Excellent! I had searched the forum and checked out your restoration @sonavor. That looked pretty darn good when you got done with it. I will likely have some time as I wait for the sound-smith cartridge to arrive. I may make this a bit of a project as I wait. I also saw on youtube a guy that had also 'restored' his aluminum housing. It didn't look identical to the factory brushed look, but it did look a lot cleaner than it being scratched to heck!

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Is there a DIN cable extender that would connect to the male end of the beogram DIN to make it longer?

I'm going to have the turntable off to the side of my media console on a rack. I have purchased DIN to 3.5mm jack for my AUX media - do they offer such an extension cord?

You might want to contact Steve at

Thanks again! I just recieved my 6ft extension din and also replaced a din pin in the beogram cable. The cable allows me to have my turntable positioned in a more suitable spot for my living room setup and now I can control the 5500 from the comfort of my chair with the beolink 1000. 

I also decided to get a audioengine Bluetooth dac to bring my beomaster up to the times. With high quality music it sounds very clean and close to cd quality. Great for streaming albums I don't have. 

TortugaX5 wrote:

I also decided to get a audioengine Bluetooth dac to bring my beomaster up to the times. With high quality music it sounds very clean and close to cd quality. Great for streaming albums I don't have.

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