Talk to Brett when he calls next Sunday. Against my advice, he has just refoamed a pair of Penta II and will be able to give you all the information! Personally, I have bought replacement drivers in the past and they are still available at around £25-£30 each.

I have a couple of Steve's turntable shelves in stock if he hasn't got any. Same deal as Steve charges. The Ouverture does have datalink but the 3000 and 3200 do not. For record decks with built in RIAA pre amp the datalink is on pin 7 of the din plug. Those decks are wired accordingly and are a simple plug in to suitable devices such as Beocenter

Read here to answer most of your questions! http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/30106.aspx

In stead of waiting for him to maybe read this you would be better off if you "started a conversation" with him here http://forum.beoworld.org/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=2131 In that way, he will get the message in his Inbox on the forum and at the same time he will receive an email.

The RIAA does not exist in the 9500 as a discrete board that can be simply removed. In the 3500 deck I believe the job can be done by cutting one leg only on C4 and one leg on C12. This should disable the op-amp. Now either connect the pins together as described by Peter or move the yellow wire from pin 7 to pin 6 in the plug. You already know the simplest

Don't forget that when you bypass or disable the riaa in the deck, you will need to change the datalink from pin 7 to pin 6 in the plug!

I don't believe that this damage is anything to do with the tangential tracking system. The cause is more likely due to abuse by the user or to transit damage exacerbated by idiot eBay sellers who send these decks through the parcel courier system with inadequate and/or misplaced packaging! If I buy a deck on eBay and have it shipped to me, I now

I require a working processor board from a Beomaster 5500, 6500 or 7000 Can anyone help!

I have had experience of most B&O cd players and post CD50 and CDX I notice no audible difference between any of them up to and including Beosound 9000. Beolab 8000's are daisy chained (looped?) using a powerlink Y adapter as described in the user guide which of course is usually consigned to the bin!

At least we are all singing from the same hymn sheet! http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/31999.aspx