Good luck everyone. 40 minutes to go! PS Botty, that's a pretty creepy photograph.

Words of encouragement I cannot offer you. Sorry. What I can tell you is that the symptom you describe is what happened with my BG4002 a few months ago. See this thread. The ultimate cure was a new motor professionally installed. Good luck!

[quote user="burantek"] Ugh... [/quote] But when she works, she's wonderful! And the BM4000 and CDX are amazing pieces. No buyer's remorse at all for anything.

[quote user="chartz"] Are you sure your house is not built on an old Indian cemetery? [/quote] A Seminole curse? Interesting theory. Will have to look into it.

Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Wisconsin and Iowa on business and stopped at the used record store in La Crosse. Picked up a larger than usual haul, so that was cool. Last night I was home and cleaned and played a few of the new additions to the collection. Started with a 45 and that played just fine. Then I put an LP on. Pressed start. The platter

I'd pay that much for M70 trumpet stands. A complete, working (except for no cartridge on the turntable), cosmetically nice 6500 system with MCP plus 2 other remotes was listed on Orlando's CraigsList for $450 this past week. Um, correct me if I'm wrong but that was a steal.

Wanna borrow an NAD 7140 I have sitting in a box in the garage to tide you over?

[quote user="Stan"] [quote user="Paul Winn"] I am sick to death of people moaning about "Audiophiles lost out to audio files". I bet these are the same people who shunned CD when it was first launched as they listened to their crackly, unlife like records. [/quote] I guess I read this differently. [/quote] I just thought

[quote user="mediabobny"] "Audiophiles lost out to audio files". Brilliant comment. [/quote] That was exactly what I was going to say!

Welcome to the BM4000 club! Good luck and congratulations. I'm sure you'll check for it, but make sure you have equal output in both channels. That was my first indication mine was failing. Or are you going to recap it regardless? And be sure and look for that envelope inside with the schematic!