Beogram 4000 (is this worth buying as a project?)

[Ray J]

Hi,

I can potentially buy a Beogram 4000 for $500 Australian (~285 Euro, ~325 USD), but it’s not operating correctly. I might be able to negotiate a price as well. I’m hoping I could get some advice if it’s worth buying and playing around with. I’ve had a look at it, I’ll list the positives and negeatives I’ve noticed below.

Just to add, I am technically minded. As an example, I have a Beocenter 7700 (bought for $50 Australian) came with the MMC4 stylus. Wasn’t working properly, but have enjoyed working on it, now works as intended.

However, I have never owned any of the Beograms (apart from the one on the 7700) and never worked on one. I undesrstand the 4000 can be tricky.

Postives:

• The unit itself is in good cosmetic condition, not perfect, but still nice.
• Comes with the MMC 6000 stylus. Looks good, but cannot test.
• Powers on. Tonearm moves, but not properly.
• Tonearm does seem to move properly with manual control pad.

Negatives:

• Platter does not spin, so cannot test stylus.
• Dust cover is in poor condition. Hinges area is missing because it’s cracked off.
• Tonearm doesn’t move properly. When turned on with a record, the tonearm only moves slighlty towards the record and stops. It doesn’t actually go over the record as it should.

Unfortuantely that’s all I can really note at the moment.

I have attached a video showing what it does when tuned on.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

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[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Potentially a great deal, if for anything, just the MMC6000 cartridge, if it works, is alone worth more! If it works… On the turntable, you could get VERY lucky, but that is unlikely! So, step by step, $ by $, you could easily end up with another US$2000 in it, so you must decide if you want this wonderfull engineering masterpiece to become yours to keep and charish for another 40 years! You will know what you did to it, you will enjoy making it as well! Alternatively, you could just find a working one for less, say $1000-1500 and enjoy it equally… In a former scenario, just sticking to it and reading and learning from Beolover vlog and write-ups, you can go a long way and really enjoy the process of converting something that does not work into a beautifull working vintage deck!

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