Hi. I have a Denon UD-M5 that won't turn on; when I press the power
button ... nothing. No lights, no hum, no nothing (It's plugged in and
I checked all the fuses.) My problem is that I bought a new CD player
(a Yamaha DVD-e600) and the Denon had my 2 favorite CDs in it when it
died. Is there any way for me to get those CDs out?

I bought the new player rather than trying to fix the Denon because the
power problem was just the latest of several problems. 1) The volume
knob turned into a random number generator - if you turned the knob the
numbers might jump up or down or who knows. The remote control was the
only reliable way to control the volume. and 2) It was very sensitive.
If somebody walked by CDs would skip, somebody sat down CDs would
skip,... etc. The Yamaha has no such problems. 3) It would skip on its
own (nobody moving in the room). If I ran a Maxell cleaner CD through
it the skipping would usually stop until I put in the next CD - at
which point I had to run the cleaning CD again.

Also the tape player had problems. The logic it uses to fast forward to
the blank space between songs would go nuts and wouldn't allow tapes to
play or be rewound.

At any rate - it was a very over-priced mistake. I would love to get my
CDs out if anybody can help me.

TIA,

Lou