Hi Dave, in that case you are doing the correct thing. I may have another subplatter with the plastic hub intact if you want it - I'll have a look if you want. The recommended tracking force for the MMC4 is 1.2 g but if the cartridge is aged it may need to be set a bit higher than this but anything over 2.0 g could have a detrimental affect on your

Hi Dave & welcome to beoworld. Answer to question 1 is - no the stylus will (should) not be damaged. The black round plastic hub in the centre of the platter is connected to a sfety device and will raise upwards if no record is on the deck and automatically stop the tone arm from proceding to where the edge of the record would be. Q 2. The close

I'm gonna buck the trend here and predict that Martin will arrive unscathed. My reasoning? It's pretty obvious what they are transporting so they have no excuses to fall back on such as "the box wasn't marked fragile", or the usual get out of jail card - "well if you sign for it without checking the contents then you've

Well - here's how it went. Been babysitting the grandkids over the past week, but in the meantime I ordered the parts (didn't realise my next door neighbours wife worked for Farnells so they cost me a grand total of £3.00 - happy days ). Got back home toady at @ 10am and the beomaster was up and running perfectly by 11am, I even replaced

It could be the CD catching on the loading tray. Try gently pushing the front edge of the tray downwards immediately after loading the CD and see if it continues to play. Chris.

For simplicity you'd be best suited with a Beogram with an inbuilt RIAA (not present in the BS9000) so my advice would be a 3500/4500/6500 or 7000, the latter 3 will match better than the grey 3500. As stated earlier you won't have remote control but to be honest it doesn't really matter when you have to manually place on a record, besides

In standby press 0 followed by store twice. Chris.

Just got back home from babysitting my 2 nieces along with 2 grandkids over the last 2 days. Ages 1, 2, 4 & 6 - aaaarggghhhh I need a lie down and a massive beer injection. Chris.

[quote user="francoisvl"] If I opened this radio, I would close it immediately!! [/quote] Me too! But boy oh boy wouldn't I just love to own one Really looking forward to this thread Martin. Chris.

Thanks Dave, I've found what I need at Farnells but may have a look at RS and see if they have owt. Chris.