Chris, I am just in the middle of restoring a Beogram 1102 which is virtually the same machine as yours. I've done the mechanics and am on with replacing the veneer on the edges now. Good looking deck, one button contol.
When you first try it, put a rubbish LP on. A common fault with this model means that at the end of play, it doesn't lift the arm and drags it across the record. It's an easy fix though.
You will easily get a good B&O amp for it from that time period for £20-£30 off eBay. Be careful when you get older speakers, they could have foamrot.
By the way, you have just contacted the incurable Beovirus!!😉
Welcome to Beoworld 😁

Andy T.

Now me being a Yorkshireman would look for some nice Beovox S55 speakers with foam rot for a tenner and repair them. One of my favourite B&O vintage speakers and if you can get the rosewood ones they look simply spectacular. Try and get the them with the original stands which are totally retro - cool and enhance the sound beautifully.

If you don't fancy tackling refoaming speakers (as a student I know you'll be far too busy using my taxes studying😁) then try and find some Beovox S60's which have rubber surrounds so won't have the dreaded foam rot.

You're bound to get conflicting advice re:- speaker choice but that's the fun of Beoworld, at the end of the day if you choose B&O speakers from this era you'll be very pleasantly surprised.

Chris.

There is a thread on here that lists which speakers do or don't suffer from foam rot. Tht is decay in the bass units if we have just bewildered you!

Best think to do is post a question here before you pull the trigger.

Simon
 

OK, I have bid on a couple of amps, the 1900 and 2200 on ebay as I would prefer to use one of those than my sansui one, but I will lpay all the different combinations when they arrive and pick the one I like most, sell on the others.

Some speakers currently on the bay at the mo are:

S45

P50 

C30

CX10 + CX100 (untested)

RL 1000

3800

Any opinions ? All look to be in good nick. 

As far as foam rot goes you my have issues with the C30 nd CX100. They have ess bass than some of the other speakers.

The S45 may suffer depending on model - ask the seller question for clarification.

 
RL1000's are part of the redline series, I have never heard them but they have a decent reputation. Hopefuly someoe can advise if foam rot may be an issue. 

The 3800 would be a good buy, shouldn't be too expensive, they will have a warm sound ad the retro look most of the speakers above won't have and they won't get foam rot.

 
You can find more background on each model in the product section here or in the reference section at Beocentral.com

Simon
 

OK so the deck came through today, the tone arm moves across when I put a record on it and hit 33, but stays on the outside and doesnt move inwards to actualy play the thing. Having no user manual and never actualy seen one of these before, what am I doing wrong?

edit: when I say moves across, i mean it just moves sideways, it doest lift, move, and drop. Is that what it should do? 

And one more quick question, the silver panel covering the base of the tonearm is raised at an angle, is this correct?

 
edit: pushed down on this silver piece and it seemed to click into place, and now the arm actually moves ono the record and begins to play, but every couple of seconds skips outwards towards it's starting position. Is this a problem with the arm, or the cartridge? 

Maybe the arm is incorrectly balanced. Did you check the stylus weight setting before trying? This might happen with a really low weight setting and the antiskating system forcing the stylus outwards.

Another problem might be that the arm isn't lowering enough. As with all old B&O devices with moving parts, the lubricants may have dried and seized something up or limit the movement of the mechanism.

-mika

Is the tracking weight set correctly? It should be set at 1g.

Craig🙂