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Re: Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

Søren Mexico — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:26:56 GMT

a7d7:

Thanks for your help. I just tried the turntable with a friends Beomaster 5500 and it sounds great! I'm going to look for a Beomaster 5500 to use with the turntable.

I also bought a Master Contol 5500 with the turntable but I can't get that to work consitently with the borrowed Beomaster 5500. I'd like to find a manual for it.

Thanks again for the quick responses!

If you have a good working BM 6500, you will only need a preamp, I use my BG 2404 with my Beosound 3000 and a JEC TL 754 preamp, no problems, and that one you can get "over here".

But if you want to get a BM 5000, you can ship your 6500 down to me in Mexico

Re: Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

joeyboygolf — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:20:17 GMT

The Master Control 5500 should work just fine with the Beomaster 6500 as well as the 5500. They do need fresh batteries to work well otherwise they are a bit temperamental with a lot of "No Contact" displays.

Re: Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

a7d7 — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:55:58 GMT

Thanks for your help. I just tried the turntable with a friends Beomaster 5500 and it sounds great! I'm going to look for a Beomaster 5500 to use with the turntable.

I also bought a Master Contol 5500 with the turntable but I can't get that to work consitently with the borrowed Beomaster 5500. I'd like to find a manual for it.

Thanks again for the quick responses!

Re: Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

Die_Bogener — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:03:39 GMT

... or you install this little board in your preamp of the BM6500/7000. Cut 2 wires and it will work.

I dont know, wether this RIAA board is still available.

B&O part number: ???

Re: Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

Medogsfat — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:00:41 GMT

Hi & welcome to Beoworld, this is a very familiar story. It is a compatability issue but not insurmountable.

Neither the Beomaster 6500 nor the Beogram 5500 have an RIAA phono preamp fitted.

In the 6500 system it was fitted to the turntable & in the 5500 system it was fitted to the beomaster. You will need to fit an external preamp between the 2 to get the correct signal level. (B&O did produce a RIAA board to retro fit but these are very very rare to find these days)

Steve at Sounds Heaveny (one of the site sponsors) sells a RIAA kit with all the correct converter leads. You won't know the state of the cartridge until you do this.

Chris.

Low ouptut beogram 5500 with Beomaster 6500

a7d7 — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:52:58 GMT

Hello-I recently bought a Beogram 5500 turntable and am trying to use it with my Beomaster 6500 and the output is very low-almost no sound until I turn the Boemaster 6500 to full volume. I have not tesed the turntable with any other system yet..is it possible that the 6500 is not compaible or more likely a problem with the turntable/cartridge?

Thanks in advance.