[quote user="Evan"] You can see up at the top of the photo I have a glass of lemonade. It was helping me through some extremely hot weather - Rich & Soren! [/quote] Very nice work. Very inspirational project. I've been thinking of a speaker build myself - ambio speakers to complement my M70s in my BM4000 (the tower) system. I built

[quote user="Evan"] [quote user="Søren Mexico"] I would like know what you will do under your next intulectual absence, this is just beautiful Evan, congratulations, you are a Beoworlder of the first degree. [/quote] Thank you Soren! I haven't thought of my next project yet... [/quote] Turntable!

On a positive note, my initial impression that the MMC20EN that came with the first BG3404 was shot was wrong. I tried the MMC20EN with the second deck after the Soundsmith didn't work, and it sounded quite nice. Maybe I had the tracking force way out of whack when I did my first listening.

Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." After I settled on the second BG3404 as the better of the two, and verified that its speed was perfect, I hooked up the new Soundsmith SMMC20EN cartridge. And there was no sound coming from the right channel. I put the MMC3000 back in. Both channels worked. Put the Soundsmith back

As noted above, the second deck's dust cover has seen better days. I started the process of swapping dust covers but decided against it. I took the cover off the first deck, and in an attempt at practice I guess, tried to put it back on. Couldn't do it. Glad I didn't take the cover off deck two. Aside from being a bit tired looking, the

The second deck is definitely the better of the two. In fact, the first deck's tonearm may be barely on the good side of usable. Both decks have perfect speed, though. Here's the second deck playing Dark Side with the MMC3000 from JaffBay.

So...a question. Two BG3404s shipped to Florida. One from Minnesota, one from New Jersey. Both trips 1000+ miles....er, 1600+ km. Neither deck shipped with transport screws engaged! The question: am I just lucky, or is the BG3404 that robust of a machine?

Looks to work just fine! The dust cover has seen better days, though. Over the weekend I'll check the speeds of the two decks and use the one which seems the best. Hopefully it will be this second one so I don't have to mess with the bent tonearm of the other one (yet, that is). Then I'll just switch dust covers. Can't wait to get that

At least there was some packing material inside the dust cover. No apparent damage to the tonearn. Checked the ring on the underside of the platter, too, and it was fine. I put a cartridge in the tonearm and checked it out....

Egad! Just a single layer of bubble pack around the deck, and the platter is installed!