I own a Beocenter 2300, bought somewhere mid nineties. It would seem it's getting a bit older, as I have a few small problems:

- the right light next to the cd is broken. Can I repair this myself, or should I take it to the shop?

- Every now and then, the sliding doors malfunction. When I wave my hand in front of the beocenter, the doors open, but the motors seem to keep on "pushing" the doors outward, even when they reach their open position. You can clearly hear the mechanism continue to run, until the system closes the doors again (after a minute or so, so the closing aspect is fully functional). This isn't a major issue, but I'm wondering if this isn't bad for the mechanism? Any advice?

- When pushing the CD button on the remote (beolink 1000), CD playback works properly. However, if you push the CD button on the beocenter itself, the display switches to CD mode, but it shows the <> sign, indicating their would be no CD in the system.

Having never had one of these units I have no idea but perhaps this will bump it for you

My Ouverture has the sliding doors issue as well but not as severe. The motor continues to run for about two seconds after doors have fully opened. It also has tape issues - when inserting a new, rewound tape, it would play for a second then auto-reverse, as if it thought it had already played that side. I have to manually wind or fast-forward the tape to after the initial "hiss-free" section before it plays properly.

Very rarely it displays CD playback gremlins too, like yours. You're right these things are getting older!

Leo

The sliding door issue is a bad belt, just replace it. It's easy to do, just remove the glass, the side covers and then the rear cover.

<> is a error message of the cd drive, it does not recognize a inserted disc. Usually the the drive itself is ok, but the 4 caps on the board of the drive are gone... replace them if it is a CDM12 drive. The front cover is easy to dissassemble, just 8 bolts.

When the front cover is removed, the light can be replaced. It's an official spare part including the reflector.