The fog is lifting...;-) Thanks much for your great explanations! I am wondering about the 'shimming' procedure that you mentioned in Pepps' thread. Is the gap marked with the arrow where you shim with the plastic strips? (Pepps: I hope you do not mind that I borrowed your pic - thanks for posting it! - I like to look at things before whipping

Hi Soren, This starts sounding like an exciting little project!! I wondered about alignment immediately after realizing how sensitive the scraping is to the alignment of the cone! I went to the foam seller's ebay store. I think the foams you selected fit my speaker's dimensions, too. It seems that the dust covers are sold in 1/4 inch steps.

I took the woofers out and cleaned them as good as I could. The loose remnants of the foams are gone. I tried to move the cones with the 'three finger method'. It seems I can move them without scraping. The orange dust caps are in good condition on both and are not perforated. I measured the resistance. Both have 3.9 ohm. The voltmeter shows

O.k....maybe I still can upload pics...sorry for the confusion: I tried moving the cones again. It seems if I hold them very steady, I can move them a few mm without getting the scraping noise. The orange bellows below the paper cones seem to be in good shape. The coil section is also lookin good... The mid/treble speakers of that speaker are also very

Hi Soren, The woofers are in really bad condition. There is significant scraping noise when trying to move the cones... with regard to posting pics, somehow all the relevant icons are gone on my mac/Safari/Firefox. I used to be able to post pics, but no more...probably some browser compatibility issue... Rudy

Hi All, I recently obtained a Beomaster 3000.2 and a pair of Beovox 3702. The beomaster and the speaker cabinets are in great shape, but the woofers are completely rotten. They make a scraping noise when moving the cones and the foams are completely gone. I wish I could post pictures, but since recently it seems I cannot post pics anymore on this forum

So could one then postulate that playing a CD-R is a good test for the condition of a CD player? I have no experience with B&O CD players so far, since I focused on older vintages until now...On a general level, what do you think about the 'serviceability' of the Beosound 9000 series? I noticed that there is only a service manual for the

Interesting! I asked this question since I recently had an encounter with a Beocenter 9500, and the CD-Rs I brought along for testing did not work, while the standard CDs did...bad capacitors??

Hi All, I have a shot at buying a BeoSound 9000 (not sure which Mk version at this point) and I was wondering if all or which Mk-versions can play CD-R/CD-RWs? I remember that this was for some time an issue with CD players in the 90's...some would only play store bought CDs...Any input would be welcome! Thanks+a Happy New Year! Rudy

Hi All, Last night I realized that my Beomaster 8000's volume control suddenly started spinning as freely as the tuning scroll wheel. The previously present damping is all gone. One can now slightly accelerate the wheel and then watch (and hear!!) as it runs up towards 6.0...Before I take it apart, I was wondering if anyone has had the same phenomenon