SilverWook said:

As a fellow 704 owner, a bit of advice. Do not use the auto reverse if you can possibly help it. (You can disable it by programming auto repeat of side A.) The unit is like a Rube Goldberg invention on the inside, and the turn mechanism relies on a cheap little spring to get the laser pickup aligned when it turns upward to read side B. My player self destructed because of that cheap little spring wearing out!

You will also have to contend with slippage of the disc clamping mechanism as the rubber degrades over time, (the player might not be able to slow the disc spinning down when "stop" is pressed) but it's not as traumatic as hearing the awful sound of the laser pickup flying off it's little rails.

Did you solve your demodulator problem?

Thanks for all that great info on that player SilverWook. I'll be sure to be careful with it. The picture is so much better on this unit then on the CLD-D504.

Yes, I did get the RF Demodulator to work with my Denon Home Theater System. I've seen some info on the web that says that the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum has a problem with the AC-3 RF signal from laserdiscs, but there is a home made work around driver out there that will allow me to do this project with that sound card. It's just going to take some modifications to the drivers. I'll start doing that on Wednesday.