hi peter,

i saw the screw pins but i'd never thought to just remove them. but i did and now i have music from the 3300!!  thank you for the advice!! 

the 3000-2 is the slide rule model. it's totally a piece of art to me!!  the man i picked these up from also has a bm 2400 which i thought i would go back and pick it up and give it a whirl. i only have to pay for what i want to keep and he wants a happy customer.   

the 3300 does chatter a bit when the door raises and closes. i'll address that after i figure out what is up with the cd-x.

Very nice receiver. The only problem I had with mine was a noisy transformer - the core delaminates. The 2400 is a lovely device - was the first piece of B&O I bought!

Also, do you know that the CD must be played upside down in relation to how we normally load a CD? Perhaps that is the issue?

hi beojeff,

the upside down loading didn't do it. it didn't even start to spin.

after loading and pushing play everything appears normal, just no sound. i can hear something and when i push stop i hear that something come to a stop.   i've never had a cd player act like it's working, reading the cd and counting through the song and not hear it.    i thought i'd try to use an rca to 5 pin adapter but couldn't find one here in tulsa.      i'll keep trying!   thank y'all for your help!!

that's my next plan of attack!!   thank you for the suggestion!

latest update:

i noticed that the case was askew a bit in the back where the rca cables come out. turns out they have been worked on in the past sometime and were crimped by the case itself. there was a crude splice and it was  taped up with duct tape (of all things!).  my watchmaker here locally used to be a b & o dealer and he's going to replace the rca cables for me hopefully this next week as i'd love to listen to it soon.  on another note the cd 3300 is playing right now spectacularly through my kenwood kr-9400 (i want one of these b & o's connected to my 3000-2 but i don't have any speaker connectors yet)  the opening mechanism does chatter a little when opening and closing and i'll have that addressed as well from the mechanic.   

thank you guys for the input.  

I have a CDX2 that plays with the CD upside-down. I had thought the CDX might be the same.

here's the latest on my cd-x.  i had switched out the rca cables, put the machine back together and plugged it in to one of my amps and all i got was noise. i perused another site and posted my dilemma with the cd-x and the owner of the site said he had the same issue with his and after it was on for about ten minutes it would play fine.  so i turned it on and let it play and three songs in it was playing!!!    the only downside now is that it only plays out of one side.   i went back in and resoldered the connections and still get the same result.    but, leaving it on did the trick.    (by the way, i did reinstall the old rca cables and they wouldn't play at all.  they are in the trash again)      so now i'm closer to a usable piece instead of one that just looks cool and is amazing to look at!    

thank you again beoworld and everyone that reached out!!