Hello! Im new on here! Merry Christmas!

Well, I bought a Beogram 1700 for the father and we have plugged it into the back of his Beosound Century, and the sound isn't good at all! its really quiet, so we turn the volume up high but when its playing it sounds really tinny, with no bass!! what can i do to sort this out??????????????????

 

Please help me!!

 

Thanks!

 Rom 

 

Hi and welcome to the forum

Quick reply but the thing you are missing is called an RIAA box between the Beogram and Overture.

There are many aviable on the marked and and basically any box will do the job fine.

Any radio shop will mostly have such a box for sale.

Quite right! See this article !

okay thats very helpful! BUT.. i have a pre-amp, and theres a gain knob, and 3 buttons one says 'MIC' one says 'AUX' and the other says 'MID', and then i have the input and output points.... a 4 pin 'IN' socket and another 4 pin 'OUT' socket.. plus red and white in and out points........ what should i have in where???? should all these points be full? or should the 4 pins be in only, or the red and white points only?

 Im so confused!!

 Thanks for the really quick reply last time by the way!! 

Romilly Winter 

Not sure what sort of amp you have there! Sounds like a microphone amplifier which is different altogether. An RIAA will be a simple little box with an input and an output and no other controls. You can, if you have one, use an old integrated amplifier as long as it has an input designed for a record player. This would work by attacking the 1700 to the input and then attacking the Century or ouverture to the Tape out of the amplifier. You can pick up amplifiers like this at any flea market for about five pounds - or less! A dedicated RIAA would be better though!

I understand now.... i just need to get this RIAA thing and il be sorted... oh one other quick question.. how long are the needles life span? should i think about replacing it? and if i wanted to replace it where could i get the right needles?????

thanks! 

There is only one company who supply new cartridges for B&O Turnatables. See this link www.sound-smith.com . They are not cheap but sound wise are better than the originals

 

Craig

There is only one company who supply new cartridges for B&O Turnatables. See this link www.sound-smith.com . They are not cheap but sound wise are better than the originals

 

Craig