THAT'S the one! And I DID search..... Thanks so much! Marc

I have recently aquired a very clean pair of Penta II speakers which I rebuilt with 8 new midrange drivers from B&O. They are mated to my beloved (and restored) Beocenter 9500. The Pentas have a turn on "Pop" when the system is powered on. It's not bad, but I swear I read someplace that there was a fix for this. Does anyone recall

Hi, Derek forwarded an email to me regarding this. It has been my own experience that the lasers very rarely actually fail in these players. It absolutely takes a good component level tech to sort this out. I restore B&O gear as my own personal hobby, and have bought MANY "shop units" that had tags on them as un-repairable. All of them

[quote user="vanpitt"]After many years of faithful service, my Beomaster 4500 receiver/amplifier won't turn on! The attached Beogram CD 4500 and TX still work fine. Haven't a clue what happened, but I assume it needs to be replaced. Or might there be a potentially easy fix I can try? Also, can one replace it with a different model

You would ideally need an oscilloscope. Adjust the focus offset on a burned disc for clearest eye pattern. Then go back and adjust laser current to spec. You did (stupid question) clean the lens with 99% alcohol? Not quite by the book, but I find that I can get finer alignments by using the scope to see what the laser sees. Of course, the laser may

Even today, playing back CDR's can be a hit and miss proposition on any CD player. It depends on the media type and how FAST it was burned. You should see the poor eye pattern I have seen on the scope when playing lousy media. What always works for me with all my philips based players is to use good media and burn at 4X or slower. You might want

I still have my 2400-2 with a MINT remote. It is still one of my all time favorite B&O pieces. It has performed so well over the years I have owned it that I'd never sell it. It is actually THE icon that got me hooked on B&O. And you'd be absolutely amazed at how long it runs on a pocket AC inverter and a car battery. I have run it this

Congratulations!! Wasn't really that hard, was it? I'm in the process of re-capping a Studer mixing console. Now THAT'S a job!

Oh..... btw... If you change the main filter caps by the power supply, check the diode bridge. Mine had one bad diode in it causing the humm in the first place. A scope showed it right away. It'll need looking at if you change the caps and it still humms. Marc

I have fixed loads of CD mechanisms. Not sure which one is in the CD-50 Edit: Just downloaded the service manual. Is that a Hitachi laser?? Hard to tell. I am surprised they didn't use a philips drive. Wow... I'd love to see one. In any case, looks like a cleaning and lube is still in order. On a 3 beam pickup though, I'd want to measure