Bill, I agree with you, that's why most of my stereo equipment in the home is vintage.
Stuart, haven't paid much attention to MP3, most of my allotted technology time is spent learning Linux.
The moving parts of the CD player, I think were the culprits on a couple of the CDs that went bad. According to the company that worked these Jensens over. They have added isolators on the PCBs. Hopefully they have also worked on the player. If nothing else if the radios continue to work, I can plug an MP3 player into the input. 8)
Larry