I'm surprised nobody has yet compared the Beosound 8 to the products by GenevaLab. As I have never seen nor heard either, I'm fully qualified to do that now. Going to http://www.genevalab.com/ , I can note the following points: I think I've seen the "display visible through a perforated front grille" idea before somewhere I think

Agreed on all of the above - even the best alkaline batteries can leak, although nowhere near as destructively or quickly as cheap regular batteries (can you still get them somewhere?). I have converted to Energizer Lithium in all my remotes that use AA and AAA size cells. Dunno how long they last, as I have yet to replace a single one... I wouldn't

Any regular 10 ohm resistors will do, metal film 0.3W for example. Don't up the power rating much though, or they won't act as fuses as they were designed to anymore. There's plenty of discussion on that C2103 on the forum, most recently here . The easiest way out is to get a ready assembled kit of all caps worth replacing on this board

[quote user="Stonk"] [quote user="Doctor"] The people who really impress me are those non English speakers who post word perfect threads. [/quote] Mika's written english is astonishing and I'm still sure Electrified is an expat! [/quote] I still annoy myself enough with unsure preposition usage and such that I've thought

That's a detailed enough picture Near the two wires to the spindle motor, you see the two driver transistors (6124 and 6125). Above and below them are the two 10 ohm safety resistors. They obviously have been hot, the lower one seems to have even bubbled a bit, perhaps enough to create smoke. Measure them, and you should also test the two transistors

Agreed - take a look at the other thread I linked to. If for example one of the transistors has shorted, it'll spin the motor, burn the resistor and the servo circuit can't control the motor speed any longer. But this is all speculation, so it will need to be looked at. As said in the other thread, DON'T touch the adjustments!

Hi there. I had a similar problem in mine - afterwards, I think it's possible that I didn't place the CD properly when loading it and it wasn't able to rotate, overloading the mechanism. In any case you do have some real electronic repair work to be done. The bad part is that a dealer won't be able to help you, most probably they will

A brilliant draw, thanks to all! Around the high point, I counted the people in "who's online" and there were more than 40 members clicking on 'reload'... quite nice I suppose we can now return to the irregularly scheduled programme in the Wednesday Thread©

[quote user="TripEnglish"] Slightly off-topic, but Tomaz' design makes me think of just how difficult the inclusion of an acoustic lens is in an overall design. I personally thought it was the achilles heel of the BeoVision 9. I think it looks best incorporated in the BeoLab 9s, but the best way I've seen to deal with it is mechanical

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