In my weekend house I have a Beogram cd 3300 connected to Beocenter 7007. The cd player after a week on stand by or completely off will not start at once. I push play and it tries and then here is a "P" sign. If I several times push play, after a while it starts playing. It is especially one cd that starts better then others.

When I have played it for while it have no problems to start playing. When I put it on stand by for the night it will start again without problems the next day.

Does anyone recognize this or have any clues of what could be wrong? 

Not really that helpfull but anyway. The "P" sign is a "?" and it means that the Beogram cannot understand your command.

It might be a dustproblem, but the 3300 is getting old, so it might also be wear and tear.

I had a similar problem with my CDX, and it turned out I wasn't loading the CD correctly and it was slipping off the platter, so when I pressed play and the lid closed the hole in the CD wasn't lined up with the top of the spindle and the CD didn't spin. Oddly enough it was one CD that was more problematic than the rest. Have you checked to see if the CD has spooled up when you loaded it?

j0hnbarker:

I had a similar problem with my CDX, and it turned out I wasn't loading the CD correctly and it was slipping off the platter, so when I pressed play and the lid closed the hole in the CD wasn't lined up with the top of the spindle and the CD didn't spin. Oddly enough it was one CD that was more problematic than the rest. Have you checked to see if the CD has spooled up when you loaded it?

 

I will check that up, since the cd player is in my weekend house, it will be towards the weekend. By the way. I just saw Darlington - Leeds United on livesport.com. We won safely 0-1 without a few first team players. This is the first chance I've got to see them live on TV. They seemd very strong and confident. Marching on together.

anyone know how or where to buy a wall mounting bracket for the 3300 series?

 

sveifors:

j0hnbarker:

I had a similar problem with my CDX, and it turned out I wasn't loading the CD correctly and it was slipping off the platter, so when I pressed play and the lid closed the hole in the CD wasn't lined up with the top of the spindle and the CD didn't spin. Oddly enough it was one CD that was more problematic than the rest. Have you checked to see if the CD has spooled up when you loaded it?

 

I will check that up, since the cd player is in my weekend house, it will be towards the weekend. By the way. I just saw Darlington - Leeds United on livesport.com. We won safely 0-1 without a few first team players. This is the first chance I've got to see them live on TV. They seemd very strong and confident. Marching on together.

Hi Beezer,  I have a BG 3300 and was never able to find one, so I made my own.  I bought one of those "angled" wall brackets for my Beocenter 9500 and mounted my 3300 next to it.  I went to Home Depot and purchased some angle iron and sheet metal and fabricated it myself.  I painted it black and it looks and works great.  It was also easy.  I do not have a work shop with a lot of tools or anything and was still able to do it.  You can't even see the bracket holding up the 3300.  It simply looks as if it is "floating" on the wall.  If you are interested, I could send you some pictures.   Tom

You should send them to Ed who will put them on the gallery! Very practical, clearly!!

Back to the main issue in this post. I am quite sure I am mounting the CD correct. The problem is as follows.

1.

Since the player is in my week end house it is not played between sunday to friday (stand by). When I come and want to start it on fridays I must push play 10-15-20 times and it will go " P". then suddenly after a time it plays. Now when it now is playing it will play the whole evening and it starts the next day without problems. If it is on standby or completly off a few days or more it will need several play again and again before playing.

 2.
It is very choosy on wich CD it will play. I can have to newer original cd's and it will play one and not the other.

 3.

Sometimes when I push open, it will not open up, it just stops.

 

This sounds awful like the problem I have with my BC9000, its as if when cold it cant read the cd, and like you say, after about 15 - 20 attempts it reads and plays no problem after that. My BC9000 can also be very picky with what it plays, it does not like most cdr's, which I dont have many of anyway.

I brought this up several times on the old forum, pitty we have lost most of the suggestions for a fix.

Graeme:

This sounds awful like the problem I have with my BC9000, its as if when cold it cant read the cd, and like you say, after about 15 - 20 attempts it reads and plays no problem after that. My BC9000 can also be very picky with what it plays, it does not like most cdr's, which I dont have many of anyway.

I brought this up several times on the old forum, pitty we have lost most of the suggestions for a fix.

 

let's hope there are som fix it friends here who have som suggestions 

The first thing I would try is clean the laser lens with a cotton wool bud dipped in isopropanol or similar. Sounds like the laser is having trouble finding focus.

If it is temperature sensitive, could it be dry solder joints? Usually a CDX problem rather than the CDX2 but worth a thought.

joeyboygolf:

The first thing I would try is clean the laser lens with a cotton wool bud dipped in isopropanol or similar. Sounds like the laser is having trouble finding focus.

 

I have done that, and it makes no different