The sad fact is that although many Beocenter 9000's look like new, they all have a problem area. The CD servo board will undoubtedly fail sooner rather than later due to capacitor problems and the CD clamping mechanism will fail due to disintegration of a tiny unobtainable piece of plastic!

So, if it wasn't for the CD they would be a good buy!!!

I have never tried it but a Beolink converter type 1611 should enable the Beocenter 9000 to communicate with a ML system.

Personally, I would not pay more than £100 as, if all else fails,you can flog the 2 glass panels and get your money back!!

Had my old Beocenter 9000 conncted through a Beolink converter to my BV3-32. One limitation I found was that you cannot set the Beocenter to Option 0. Or any other Option for that matter. So you got double commands when using the remote. Not sure if there was a later S.W. revision to cure this.

Craig🙂

I have one connected to an Avant via the convertor box with speakers connected to the Avant and it all plays fine through the ML link.

The Beocenter 9000s asking price is 600 Euro.

I'm a little confused about that CD servo board and plastic piece... is the tiny little plastic piece s.th. I could easily fix with spare parts from another CD player?

Now I'm unsure... 

Seems expensive to me - I would get the 9500.

TWG wrote:

The Beocenter 9000s asking price is 600 Euro.

I'm a little confused about that CD servo board and plastic piece... is the tiny little plastic piece s.th. I could easily fix with spare parts from another CD player?

Now I'm unsure... 

500 Euro's too much IMO.

The small plastic part is what holds the CD in place & is no longer available. I think B&O only used it in this model so no other CD player in the range has it. The CD servo board is also only used in this model & failures have been documented many times on the forum.

I agree with Peter - you can get a 9500 for the same money (probably even less) which is a much better buy.

Chris.

I agree with Graham, Peter and Chris though most faults to these are actually easily fixed.
The CD clamp may be an exception but the CD servo board can usually be repaired
fairly easy and cheap.
I normally try to steer clear of advicing regarding value but the price you mention
do sound a little higher than what most of these seem to go for.
Having said that, it's a beautiful system and it's worth what you are ready to pay.

The Beocenter 9500 is slightly newer than the 9000 but within recent years it too has
started to show CD reader faults (more than 95% of them fixable).
Stuck sliding doors and slipping belts, the cassette belts falling off, cracked solder
joints at the voltage regulators, bad muting relay, lose glass panels.
As with most things, there are many standard issues but all fixable.

I once started looking in to the Beocenter 9000 CD clamp but never cam up with a good fix.

Playstation, Discman and laptop CDrom drive clamps of different types have been tried without much success.
Maybe a reproduction of this part would be the way to go.

Martin

Dillen wrote:

The Beocenter 9500 is slightly newer than the 9000 but within recent years it too has
started to show CD reader faults (more than 95% of them fixable).
Stuck sliding doors and slipping belts, the cassette belts falling off, cracked solder
joints at the voltage regulators, bad muting relay, lose glass panels.
As with most things, there are many standard issues but all fixable.

I once started looking in to the Beocenter 9000 CD clamp but never cam up with a good fix.

Playstation, Discman and laptop CDrom drive clamps of different types have been tried without much success.
Maybe a reproduction of this part would be the way to go.

Martin

The 9500 exhibits most of the same faults as the 9000 as most of the components mentioned are common to all models in the range.

The exception is the CD clamping mechanism which is peculiar to the 9000. If the OP buys a 9000 and the plastic widget breaks up on the day after, he is left with a very pretty but large and expensive cassette radio.

There is no prospect, in the short to medium term, of an alternative being found or produced and it is unfair to state otherwise.

In the last 12 months I have scrapped at least 6 perfectly good 9000's for want of a 10p plastic widget. We have to face facts, the 9000 is as good as useless if you cannot play CD's.

There has to be a result for these... 

If S(t)onk is following this thread... I believe he made mention of considering working up a fix???

I would be happy to give it a go... I just don't have a 9000... or more importantly, the part in question!

I'd bet a cold beer that this can be solved.

OP: 600 in any currency is too strong (except USD, of course! 😂).