John, You are most welcome. By all means send your CD-50 to Martin for repair. These CD players apparently have “issues,” at least the CDX does…. like mine. I got of lucky this time as all mine needed was the lens cleaned. Thank you for the kind wishes in regard to my Beogram 4000. I very much look forward to its return. Jeff

Yes, I certainly agree, a trip to Denmark would have been delightful. I haven’t been to Denmark in many years…. so long in fact that the Beogram 4000 in question might well have been still in production. OK, maybe that is a stretch, but it wasn’t long out of production. I am very much looking forward to martin’s full report

Hi John, I checked will virtually all the carriers and was horrified at their responses. The Beogram 4000 with packing material is quite heavy and I HAD to have the 4000 double-boxed. As such FedExpress was insanely expensive $500-$600 each way. DHL was no better. UPS was less, but still pretty scary. I eventually settled on Canada Post, not my favorite

I just read of another CDX player with similar problems to mine, but this time I got “lucky” and the suggestion to clean the lens did the trick. I carefully cleaned the lens and like magic, the CDX played CD after CD with no problem. It has been several weeks, so I believe this was the whole problem, if it can be called a problem at all

Thanks Martin, as always for the information. I don’t know if what I did was a good idea or a waste of time that just happened to work, however in complete frustration I decided to take off the entire back panel and then attempt to assemble the dustcover lid. With the back panel off, getting everything together was a lot easier. I had literally

I decided to restore the dustcover of my Beogram 1602 and believing that this straight forward turntable should not be too difficult in removal of the dustcover, I proceeded. Wrong , with the screws loosened, the clips FLEW off and now I am having a terrible time trying to get the dustcover back in place. The dustcover now looks most presentable, but

Hi Nigel, With the right equipment I imagine someone could set up such a restoration business. I remember watching in amazement woodworkers at the Rolls-Royce factory at Crewe polishing veneers with a polishing wheel that must have be a meter in diameter. Obviously a polishing wheel that size would be too large for a Beogram dustcover, but something

Hi Mika, What I meant by support was the Plexiglas top is very well supported by the two side vertical Plexiglas pieces and the front vertical Plexiglas piece. There is no problem putting pressure on the forward part of the dustcover. However, the back where is says “Bang & Olufsen made in Denmark” there is NO support in the middle and

The single most important factor is dustcover restoration is patience ….. a whole lot of patience . I have been using the Micro-Surface kit with excellent results on my Beogram 4000, 4002, and 8000. Then I ran into trouble while working on my Beogram 4004. I had wet-sanded for an entire day with the coarsest of the sandpaper provided by the kit

There’s a scary thought. I am bad enough with pets.