Hello folks,
a few years ago I moved back to Germany and got to furnish my new flat with items my parents had stored in their basement, one of which was an old Beocenter 2200 with a pair of Beovox S2400 speakers that my dad had originally used when he was a student.
Now, there are a couple of issues and questions I have, bear with me if I'm a bit ignorant and all over the place, I have no clue about any of this. However, hopefully someone can help me to get what I want out of this thing.
First of all, I like to keep the Beocenter for nostalgic reasons and obviously because it allows me to listen so records as well, which I still like to buy.
Now, technically the center seems to work well, but I noticed that for both the output pairs (speaker 1 and 2), no matter which pair I use, one of the speakers will be very quiet.
I therefore thought the issue might lie with the balance controller, and wouldn't you know, if I slide it up entirely (to R), both speakers will be equally loud. I mean quiet, they become very quiet, even on high volume, but at least equally so.
I am not sure if the issue really lies in the balance control, maybe some of the internal wires are broken and that's why one signal always remains weak compared to the other, but these are my observations.
So far I have circumvented all of this by plugging a modern speaker into the headphones output of the Beocenter, since this still allows me to listen to my records, but without using the old speaker system.
So, would anyone have an idea on how I could approach fixing this? Don't get me wrong, using my modern speaker via the headphone jack is fine, but I would at least want to try and find a way to use the old ones my dad used before me. Unfortunately I don't have any experience in fixing electronic devices, but I'm reasonably good at picking things up.
Follow-up question: is it possible to split the signal from the headphone output to two modern speakers instead of just one? Having some output is nice, having it in stereo would be much better though.
Again, sorry if I'm being ignorant here, but I thought I would start the new year with getting something which has been annoying me for quite a bit out of my system and done with.
In this sense, happy new year to everyone!
Thank you in advance for any possible help you can contribute!