Thanks for the feedback and it would explain why I couldn't see what I thought would be obvious, a blue philips capacitor! Maybe its a job for the professionals because other than giving the laser a very delicate clean which did nothing I'm pretty much out of ideas. The downside of course is the quote I received to have it professionally repaired

Hello from Oz to all fellow B&O enthusiasts around the world. Probably like many on the forum when i first discovered B&O it was a) still trimmed in wood veneer, b) analogue, and c) well outside of what I could afford at the time. Since then I have been trying to make up for lost time and have begun to collect almost anything and everything