Tandberg: open-reel recorders and cassette decks + speakers like Fasett Akai: open-reel recorder, fe. GX-77 Sony: Elcaset decks, fe. EL-7 Teleste/Auditek: language labs and PA-systems from 1970's (yeah, I do have one of both )

beocool: I got one of those a month ago, too. Very nice cd-rack! Some info here .

[quote user="Eugene"] and the album cover art on 2001 was worth a buck I suppose. [/quote] I have that, too. The opening theme is a nice demonstration piece for any music system!

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I got an almost free MCP5500 (aluminium with ugly spots of some kind of glue and broken hinges but otherwise great condition) some weeks ago, with original box. I have opened it and tried to clean (first with contact cleaner, later with fine sand-paper) the microswitch but it's still working randomly. Sometimes it works flawlessly and sometimes

[quote user="andy"] so i put it upside down and between the speaker and tv [/quote] Now you'll learn to put the discs in upside down; the right way if you ever buy a CD50!

Looks nice. The charger definitively is a Beocom charger. Only a few years ago I used a Beocom 9600 for some weeks (I had a modern phone but wanted to play with the 9600 for a while!). As seen here , the phone has accessory charger and it looks just like the one in the mod on eBay.

[quote user="tournedos"] I vaguely remember somebody posting a pic of a Beolink 7000 with a similar problem, only apparently much worse than this... [/quote] The thread is here . Unfortunately the picture has been on the poster's idisk and isn't there anymore. I think it looked very much like your BC but much worse. I have never seen

A close-up of the display (it says: SELECT)

I bought a non-working BL5000 remote control from eBay some weeks ago and it arrived today. It was described to be non-working (without anything more precise). Very clean and with original user manual it did rise a bit high but still I decided to give it ago and won. In private message the seller said that it might have something wrong with the battery