The only drivers that will work are the originals. Your dealer will be able to get order them for you. If not, go to a different dealer. Some B&O dealers won't sell parts. I can't buy anything from my local dealer either, they won't even answer my mails. Martin

Hi and welcome to Beoworld ! There are two types of Beomaster 1600. The value of your Beomaster depends greatly on which type you have and even more on the condition. - Is it working ? - Was it recently serviced ? - Optical flaws, scratches, dents, parts missing ? - Is the original box and/or manuals included ? And still with all these questions answered

They will all get foam rot, sooner or later. It's safe to say that all CX50's and CX100's that haven't already had drivers repaired or replaced will have foam rot now. Martin

With a radio like this, it matters a lot what you play. Britney Spears and Michael Jackson won't sound right. Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodmans 1938 Carnegie Hall live Concert would ! Hopefully, I will be able to listen to Gold on 1548 KHz sometime, I'm sure that would be the thing to play sunday mornings while the coffee is brewed

Marc wrote "...Impatient to know the continuation of the story..." So am I Power up again - wait for the valves to warm up. Changing wavebands now produces a clear crackling and touching the CBL 1 grid cap rewarded me with a somewhat louder buzz. Time to clean the wavechange switch though we will probably never be able to remove all switching

With the high voltage about right but only faint sounds, it was decided time to replace the output stage valve. A wonderful NOS (New Old Stock) Philips Miniwatt CBL 1 valve was unpacked and fitted. Martin

Thanks for your concern guys, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it ! Current meter reads 200mA = spot on. AC voltmeter across the output valve heater reads 42 Volts = a bit lower than the 44V given in the service manual but definitely acceptable and with a margin to the correct side with regards to eventual overrunning of the heaters. Power off

With the new potentiometer mounted, there's only a few more things to check before applying power to the set; One thing is resistors. It could easily be a chapter of its own but I won't go into much detail here about how and why, but merely conclude that in some positions the old coal resistors tend to go high in ohmic value. Particularly if

Regarding the keypad, I suppose you could also use a piece from the old Beocord 5000 for practice. That may be easier (and cheaper) to source. Martin

Hi and welcome to Beoworld ! What you have is definitely one of the nicer of the older models. I understand that you would like to keep it going and I am almost sure that someone with quite a bit more knowledge regarding TV's than I, will be with you shortly. Die_Bogener, as Friedmett suggests but Tim and Nick also springs to mind. Martin