Paris: I have liked reading the forum of this website and decided to be brave and register. I say brave because I'm a girl. Are there any other female members on the forum? Or any other uni students? Well, I've been an uni student at www.tkk.fi for 21 years now And welcome from me too, Paris. We certainly don't have many female members,

Good to hear, Graham. The servo PCB doesn't quite match the ones described in the service manual so I guess I'm still happy Anyway, I already bought a CDM 4/19 on ebay so I can transplant the laser arm if need be. This centre is just so good looking that I want it to work, too...

OK, got my caps from Segor today. I went on to replace C2103, and the supposed-to-be-bipolar other cap too (with 1,5u MKS). Still don't work. However, I overlooked something last time. There's nothing connected to P36, I can't find the motor control board anywhere, and the spindle motor leads are soldered directly on the servo PCB. The BC9000

Congratulations on your new Beomaster, and welcome to Beoworld! Any decently equipped store that sells electronic components should have the connectors. Ask/search for "2-pin DIN plugs". The flat connector is negative, but the polarity doesn't actually matter as long as you connect both speakers the same way. And don't make a short

Peter : Do you use Dolby C? The major disadvantage of the deck is not that, but the inability to set the recording level oneself. Although the B&O automatic record level was not as bad as some, it was still not great! The 9500 does at least have an over ride even if the VU metering is pretty basic. Yes, I do - or actually used from 1983 on, when

Piaf: I just reread the NYC shop repair order and noticed that they did not replace the capacitors, merely re-soldered them. Might bad caps cause a fuse to blow? Somehow I don’t see this as a cause, but thought I’d ask. I've never been inside a 4000, but I suppose it has a bunch of those red tantalum caps, like most '70s B&O

I believe the DECT system uses different frequencies in US than in Europe, so using your Beocom 2 might be illegal (or just against the regulations) in Europe. You may choose not to care about that, but it's possible that the phone might interfere with some other nearby wireless system, or be interfered so much that it won't work... I believe

I do use cassette tapes from time to time - not that I have recorded anything in 15 years or so, but I have my old tape collection and I got back to it after getting a Beosystem 6500. That deck is simply amazing! And of course, to get back to the subject I just got me a BC8000, which apparently has the same cassette section and sounded equally good

"Work"? Today, I have so far caught up with the forum, gone through a couple of online auction sites, and now I think it's time for lunch

The cap is there to keep the control DC voltage out of the equation. If you had a fixed divider, the circuit would only work at one of the possible control voltage levels (either no control, 16:9 or 4:3). Well I simulated it too, so it should work Maybe the actual data levels differ from those in the service manual, or depend on the load you have on