Okay then. I suppose you have these Martin, right?

Oh yes, we had fun (?) making reservoir caps or diodes explode when I was a student! Yellow papery substance everywhere! How stupid we were then... But this kind of experimentation learns a thing or two, doesn't it? And I guess trying that with tantalum would be nice too!! Jacques

Yes, very nice indeed! So you too get up to 1.5 dB difference between channels on some tapes. I wonder whether this is down to head wear or tape wear (or both). I got stabler (more stable?) results with new Sony Fe tapes, the only ones I can get at the local supermarket. New heads are expensive (100$). The only sign of wear I can see is on the centre

Hello, I realized the original belt is good (elastic and firm) but from 30 years of non-use, it has kept the 'memory' of the motor pulley! Is there any way to get it back to perfect roundness? Jacques

Well I wouldn't know really. I have 70s ReVox and B&O gear still running on their original tantalums... I think engineers knew what they were doing. It would be very presumptuous to question their choices, wouldn't it? Some do get noisy though. Anyway I have never seen exploded ones so far. But I'm sure someone more experienced like

Hi, I can confirm what Martin says, electrolytics on the signal path are fine. I changed my BM 6000 caps with identical types (not Chinese ones though!) and the sound is perfect. Blind tests have shown little or no difference in sound quality when you install "better" caps. I tried polyprops in the phono stage but reverted to original caps

Thanks. Can you tell us how you did your adjustments (is the service manual correct?) and what results you go for each type of tapes please? Jacques

Hello, Would anyone share their Beocord 9000 experience please? Jacques

Okay, thanks. I took the plunge and re-adjusted everything, which is not too difficult on this deck in service mode (great stuff). After adjustments, an old metal tape without the metal detection holes now turns to metal (the metal led glows) during calibration! Pure magic!

Thanks. So what the manual says about metals isn't necessarily true then. Could you test old tapes in your Beocord for me please, and post your results? Jacques