Thank you all for the recommendation! Chris

I have been delighted with the interest my 23-month-old twins have taken towards playing vinyl in the last few weeks. I come home to the likes of the Residents, Robert Fripp, Repo Man soundtrack, Fugazi, Sade, Talking Heads, Les Paul & Mary Ford playing on my (our) Beogram 1800. "Dada play record!" being shouted as soon as I walk in the

I actually used to have that same Milli Vanilli record. It got filtered out of the collection when I came to one of those "storage space" crossroads, way back when. I got the "Checkout" record, which I mentioned above, and it is a great look back at how "high fidelity" enthusiasts got a grasp on how good their setup was

Ha! That's right! Actually, should the right channel be on the listener's right when listening, facing the source, or is it a reference from the location of the source, which would put the "right" channel on the listener's left? I'd like to find a difinitive reference for THAT! I'd finally figure out where to put my speakers

My owner's manual says L for left and R for right, yet my grey and black RCA plugs only say "JAPAN" on them - no L or R. The schematic on page 1-2 of my service manual shows a DIN connector, not RCAs. I never figured out which was left or right and never bought a test record to help figure it out either. So I'll now assume the grey

Ahh, good as new! I am glad to find that the belt did the trick. My 1800 plays like it did when it was new. Knowing the contacts on the open switches are also taken care of for the time being is an added bonus. Again, I wanted to post here, as the original posting topic matched the symptoms I had with my 1800. Even though the posting was for an RX2

Next, I proceeded to clean the open switch in the near-right quadrant... Same process as above. Clean the open side first: Flipping this switch to the opposite position is accomplished by lightly pushing the white lever as shown - again, using very light fingertip pressure. Next rotate the aluminum platter frame until switch flips to other position

Using acetone (the wife's nail polish remover) and a fine-tip paint brush, I began cleaning the switch in the far-left quadrant of the turntable: The switch: Cleaning first open side contacts with acetone and brush: Flipping switch to opposite position accomplished by pushing as shown with very light fingertip pressure, then rotating aluminum platter

Thank you for mentioning the open switches, Dillen. I replaced the belt before I saw your post and the results were positive, but decided to go back in to do your recommended cleaning. Here is how I accomplished that cleaning process... ** PLEASE NOTE - I am posting this here, because I had been experiencing the same issue as explained in the first

Side-by-side comparison of the 24 year old belt (was it REALLY 24 years ago???). OLD belt TOP, NEW belt BOTTOM. I used push pins here to illustrate difference in length, due to the rubber relaxing over the years. Belts are taught enough to be straight, but not stretched: The results from replacing the belt are excellent!