It's hard to believe that both the Beolab 3's are faulty and the 6000's worked OK. I suspect a cable fault? Why not go back to your original cables and see what happens. You won't damage the 3's and it will eliminate the cables, if nothing else.

I believe that the 4200 is the first of the modern breed of B&O TV and as such is designed to be serviced by a monkey with a complete 4200 in a brief case! The service modules are expensive and limited service info is provided. However, the picture is in a different class to the 4000/4002 as is the sound. While it's working it is an astounding

[quote user="tournedos"] [quote user="joeyboygolf"] OK you two. Remember, nobody likes a "smart-ar*e" so stop smirking. I opened and closed the door when I changed the CD and the bloody thing performs perfectly. This is a good example of how easy it is to go off at a tangent and confuse your self. Anyway, thanks Craig and

Derek I'm afraid I don't have any BG8002 parts as I've never had one. UsuallyI don't throw anything away until I run out of space and even then I usually regret it as I have a desparate need for just what I binned a month ago! I have ordered the parts to repair the other three CDM4's that were saved from the skip!

[quote user="joeyboygolf"] Ok That's two of you telling me the same thing so there might be some truth in what you say. I'll try opening and closing the door. Will do it this evening and report back. [/quote] OK you two. Remember, nobody likes a "smart-ar*e" so stop smirking. I opened and closed the door when I changed the

Hi Derek, Long time no see. I hope you are well. The 8500 is my test bed. It is usually to be found in my sun room connected to a pair of Beolab 5000 and mainly used by my wife for talking book tapes and CD's. Every now and then it gets transfered to my workroom as a test device. During a clear out a couple of weeks ago it seemed that every box

Ok That's two of you telling me the same thing so there might be some truth in what you say. I'll try opening and closing the door. Will do it this evening and report back.

I don't know the exact sequence Craig as I have never seen this problem before. I doubt it has anything to do with the door though but I'm willing to be proved wrong. I certainly don't have a better idea at the moment! I have 4 CD mechanisms to repair at the moment and it would be interesting to know what has happened here so I can avoid

More evidence to help with the diagnosis. The repaired CDM4 does not re-set the number of tracks on the CD unless the Beocenter is unplugged from the mains! ie If you simply change the CD with mains on, it retains the previous track info. For example if you replace a 10 track CD with an 11 track CD it still thinks that there are only 10 tracks on the

Thinking about this overnight (it's my age, y'know), the upper display only showed 10 tracks on an 11 track CD! Will try again today with a more track CD and see what happens then.