CDJ-850 CD reading tolerance

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CDJ-850 CD reading tolerance

Can anyone who’s had an 850 or similar for a good amount of time answer this? I’ve had a preowned 850 for about 6 months and has been working great, especially since have been using mostly USB. I had a performer hand mea performance cd during an event andbecause of the time didnt cue it like I usually do. I skiped pretty bad during the perfomance. I pull out the cd and look at it, little to no scratches but a nice sized thumb smudge fingerprint, MY QUESTION : Should the cdj freeze up on this or play through it? is this normal? Or is my CDJ failing? Maybe I should crarry a cloth around or something… Thanks in advance

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blame the fingerprint.
you can just clean it with the inside of your t-shirt though.

my 100s refused to read couple of badly scratched CD’s, but on battered 1000s they worked fine, i’d imagine 850s to be at least at the same level

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Not all CD’s are created equally… Some types just don’t work well in CDJ’s.

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So did you try another CD to see if you could duplicate the problem?