Hi

I dont know if you know it, but if you will change in your chassies for a replacement, the dealer or service parter could not get excenge module price if you have done some own replacement on the chassies. Thats mean you need to pay a very high price to get a new chassies, compare if you let B&O make the fix for the chassies from the start. 

But hope your replace of the capacitors will hold longer:) as you say, seems you have good skills for replace, but I only inform you so other people her in the forum think one more time before they start to fix them self. =)

And hope you get the mid range driver replace and fix:) 

Good look with your BeoLab 5. 

Glad this sounds like it’s not a chassis.

For the record, when I had my BL5s, I went through an upper tweeter when I heard distortion. I had both replaced to keep them the same as it were.

Apart from hearing the obvious distortion, pushing test tones through should give a clear indication of damage - though not definitively. I would expect the driver to be distorted if that was the fault and assume no sound would be a EPROM issue.

You had me at Renault 5 Gordini... I didn't see anything else 😁

9 LEE wrote:

You had me at Renault 5 Gordini... I didn't see anything else 😁

Haha! Yes - I have been a fan of the Renault 5 Gordini (Turbo) for 20+ years! Sadly, I sold my Gordini Turbo this year. I have a Turbo 2 though (you can find it on YouTube - it's the black, highly customised one reviewed by JayEmm on cars and Motor Addicts).

Thank you to all of you for your replies. I am indeed concerned that replacing parts on my chassis means it cannot be used for exchange later on. However, I can always refit the original capacitors before exchange! I'm also a huge DIY fan, and I can see how it might be possible in (20+ years), when parts are no longer available, to do some DIY work to re-engineer the BL5. I've done a lot of DIY electronics and am currently looking at class D amplifier designs for my classic car project. I could imagine that an off the shelf microcontroller and DSP could be embedded in the BL5 and it could send the various signals to the different driver amps, upgraded ICEPower or even something else. The power supplies are perhaps the most challenging part of the design, but you can buy ICEPower amps with integrated power supplies. 

A suitable microcontroller could be a Teensy with its audio board and a DSP. A computer with a calibrated mic could be used for setting the equalisation parameters.

Anyway, I digress. Fingers crossed that the replacement drivers fix my problems!

Andrew