Pioneer DV 563A bungle!

Pioneer DV 563A bungle! The problem persists!!!!!

Guys, I musta played around with my menu services too much! Right now, the player reads the cd layer only with hybrid discs yet it reads SACD on dedicated SACD discs.

What do I change in the menu settings to get it to default back to reading the SACD layer first?

Thank you so much!

 

From Remote or player front with a disc in but stopped:

Home Menu > Initial Settings > Options > SACD Playback > (Multi-Ch or 2ch )

 

Done. It's in 2ch. But it always defaults on a hybrid to the CD layer!

Arrgghh!!

 

The set-up features on this unit are very confusing at times aren't they.

 

Make sure that after you select "2ch" that you press the "Enter" button. If you just go back using the directional keypad it won't save the selection...

 

Yes, that is the key. It took me quite some frustrating times of selecting "large" and "small" speakers to figure this out.

 

Have done so and it still defaults to cd.

Remember, if I put in a single layer SACD, it plays it. It is hybrids that are where it is defaulting.

And the initial settings SACD playback says 2ch. Enter button pressed many times. (in quiet desperation!)

 

Might be time to do a player reset...wipes out all your settings to factory. Probably will fix this "brain fart."

Hold down STOP button on front panel, then press STANDBY/ON. "Let's Get Started" screen will come on, etc etc. Good luck!

 

Did it.

Now defaults to SACD.

Thank you everybody!

 

Spoke too soon everybody.

It seems that I was lucky when I put in a Living Stereo SACD that time. Reloading it gave me a cd reading. Doing this over and over again (opening and closing the cd tray with disc in it) sometimes (rarely) gave me the SACD reading. Mostly it was CD only.

Hmm.....

Tried the AF Deep Purple SACD. No reading of SACD no matter how many times I re-loaded the disc into the player...

Maybe the laser is dirty?

Why would it be so fickle?

Help!

 

Well it doesn't sound like the DVD-A problems. And this is just starting to happen.

Do they recommend cleaning the lens?

 

I would. Does sound kinda ominous at this point....

 

And can anyone recommend how to do this without ruining the lens?

 

Four ways:

1) Open the tray and aim a can of compressed air in there.

2) Remove the case and take better aim.

3) Buy one of those DVD Lens Cleaner discs at your local music/computer/stereo barns.

4) Take it to a repair shop that will do it for you.

 

Thanx. I don't have any air here so I will have to go to a hardware store and buy some...

I hope it does the trick!

 

A small can of compressed air will cost ye around $6-8 at most places (Staples, Office Depot etc). Seems like a lot for nearly nothin', doesn't it?

 

Can of air worked!!! Thank you pdenny! Spins my AF's with ease now! SACD all the way on the hybrids!

 

Huzzah!