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Re: Beogram 5500 CD

yachadm — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:55:24 GMT

Yes, I've done many of these. B&O uses the very common Philips CDM mechanism. C2103 needs to be replaced with a 47uF 25V (preferably).

Being that the original blue Philips capacitor is now unobtainable, I have tested Panasonic FM type, and it works just fine. I also replace all the other electrolytics at the same time.

I am always skeptical of other technicians who truthfully do not know what they are doing, even though they are very good liars when they convince you that they know what they are doing. I surely hope that your previous technician did not start playing with the laser current adjustment, in order to force the laser to read. There are unscrupulous techs who do exactly that - the laser will read for a short time, and then burn with no option of repair.

So, I would just confirm with your previous tech whether he did make any adjustments. If so, work only according to the service manual, to minimise the chances of destruction when you apply power for the first-time after installing all new capacitors.

Menahem

Re: Beogram 5500 CD

Steffen — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:26:40 GMT

Of course it can be repaired. A shame that many repair shops today just want to replace modules, instead of actually trying to repair things. Many just want to replace the CD-drive mechanism instead of actually trying to repair the machine. And to this model the CD-drive is no longer available. But -it is probably not the drive/laser that is the problem, but only some caps that need to be replaced.
On Beoworld there are several threads about this problem. Just search CD 5500.

Or have a look at this thread:

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/9684.aspx?PageIndex=1

Part of it is in german, but you could use Google translate.

Beogram 5500 CD

5290mavis — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:02:57 GMT

WE have a Beogram stack system everything plays fine except the CD player. a couple of years ago the sound started to flutter occaisonally but now its doing all the time. We have had it in at our local B & O dealers but they say they cannot get the parts. We live near Stockport can we get it repaired and if so anywhere local to us.

Thanks 5290mavis