I have found this especially fascinating: an Ampex 1963 domestic video recorder . Great website! The Sony AVC-3200TE seen here is about the same model the U-Matic tapes have been shot and which I have! Now as we are in the topic; does anyone around here have one of these ?

A bit of-topic but anyway: I have some videotape recordings at work that date as far as 1978. They are recorded on Sony U-Matic tapes. The tapes are still playable. The recorder (Sony VO-5630, not the original recorder) is still working and needed only one little repair: new belt in the tape threading mechanism. Of course the quality is not very high

It would be great if you can have a look on it. It's really nothing to hurry about, I have it but I can manage with the other three B&O setups for a while Only problem is making space to store everything (and in this case to keep it visible even during storage as it looks nice anyway!). I'll stack the 7000 to my workbench-audio setup for

Thanks for quick replies. [quote user="tournedos"] Try not to kill the CPU with ESD... [/quote] That's what I was afraid of. I have absolutely no experience in ESD protection. Mika: how many caps you'd approx there were? As you have done this repair once, could you think doing it for my BM7000 (if paid enough, of course!). I wouldn't

Hello. My newly bought Beomaster 7000 is working otherwise well, but the remote control range seems to be very short and intermittent. I have to point the remote exactly to the direction of the BM and it won't work anywhere further than 2 meters. I have a BL7000 but the problem is the same with BL1000 and Beo 4. Few times I have had two-way control

This is my new 7000 system including Beomaster 7000, Beogram CD7000 and Beolink 7000. I bought the Beolink from Beoworld Sales forum some weeks ago and since I got it I "had" to buy some two-way system as my BM4500 was one-way only version. My plan was to replace the 4500 system (BM+CD) at work with the 7000 but now as I have tested the 7000s

I noted the end-sensor in the service manual, and that would seem logical as there is voltage (red wire) for the (ir)-led. Could there be an adjustment for the signal gap sensitivity? And the new head having different characteristics?

Beolab1, next thing you need to get yourself a B&O open-reel recorder! (I have two!) Then a B&O wire-recorder... At the moment I have five B&O cassette recorders, BC2000, BC3500, BC5000 (1970's, partly working), BC5500 (partly working) and the decks in Beocenter 1400 and Beocenter 9000 (just got back from listening a tape with it!).

Hello all. Some years ago I aquired a Beocord 5500 which had trouble with the playback head, one channel was dead. Thrue Beoworld I was able to get the mechanics of another BC5500 from where I get the replacement head. The mechs. weren't of the exact same type but I was able to replace the head and get the adjustments so that it sounds good on both

I once had a Beomaster 1000 that had candle wax inside! Someone had had a candle on the top of the BM and the wax had poured in thrue the air vent holes on the top. Nothing was broken and I just removed the stuff from the circuit boards. Crackley channel could be caused by a dirty potentiometer (volume, other adjusts) or the push-buttons. Could be as