[quote user="TripEnglish"] Like most folks, I'm thrilled to own one and wouldn't give it up, but at the same time I wouldn't buy one today. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to pour $5,000+ into a product that plays a dying media. [/quote] From the "I'm Just Sayin' Files": And every month I read in Stereophile

[quote user="Søren Mexico"] [quote user="Rich"]Better?[/quote] Much better, but how is it playing now, after, I suppuse, several trial runs, and did you check the speed again. Congratulations it looks beautiful. [/quote] It plays as beautifully as it looks. I could not be happier with the vintage system. Well, on second thought

[quote user="Evan"] So what are your favorite 3-hour activities everbody?! [/quote] Top 3 1. Playing 4 LPs on my BG4002. 2. Watching a University of Michigan football game in person at the Big House. 3. Attending the first three-quarters of a Roger Waters concert.

I've still got a bit to go to reach 1000. May I recommend that pair of S40s that need a refoam for your missing set of speakers?

[quote user="tournedos"] [quote user="Rich"] Step 1: pour some home brew. This particular home brew I call "Black and Tan Your Hide." It's a blend of a brown ale and an Irish stout with added "booster" to take the alcohol content up over 6%. [/quote] I know the Brits love warm beer, but I'm sure even they

[quote user="yachadm"] You put a smile on my face!!!! But here, the men meet in the living room, and put the wife in the bedroom with the children! [/quote] No comment.

[quote user="yachadm"] I don't get it. What is a "garage system"? Surely you don't mean that you put a BeoSystem in the garage? Menahem [/quote] That is exactly what I meant. In Florida we do not have basements. Thus the garage is our workshop, storeroom, and laundry room more often than a place to keep our vehicles. It is

[quote user="Søren Mexico"] [quote user="Rich"]Now that I have a garage system up again - BM1900 and BV M70 pair 2 - a little cleaning and fine tuning of the BG4002 may be next.[/quote] Its time to think about the children, ipods and an 8 for each, that generation wont go vintage [/quote] My young girls love the vintage.

[quote user="tournedos"] Still can't decide how to arrange my stuff, currently the living room is like this. Sharp eyed folks will notice how the kit spans three decades. [/quote] Very nice, Mika. The only thing missing is an alcoholic beverage. For some reason I'm thinking vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.

[quote user="sufcdan"] thank you for the reply buddy So there is someone on here who can repair the stylus??? thats his main reason for looking to sell tbh, we cant find anywhere to replace the stylus :( If he can get it fixed he'd probably keep it! [/quote] And in the US there are two places to retip, one of which sells new cartridges