ASP. Back in high school we were judging each other players bu comparing the ASP buffer, I remember my friend had a 40 second on his. That thing also went through batteries like Cookie Monster thru a chocolate chip cookie bag.

Also, love the channels. And love that G Shock you reviewed and are wearing. I was born in 1984 and loving you discovering these items and your love for them. You have been an inspiration to get back into Game Boys and build a nice little collection and actually mod a few. Cheers.

Pretty good job. I just fixed up a Realistic CD-3200 CD player from 1988 with mountains of alkaline cakes in the battery compartment and old 80s foam everywhere. Aside from this, I also just cleaned up a Sony Discman D-131 that needed an entire new laser mech assembly as the old laser died. If you ever need to replace the laser mech in one of these things... Do your research on fine tuning and calibration beforehand, as it will always need doing. It's a dark art. I'd love to see you try and fix an older portable CD player from the 80s. Toshiba made a couple, but the real fun is the small time companies you don't see that often. There's a Citizen CBM-777 in the states right now that's all white with red and blue buttons... And it's listed as non-working. I'd recommend you that as a challenge... But do remember that it's probably center negative for the DC jack out the back.

Yeah someone probably already said something but that wire you replaced looks... much too thin 😜 edit: yeah forgot this is battery powered... and like not li-ion batteries, so the wiring should be alright, sorry!

I love watching all the repairs. Keep them coming man.

"So far I've only broken it more". Good old Argos Alba/Bush build quality. This may not be a sort after CD Player, but it's interesting none the less. Nice one Elliot! ✌️😀

Pretty good lil ep. Enjoyed it.

Fun fact, ALBA belongs to Citizen and Seiko. 1990's to early 2000's this was our daily entertainment DVD and Blu-ray didn't exist but only VHS and Laser Disc

Very Cool makes me miss my old Blue and Silver Sony Diskman player

These things are great for areas with common power outages in the winter.

Anti-skip works by buffering the next several seconds of the currently playing track (shown with that little display you noted), so that when you're moving around it's simply playing the track from memory. If you continually shake the player for example (not recommended, obviously) you will see the little buffer display slowly empty because it will run out of preloaded track. Later models like Sony's CD Walkman with G-Shock Protection had a really robust version of this, I don't think I've ever managed to get one of those to skip.

I have long been a fan of the Alba brand (the British Alba which this CD player is) as being of Scottish and Irish descent Alba is the old name for Scotland. I also love the watch brand which was always aimed at the younger of mind by Seiko which is why Alba's tend to be a bit more funky than the bog standard Seiko, kinda like Pulsar which was always a brand aimed at the American market. You should look up the Alba AKA subbrand... like the Seiko Wired or the Pulsar Spoon just super sexeh funky looking watches ftw :)

I have a different model but all the electronics are the same, the ASP is a buffer, when activated you'll see the disc rev up, it fills the memory with some seconds of audio what you are listening to is not the direct output of the disc but the integrated digital buffer, if the disc skips you keep listening the audio normally and the disc revs up again to compensate. Imagine a water resevoir, you have an input and an output, when you open the water it starts flowing from the output of the resevoir at a steady rate, the water resevoir fills up at a faster rate quickly to keep up with the demand, when full the water enters the resevoir at the same rate it is being emptied, if the water supply fails the resevoir will keep emptying at a steady rate, when the water supply comes back but it will have to fill up faster than it's emptying to fill up again. That's how this works. If the water supply doesn't fill up in time the tank will deplete, same with this, if the disc keeps skipping or is dirty the buffer will empty out and lose audio.

That's a good looking CD player - I see on the back a switch for "charge or normal" - I have a player that does that too, you can put NiCd in there and charge them in the player off the mains. Quite a handy feature.

I truly could see these vids all on the same channel to be honest! It's retro for a different generation compared to "tech moan" or "technology connections". Great work either way. Keep it up. By the way congrats on the car!

Nice fix! That’s a gorgeous looking portable; I’d never normally go for anything like Alba, or Bush, etc, but wow, I love the look of this with it’s clear plastic lid!! Seems to offer some good features too, like the anti-skip buffer, which looks to work well! I’m going to have to. Keep an eye on Ebay for one of these! 🙂👍

The anti shock works by loading 10 seconds of the track into memory at a time. It would still be skipping if you continually shake it for more than 10 seconds.

Nicely done! Perks of being up at 6am, is vids from overseas being up. Lol

You know, I still kinda miss CD players

Love the repairs, keep doing these theyre always interesting!

I believe the anti shock preloads a few seconds of a track in memory.

I wanna put on this alice dj music!

I had one of those, it was crap, bought a Woolworths own brand with 40 Second ESP, still have it and it works

Nostalgia ❤️❤️❤️

that strap in the battery compartment is meant to go behind the batteries, you pull up on it to eject the batteries easier.

It's not ANTI SCHOCK system, it's just standard rubber antivibration mount used in all laser devices. Even stationary PlayStation has it.

Format? YES Erase all data? YES You are about to format your memory card. Continue? YESSSS

ASP has a small memory buffer to store the music in it. If the player skips, it will read it again and because of the buffer, you wont notice it (at least not for some time - you see on the top it says "10 second ASP"). To turn it off makes not so much sense in a portable unit, but ofc. directly reading from CD is better than compress and store it and have a small delay in it because of the memory buffer.

this is the earliest ive ever been! Good morning to you Elliot! great video as always

People who say you should use vinegar to clean corrosion are usually missing a step, there. Yes, your entry level chemistry tells you that using an acid to neutralise a base is a good idea, but unless you’ve used precisely the right amount, at the right concentration, and no more, you’re just going to swap your alkaline environment for an acidic one. If you use vinegar, ethanoic acid, to clean up battery corrosion, you must practically flood it with alcohol, next, to make sure you aren’t leaving acid behind.

I have like 6 or 7 portable cd players over the years, since the 90's haha And they all stopped working for one reason or another. I wonder if I could fix them. Some of them are practically brand new looking still.

Very similar problem, thanks!

That's awesome I remember having one of those as well as a og Walkman !

It seems a bit bulky for a personal CD player from the early 2000s but I suppose it's an off-brand player so it's probably trailing edge compared to the CD Walkmans... Walkmen? that Sony was putting out at the time. I have a CD Walkman that's also a radio from 2004 (Sony CD Walkman D-NF430) and it's one of those circle-shaped CD Walkmen with a diameter barely bigger than the CD itself and which is only around 3cm thick. The transparent CD lid is cool, I'll give ALBA a point for presentation.

my mum: don't touch battery corrosion! Elliot: touches every bit of corrosion on the battery terminals

I enjoy devices that use standard AA batteries, but they allow you to charge them when you plug rechargeables in by switching it into charge mode.

Damn Alba has some really old stuff

Thanks, I enjoyed it.

Thank you dude. I needed this. My brain is melting from the election over here in the states and your videos are a nice relaxing break from everything.

Nice fix/restore video for new diyers For sound and build quality, I would stick with Sony, philips, Panasonic branded players. I have been collecting them for years now, maybe have 30-40 models made from 1987-2010 or so. Fun for nostalgia, but still a functional, serious piece of music gear, as CDs 💿 are still considered an audiophile format. Also many players have am fm and weather band radios, all still functioning in North America. By 2001 or so, anti skip buffers got to 45 sec or more. Many players could play mp3 on data cds by then Nice to have these as vehicles do not have CD player options as of ~2018 and later model years in North America The model in this vid appears to be a uk model, no name brand like gpx or similar in North America Fine for tinkering and gaining experience, but the name brands listed are my go to models for quality Yes, we all know you can rip a cd to flac. wav or mp3, or listen to streams from your phone over bt, but some of us just want to grab an album on cd and pop in a player and play immediately, full lossless sound, no compression, no pulling out your laptop and firing up ripping apps and waiting, assuming your notebook even has an optical drive anymore...etc

10 Second ASP, basically a 10 second buffer.

This video is so good

I wish I have a discman player like that... :(

Oh....oh boy....you flipped that thing over and I saw the 'normal' and 'charge' switch on the underside and got horrible flashbacks to the Craig CD player I bought at a Toys R Us. It had that same switch on it where if you plugged in a power supply and switched it to 'Charge' the CD player would play music while charging the rechargeable AA batteries I put in it. Unfortunately CRAIG electronics are absolute garbage and when I did that it never worked off of batteries again.

I actually don’t have a portable CD player, but there’s a CD player in the radio in my kitchen, and I also have a cassette player. I don’t know why I felt like saying that, but anyway I remember my sister said she put a CD in a time capsule thing once(it was a school project) and everyone was like, “haha like CD’s will ever die” and then less then a year later MP3 players became popular.

Everybody gangsta til Elliot pulls out the 𝐀 𝐋 𝐁 𝐀

That cd spindle looks the same as my small ps1

Lovely fix. I'm curious, there's a switch on the bottom, Charge/Normal. Does this player have some sort of circuitry for charging, NiCd, I'd assume?

Why not just replace the little dome switch? Anyway, it copies the audio to ram and if it skips it keeps playing , sort of like a buffer, very handy , my kenwood cd player didnt had this , i was so happy when tiny built in battery mp3 players came aroud. :)

You should put quotations to the portable of that thing (i mean the title)

Hi buddy, really enjoy your videos! I have a question to ask. How can I lubricate the laser head guide of my CD player? Do you recommend doing this? My CD player is quite noisy every time it goes to the next track, and I'm hoping to get your advice.

It spins faster to fill up a 2 mb buffer chip for the asp. It just speeds up to shove more data I to the buffer

Interesting how corrosion seems to wick through short wires like that. I wonder if it affected the conductivity of the wire?

lol you forgot "GRANDAD" lol

Nice 👍👍

its the same link to uk, both screwdriver

Ohh a Goodmans , mine vibrated slightly to the beat how that was possible I’m not sure and a tear down revealed nothing suspicious.

Looking for something comparable. Would you mind providing the make/model overall? Or even a direct link to this? General searches for CD Players are completely covered and silver/black. Would prefer the clear/yellow like you do!

Honestly, as pretty as it looks... it's HUGE. Missed opportunity to have a satchel strap on it, that would look classy.

Do an iPod restoration.

Quick life hack to remove corrosion from battery terminals Vinegar+Water to remove corrosion

The ol' SD Format. Ugh. I had to pay for some software to recover footage last week after accidentally shutting off my camera.

I wish I still had my old discman it was from the brand elite or something like that bought it new for like 7€ didn't last long though

I swear these things unless they are on a table or something always skipped

james bay? i had you pegged for a metal/alternative guy. i don't know how to feel about this...

Sir you need a thicker gauge wire

i have one that my dad passed on but it does not work, like the thing doesnt even spin, so trying to fix it up :)

Hello, really like your video. Do u know how to fix a cd touch latch. İ got a easy karaoke machine which wasnt used for many years, today i thought i clean it and see if works. So it works perfectly, but then i opened the cd lid and it wont close again. could you give me a tip how to fix it. Nothing is broken btw

while you're at it, you should have done the same thing to the other buttons.

I wouldn't use bare wire 😕

I have a similar problem with my 2005 500mb mp3 player.

wait, yall call em hoovers?