Just a quick thought. Check that the lift "lever" is clearing the arm-tube when in the lowered position. if it doesn't, the arm won't lower enough to track the record correctly. The lift height is easily adjusted with care. The most obvious thing on a twenty-five year old Beogram is seized up auto parts, due to lubricants drying out

I've mentioned this before and it won't hurt to mention it again to a fellow audio-fool :)... Unlike we manic music lovers who play our systems almost daily, many of the "Beo-customers" I had were more normal people with "lives" and didn't give their beo-systems much use apart from the radio perhaps. The Beograms often

One thing you have to bare in mind is that the audio cable coming out of these old Beograms was double screened. The inner screens carrying the signal return from the cartridge as usual, and the outer screen carrying the earthing for the deck as a whole, the "earth return" being made when plugging into the Beomaster/Beolab. Some of these Beograms

I can't comment on the Soundsmith cartridges, but I can say that by "sound quality" standards, the turntable you have was ok, but inclined to sound a bit too "safe." B&O cartridges are notoriously temperature sensitive and if the room is below 20 degrees C or so, the sound will get duller and thicker than ever. I liked the

In the UK, many of these decks were only used on "high days and holidays" and actually had very little use as a result. The downside was that the greases and other lubricants gummed up and the decks stopped working, many being scrapped unfortunately. Good luck with trying to find a good one. I'd say that the beogram 3000 was potentially

Good luck, I think they're worth the effort, despite their vintage.

Not sure if I can post pictures, but I bought an SP6 and an SP12 with non-working styli and the cartridge bodies are different. I don't know whether this prevents an SP14/10 or 12 working with the earlier body. There's a small lip running round the back of the SP6-7 body which may prevent an SP10 stylus properly locating with the magnets. Below

I wonder if B&O themselves could consider it, as the best of these items are now collector's pieces. Trouble is, I suspect the tooling was disposed of decades ago and it would cost far too much to re-make these, bearing in mind the few hundred of each that would be made (look at the Sounsmith cartridges. At least as good as the originals, but

I've been lucky enough to come by a Beomaster 3000-2 for not much money (well under £30 including P&P) but there are parts of some of the sliders missing. The volume and tuning slider are fully intact and I have the lower trim and perspex "indicator" for one of the other sliders. The other two lower aluminium trims are missing

My problem with these prices is that low volume audio manufacture has increased in price when mass market audio (often made in China) has plummeted in price, hence the perfectly adequate DVD players you can buy in Tesco's for well under twenty quid..... I suspect a new MMC1/20CL if made now by B&O would be a good few hundred pounds (the Shure