I have a marantz cd 67 se cd player.it doesn't always play cd's.it appears that it fails to recognise there is a cd in the cd drawer. also when it does actually play it often stops playing part way through the cd.

Yes if they are finalized.

You will have to remove the outside cover to expose internal parts, then you may be able to "help" the drawer open unless something is jamming it or broken.

Replace with a Philips VAM1202 Laser pick-up.
This is a revised version of the CDM12.1 and has a very good reliability
record.
If you replace with another CDM12.1, there's no telling when this
will also pack up as these have a very high failure rate.

check the back of your marantz player, some old marantz products have a buttom at the back saying system or intermal, if it is on the system side, the remote will never works.

We have the same problem with our CD duplicator at our church. When the duplicator finishes it always shows 'fail' but the copied CD-R appear to have copied correctly and play on other players.

i had the same problem on a marantz cd-63 which is virtually identical
and it turned out to be a faulty button on the control PCB.
i replaced it with one out of a scrap PCB and all worked as it should.

hope this helps.

A few possible causes:

- dirty or oxydized power switch contacts
- dirty laser pickup lens
- faulty laser emitter
- faulty laser pickup sensor
- dirty or oxydized contacts on any connectors, including flat foil cables
- oxydized brushes and commutator on spindle and/or slide motor
- dirty or oxydized contacts on the door switches
- faulty power supply (filter capacitors, voltage regulators)
- faulty motor driver IC

Could ba any of the above causes or a combination thereof.

Hope you can locate the actual fault.

Regards,

Triarcuate

these models use the 12.1 philips laser mechanism and it is a very common problem for failing to read discs.
various technics / marantz / philips / cyrus cd players etc also use it and are plagued with the same fault.
it's a 90% chance the laser is dead!
philips realised the unreliability of this laser and uprated it to the identical looking VAM-12.
do not dismiss the spindle motor as these also fail quite alot on this mechanism.

hope this helps.

The optics are most likely defective. Yes you will need to replace the optics assembly. I don't have a location for parts outside of the US, but you should be able to locate a parts distributor for Marantz in Europe.
Dan

you might be able to get it fixed future shop can take alook at it and tell you if it can be fixed