Hello Jonathan,

The good news is your equipment isn't broken. The bad news is you don't have a RIAA in you particular setup. The RIAA is  a pre-amplifier you'll need in order to get sound out of the recordplayer. The RIAA is built in the Beomaster 5500 and the Beogram 5500 will work fine with it. The RIAA wasn't built into the Beomaster 6500, but in the Beogram 6500 instead. When you hook up a Beogram 5500 with a Beomaster 6500 than there's no RIAA, and therefore you don't hear it as loud as you should. I believe you can get a seperate RIAA, but I'm not sure.

how is your search progressing, I might be willing to buy your 5500, as I have Beomaster 5500 in my study :-)

Hi,

I have just realised this sort of "contradiction".

In the technical specs of BM6500 (as you can see in the products section) it seems that RIAA pre amplifier is actually built in.

My question is: belonging the BG6500 to the "new" beograms generation with built in RIAA pre (like 4500, 3500...), how could I connect a BG6500 (!!!!) to a BM6500 (they were build to match!!!) if both apparently have the RIAA preamplifier? Did I miss something?

Thanks a lot for your answers...

mauro

Whatever the products section may say, I can assure you that the standard BM6500 does not have RIAA pre-amp built in.

The products section refers to the RIAA accessory that was available at the time but which has not been available for some years.

Thanks for your answer Graham.

Now my problem is: is the BM6500 riaa preamplifier switchable? Alternatively, is it possible to take it off without soldering operations etc (e.g. is it a removable board in the BM6500?) and take the BM6500 back to its original condition?

The reason:

I have a BS6500 (BM, CD, BC, Penta) without the record player and I'd like to add a BG6500. Fortunately, before buying it, yesterday I tried to connect my BG3500 (technically identical to the 6500) to the phono socket of the beomaster. With great surprise, I realised it can only be connected to the aux or tape2 socket; otherwise, using the phono socket, the riaa-amplified signal (coming from the record player) seems to be amplified again in the BM6500 before reaching my speakers.

Is there an easy way to sort this out?

mauro

I believe that the fitting RIAA board involved a small amount of soldering and I dare say some links have been cut.

If you prefer, you could disable the RIAA in the deck. I've never actually done this but I have had to reverse the procedure on a BG4500 deck that had been disabled.

Of course, you also probably have to reverse the datalink connection in the DIN plug fitted to the deck.

At the end of the day, you may be better off getting the RIAA remove from the amplifier by your dealer/service center. It should not cost too much.

Hello Graham,

what do you mean for "reversing the datalink connection"? Are there two types of datalink connections? Is there any difference in the datalink for a RIAA and a non-RIAA record player? I thought there was just one single datalink cable.

mauro