I have a question regarding my beogram 4500. I do not use this turntable with a beocentre, I have the beocentre4500 but it needs repairing. Instead, I use my beogram with other amplifiers by way of an adapter. My beogram has a built in phono amp but I find that the output is rather low. With most amps it's just about loud enough with the volume at max. I live in a small, joined house and when listening to music via CD deck or DAC on the same amp, the volume would be too loud at 1/4 Volume. Even with my self built ecl82 valve amp which only outputs a couple of watts per channel, max volume would be too loud for my listening room most of the time (when listening to these other sources).
Is there a modification I could do to disable the onboard phono pre on the beogram in order to use a separate phono amp?
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Do you have the service manual for the BG4500? It's available on site for Silver and Gold members. I think that people have removed or by-passed the internal pre-amp in the past and it would be worth searching the archived forums for info.
Location: Warwickshire, UK
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It broke of the top plate where it fits onto the beogram 4500It broke of the top plate where it fits onto the beogram 4500
Looks to me like the area the screw fir the hinge screws into the plastic around it broke someone tried a repair that worked for a while, however to me not a good repair. Im trying to figure out how i can fix it better and what to use to do so.Your cropped closeup had me confused as to where the failure was. It is actually the hinge base not the hinge which has lost its screw. My recommendation would be to epoxy a nut (or if not wide enough add a washer) to the underside from which a screw from the top can thread.Thanks i got sine epoxy and it worked perfecty
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