[quote user="vikinger"] B&O is basically Bose but with a Scandinavian name." [/quote] This may be a geographical thing but I wonder where the Bose association comes from. To me, all "Bose" has ever meant was that black telephone booth strapped to the ceiling at a club that makes my ears bleed. (and the car audio system in

Those heat signs are probably just dirt carried in & captured by the air flow inside the amp - I bet they'll wipe off with a moist cloth. The swinging board is the tuner, and the metal case contains the front end. If it works, it's fine. I don't think there'll be anything fundamentally wrong with the receiver as you already verified

[quote user="Puncher"] [quote user="DoubleU"] Just a Cambridge for an Express? Hmm, not sure if I would do that... I would trade the Express for the Squeezebox Touch. It has a very good DAC, a really good review from the critical Stereophile magazine: http://www.stereophile.com/computeraudio//logitech_squeezebox_touch_network_music_player

Gee, that's a banged up 6500. Guess I was lucky when I received my white 6500 - it was rather shoddily packed and the seller had tried to tighten the transport screws... only that he had mixed them up with the platter height adjustments The flywheel/subplatter getting warped seems to be a common problem when these poor decks are thrown about with

This is a classic problem for CD50 so you must've used wrong search words... most probably the loading belt has snapped. This might be the best thread with pictures: http://archivedforum.beoworld.org/forums/t/30607.aspx Dillen should have replacement belts. The job is not very hard, but quite annoying. While you have the deck open you should clean

Perhaps it would be useful to replace the motor with a resistor that is clearly larger than the motor load? Hopefully the transistors would survive, and you could measure if the operation voltages make any sense after that.

[quote user="murcieme"] I hate mucking up the signal path with extraneous bits & pieces, however, and was wondering if anyone has had any experience in REPLACING the DIN lead itself, from the main board on the TT, with an RCA connector / cable? Should I even bother asking my local B&O retailer about this, or would the inherent technology

No problem Jacques... but I think I'll shut up for a while now and ponder this over, it is indeed odd! The idea I was after with the diodes was that if they simply conducted in one direction but not in the other, their threshold voltage might still be off and prevent the circuit from working correctly... Have a break yourself as well, one often

Sorry if these are too obvious, but... How did you determine that the diodes are fine? And just to make sure, did you test the motor by actually running it with a power supply instead of just turning it with your fingers?

The low power transistor? Sounds like it's getting excessive drive current. Check the diodes around it, perhaps the base is now stuck high...