Actually it will but you have to leave the CD in the machine for almost a day, it will then play that CD perfectly. Turning it off and leaving it when you next press play it works perfectly again, all the functions work. However if you open the drawer to put another CD in it will attempt to play, showing the number off tracks sometimes but will then

Found it... that white plactic sliding peice was on 180 degress wrong... I suspect the orginal fault was indeed excess friction (as the pistin is responsible for initialting the arm lowering), but my early investigations lead to that peice being put back in wrong, this possibly lead to the power supply failure (overloading when the gears were crashing

I should have posted pics.. much easier to see whats going on or not!!! these are of the deck in 'play' mode shoing the elver I mean. is it really supposed to be in this position? it stays there while the arm is moving back slowly, and I suspect is teh cause of this.

Ok I have power again, ok not the way B&O intended, but its 12V and pretty clean. (Old AT PC suply 12V rail it will do while I aquire what I need on the orginal one, probbaly if anything cleaner) But its back to its tricks. I am pretty certain smothing has jumped its tracks though. When in 'Play' mode the piston lever toward the back of

Hi, I just wanted to check that what I found was not unexpected.. but I have found a potentially bigger issue. I have the service manual, and have found no voltage at P3 (I belive it should be the 12v DC power input to the main board) I do have 19v AC at the fuse. This I think has to be resolved before any more investigations.. I suspect my original

Hi, I have had a read, and have got as far as getting the piston out... however it is loose with no noticable friction on it and no signs of deformation yet, is this normal for this fault? Stewart

Oh dear.. its now copying monty pythons parott.. its dead, nothing works and no sign of life..

Well I think so anyway... It seems to need resetting after every record is played. It will play nromally, all the functions working as normal. When it gets the end, it returns but not all the way so it seems, you have to move larger of the white sliding peices to engage the gear in the cnetres, where upon it puts the arm back, and makes some unpleasent

I have 2 pairs of MFBs one pair are 532s (the originals) and the other pair are 544s (updated 532 as far as I can tell) if you have the service manuals that would be great as one of the 544s has a fault (will not turn on suspect relay) Stewart

I think this will be it, as I have cheated and used a wire from the earth point to the outer case of both Phono plugs and this has cleared the fault, which would indicate to me that the outer part of the pre-outs are floating. Stewart