A friend gave me a CLD D925 a few months back it had some crosstalk issues. I tried to fiddle with it making it worse it has since been sitting in a corner. Now i've acquired the Pioneer Reference Disc, A service remote is on the way. A friend has an oscilloscope.

The manual refers to a Sony YEDS-7 test CD is it necessary? it seems like its a bit tricky to hunt down. Will any cd work?

Crosstalk is generally tilt I believe, should be able to do it with trial and error and no scope.

If you use a scope there is no trial and error.
If you don't have the test disc and scope then yet its trial and error, but too much and bang your laser is dead Jim.

I am referring to any test disc.
If you have disc and scope there is no trial and error when adjusting anything.

If you do not have disc then you must take your chance and hope you make the correct adjustments for all.

Sometimes you can adjust to make this work but that won't now or anymore so then you are adjusting all the time.

If you ask the experts they will tell you how to adjust tilt and it isn't with a test disc and a scope, it's with a small adjustments and a movie playing.

This is wrong, but if it works for you when you tweek players then good for you

Take this for what its worth.

I had a player that didn't play one disc once, I adjusted the focus to play that disc and then it wouldn't play many other discs that it did in the past.
Luckily I kept note of where it was and put it back so I only had 1 disc that didn't play out of 400.

I guess my mistake was not owning Goldeneye.

Just trying to clarify if a person has a test disc and scope then you get the issues fixed spot on, no guessing.
Just like getting your tires balanced, there is no guessing unless you are doing this in your garage with no test equipment.

And I'm telling you that you can adjust TILT (NOT FOCUS) with a disc not a scope. It's not guessing, you can see the crosstalk on the screen and see when it disappears. You cannot take your bad experience guessing on FOCUS and apply it to TILT they are two completely different adjustments.

I've also told you that I know this not only from personal experience but also from being told by Kurtis Bahr in person. Apparently this is not enough for you though so whatever I guess no point in trying to help anyone here.....

I placed an order for a service remote today. I'll get back when it arrives

And I'm telling you that you can adjust TILT (NOT FOCUS) with a disc not a scope. It's not guessing, you can see the crosstalk on the screen and see when it disappears. You cannot take your bad experience guessing on FOCUS and apply it to TILT they are two completely different adjustments.

I've also told you that I know this not only from personal experience but also from being told by Kurtis Bahr in person. Apparently this is not enough for you though so whatever I guess no point in trying to help anyone here.....

A friend gave me a CLD D925 a few months back it had some crosstalk issues. I tried to fiddle with it making it worse it has since been sitting in a corner. Now i've acquired the Pioneer Reference Disc, A service remote is on the way. A friend has an oscilloscope.

The manual refers to a Sony YEDS-7 test CD is it necessary? it seems like its a bit tricky to hunt down. Will any cd work?

If you've already "fiddled with it" then depending on what you did I'm thinking there's a good chance more than just one thing might need setting back correctly??

If so having a scope and running through the alignment procedure in the service manual might be a good idea just to check everything over? (Well at least the adjustment for any pot you fiddled with anyway.)

I'm not expert on this but as far as I know, where the test CD is called for that a standard audio CD will work for those adjustments in the alignment procedure (proper pressed one not burnt).