One alternative is to get one of the later radial decks ,all those later tangential turntables 5005,3000,7000 etc are highly overrated. The later beogram radial decks however are vastly underrated the rx, rx-2 1800, 2000, 5000 are built like a proper turntables and have a better tonearm and are more reliable. They were just never as popular because everyone liked the look of the tangential decks.

Erik

Well, I went ahead and bought an 8002 off of ebay! It arrived the other day, and so far so good: Cosmetically, it's a 9 out of 10, and everything powers up fine. Only catch is that I still haven't listened to it because I don't have a 7-pin to RCA cable. I'd like to either make one myself or have someone do it for me. Is there a diagram showing which pin carries which signal? Thanks. 

Matt

You just need a 5 pin DIN to RCA. Readily available. The two extra pins unscrew. There needs to be an extra ground wire from the casing of the DIN plug to the ground on the amplifier. Sounds Heavenly can sell you a flash one! 🙂

Thanks, though I'd like to make my own or have a cable company I've used before make me a custom cable, which is why I need to know what the pin assignments are.

No problem - look

steve@soundsheavenly knows exactly what is required and he has them on his website. Very high quality and reasonable price. Postage is included world wide!

kimberley wrote:

 

Two problems with my turntables: I don't have original packaging (not insurmountable) but more importantly, the voltage and mains frequency would be wrong for the US. I believe that the drive for the 8002 is frequency-dependant, so a simple transformer wouldn't do the trick.

Sorry!

The Beogram 8000 series works with a quartz controlled computer, not mains frequency 😕

I would definitely get an 8000 or 8002 for your MMC2.

-Søren

Small addition - the 8000 of course uses the MMC20CL cartridge.

Oh *looks at Beogram 8000 in storage*

You're right 😁