Ah - I was going to offer to come round and lend you a cartridge to double check the problem if you lived within travelling distance but Sydney is just a tad out of my way The SMMC4 is far superior to the orignal B&O equivalent MMC4 sound wise, not as refined though in the manufacturing but well worth the money. I also have a B&O MMC3 (which

Now me being a Yorkshireman would look for some nice Beovox S55 speakers with foam rot for a tenner and repair them. One of my favourite B&O vintage speakers and if you can get the rosewood ones they look simply spectacular. Try and get the them with the original stands which are totally retro - cool and enhance the sound beautifully. If you don't

Craig: Have to agree with all the previous posts, I have now purchased several items from Lee. Superb service every time. Craig Ah but does he send free screws though Craig? (in joke) Chris.

ben12345: I have a good MMC20S cartridge that you can have for the cost of a couple of drinks if you're interested. I believe that this was the cartridge originally supplied with the Beogram 1500. Cheers, Ben. Now that's an offer you can't refuse.

I had a Kenwood system with a tangental deck some years back which was supposed to track the smooth sections of the vinyl to skip tracks but it never really worked properly as it saw parts of tracks where the recording levels were quite subtle. It was quite a nice system actually (top of the range at the time) until I lent it to my teenage nephew for

Definately Martins baby this one. I remember him working on this from the first incarnation of Beoworld going back years. He has put an enormous amount of energy into this one where many would have given up at the umpteenth hurdle. Chris.

It is 99% likely to be the cartridge. I had one in this exact condition with the exact same symptoms. A lovely Soundsmith SMMC4 replacement cured it. Where are you located? Chris.

I'd keep it but then again I'm also biased towards the retro stuff If you are a vinyl fan then it is worth more in terms of listening pleasure than the likely resale price IMO. I agree with previous comments re:- soundsmith cartridges. Chris.

Press stop then use the << >> button to track to where you want then press play. To be honest the track skip function on these decks isn't very good. You may as well use the buttons on the deck as you'd need to be close to the record to see the set down point in any case. Chris.

The silver ones certainly used BMW colours, not sure about other colours though. Chris.