Hello, So I got myself a Beomaster 4400 which was advertised as mint but faulty. Mint? Yes it certainly was but due to careless packing it arrived with both sides of the alu panel damaged and a crack in the cabinet. Good start! This in spite of my alarmed warnings to the seller... Now the faults: a defective preamp 24V supply, two blown BC237B transistors

Hi, A couple of innocent questions: 1) are both arms parallel and at right angles to the deck? 2) how long does the pickup arm take to lower? It seems to me that a bad sensor lamp would just bring the pickup arm close to the sensor arm and skip the same groove over and over again...

Hi, and welcome! So, do the "blobs" then!

Yes, that's what I intend to do, obviously! I'll use it on my Beogram 4000/Beomaster 4400 setup, and let the SMMC20EN on the 8000 system. Regarding Axel, I thought he only cut the MMC1-5 ones. I may be wrong! [quote user="Peter"] [about the Axel re-tipped MMC5000] The pickup itself was well finished and apart from some small traces

Hi, Woofers back from Martin's! He did a great job! These speakers now sound like new again. More weight to the overall balance with the new woofers. Martin says the bass will continue to improve in the next weeks (they need to be run-in all over again). Funnily enough, even the upper registers seem to have improved (which I know is impossible)

Right. On closer inspection, the cartridge seems to have been repaired. The glue at the back doesn't seem original and the edge there is slightly dented. The contacts are shiny, so they may have been cleaned. Could I have bought an Axel re-tipped MMC? for this miserly amount? By the way, I'm waiting for my MMC4 to come back from its trip to

Hi, Today I received a small packet with an MMC20CL cartridge, as a complete red box with all its accessories (yes, even the brush), the nice Brüel & Kjær graph and instructions. It is dated February 1979. Surely one of the first produced. The number at the back of the cartridge matches the other stickers' numbers: 3204. My review

Good! There are lots of 1uF and 2.2uF plus some 4.7uF in there. Has anybody tried 5mm Wimas in the 4400?

More, more! And please welcome me to the club of 4400 owners! Mine has a bad channel too it seems... waiting for the parcel to arrive!

Done, PM sent.