Trip, I understand your perspective, and believe me when I say I appreciate the beauty of the aesthetics and the industrial design. This is actually my main interest in B&O. I don't consider any B&O product to be the best performing product in it's field, but it's for the sake of the beauty and design that I'm willing to make

Russ, I appreciate the time you spent typing that, but I wasn't trying to express much of my own opinion. I was just saying what B&O has claimed in previous years if you look at their old catalogs, and that I think it's quite different from Trip's take on the situation. As for my own opinion: I think B&O's target market today

TripEnglish: What I'm saying is: our products are fine; redesign the way you use electronics. Trip you make some good points, but at the same time this statement goes completely against the design philosophy B&O has been expressing within their catalogs for the past several decades. The company claims to design electronics and their operation

Actually Martin I won't bother with the video since I have this almost worked out. After more adjustments and tweaking, I was able to play a record. However, I still need to fix the 33rpm setdown point. When I first tried it, the needle set down on the vinyl about 2 mm away from the first track. I opened the turn table again and adjusted the little

I made a little video of me turning the gears. I'll upload it later today. Thanks again.

Hi Martin. The motor doesn't turn, but if I turn the motor myself then the sled moves back and forth the full width in each direction. It looks like I made a mistake about moving the manual gear though - the two positions look like the 45rpm set down point on the inner end, and just all the way to the right when moving the other direction - it doesn't

Hey Martin, the tone arm was able to slide back and forth freely. Then when I followed the instructions to manually move the tone arm back and forth (hold that one white section of the gear in, while turning the main platter frame) the sled engaged, and now it moves back and forth only when you manually turn the gears. So if the sled is already at one

Ok, well I got past the original issues, but am now at a bigger one. Engaging the manual tone arm drop/raise returned the arm back to its proper position. Then I tried spinning the manual arm in/out wheels. After some resistance at first, the gears clicked into place, and the sled slid properly back and forth on the rails. Now I'm trying to adjust

I'd probably go with something like 4 strands of 16-gauge wire, wrapped together in a plastic sheath, in the same style as the one you gave. Don't get solid core. Also, you can get a cable with more than 4 strands and just use 4 of them. Do you have a picture of the connectors you'll be using? Because 4 strands of 16-gauge wire may not fit

Hey everyone, For today's puzzle, I present a beogram 4500. I took an ebay gamble on this along with some other 4500 components as part of a package. I carefully told the seller how to pack it. Take platter out, and pack underneath, tighten shipping screws, remove and pack the cartridge separately, tape the tone arm onto a piece of foam. He did