Well first of all congratulations to all of you on this wonderful site. I awoke yesterday with a memory of a wonderful audio system my dad had when I was younger, so went straight to my moms house and found it in the loft. It is a wonderful BeoSystem 5500, which I hope to use in my new home. I have discovered...

Martin, Your advice was absolutely spot on, as always! Everything works fine again after re-soldering all edge connectors, all pushbuttons respond as they should. Curiously I noticed that one of the several tiny capacitors soldered onto pins at the left hand side connector of the processor board had...

Beocord HX 8002 There is a Tech question I have for anyone with knowledge of B&O electronics, The cluster of wires 6 or 7 together as a multi colored harness that carries the sound and the digital VU readout when recording or playback. they came loose from the black plastic connector . So my question...

My beloved Beomaster 8000 now works like a dream, thanks to Dillen's excellent capacitor set and expert help with the displays. Unfortunately, to my surprise yesterday the pushbuttons on the main control panel stopped working. There is no response at all, which made me think of a loose connector...

Can anyone advise how deep problem might be? Sound went quieter (from mid) and indistinct, then with soft "bump" lapsed into silence while playing aux/CD. Power telltale remains lit, but both channels absolutely silent whatever vol/bal from tuner/aux i/puts, and all to outputs. No obvious external...

Hi, I'm the owner of a Beocenter 7000. It works fine but is showing some strange behaviour regarding the turntable. Whenever a record is playing it stops after a while; the arm is lifted and turned to the starting position after that the beocenter goes to standby. The time between the starting and...

Well, I have some good news and some good news on the sparking (and capacitor) front(s). I finally solved the sparking issue. When I first retrieved the 1600, the aluminium cover panel (the brushed plate surrounding the tape turntables) had the two brass locating pins pulled out of their retaining holes...

Thanks casdave, that's exactly what's happened. The tants (especially on the preamp boards) have long since turned into, er, dynamic resistors. I changed the two in the preamps, and the hum and crosstalk disappeared from the preamps. I've just got around to getting a big bag of good quality...