One of the big advantages of using it for an audiomaster is the ability to control bass, treble, loudness, and balance from your listening chair using the remote control. A big advantage over the "purist" approach of no tone controls at all.

I almost never use the CD player in mine, but I have a set of the B&O demo CDs with the pretty art on each one that they used as demo discs in B&O stores. A weird and wide variety of music, and they look gorgeous in the player. Even if you never use the CD player you should get some really attractive discs to load into it. Might as well make it a real artwork.

Well it looks like I just bought a new laser unit (the entire unit) for the Beosound 9000 off eBay for $80USD.  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/191227675698?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Has anyone ever changed this before?  I've taken apart my beosound 4000 to solder a new ambient light. But that was with some youtube instructions. Since there's no youtube videos on this, I'll have to follow the service manual.

I don't want to spoil your party, but how do you know that this is the right laserunit? There are different units used. Only the right laser will work.

And the mentioned laser unit isn't a B&O one. The CDM12.6 is just one of them used by B&O. The original B&O units have a black plate on top of the unit which hides the pickup element. Only the lens is visible.

Good point beobuddy.  I guess I'm not 100% sure it's the right laser unit but it is listed for the MKI.  In any case it would just be icing on the cake if all worked well.

Yesterday, I tinkered with the Beosound 9000 a little more and reattached the spring to the left door holder.  I used a piece of string to pull the spring out to reattach.  I hope I have done it right.  The door holder is now always in the open position now but once the glass is reattached (oh yea, I re-glued the glass to the hinges!) it closes due to the weight of the glass.

Can anyone confirm that the left door holder is always in the open position if the glass is removed?

Previously, the sledge would pickup a CD but not spin.  A few seconds later the read out shows "CD Pause"  

After cleaning the laser lens with water and a Q-tip and running a few test modes I can now get CDs to spin but after a few seconds it stops and reads "CD ERROR 2".

Based of the error code, I'm afraid that the laser unit is shot according to other forum posts here.  Can anyone offer any other advice aside from cleaning the 2 clear pyramids, the black area on either side of the CD chamber, and laser lens?

Thank you again!  This has been exciting!

Yep, one of the holders is always in the open position if the glass is removed.

There a number of things you should do. Those black chambers are cosmetic. Only one hides an infrared-eye.

Clean the complete bracket surface on the side without the driven the driven hinge. There are 3 infrared -eyes,

Without powerlink attached, the bs9000 will always be in option 0. After every on/off switch it will be in option 0.

Clean the tacho sensor at the big wheel. Be VERY carefull with static electricity. These parts are extreemly sensitive (my experience)

Place a new belt in the hingemechanisme

Clean the sledge sensor at it's bottom. Clean the white parts. Also VERY sensitive.

Inside the sledge there is a cd positions Led and LDR. clean both. 

The hinge is pressed down, but comes up when you release it.

Thank you BeoBuddy for the tips and taking the trouble to photograph the part in question.

The image was extremely helpful since I didn't know exactly where the spring was to connect but I'm relieved I did it correctly because it's not symmetrical with the top door holder.

okay!  I've restore my BeoSound.  Everything looks great except the CD don't play which is minor for me since I'll be using the Aux mostly.  

Thank you everyone for your help!

dsid2000 wrote:

okay!  I've restore my BeoSound.  Everything looks great except the CD don't play which is minor for me since I'll be using the Aux mostly.  

Thank you everyone for your help!

Good to hear, enjoy it!

What CD  mechanism is used with yours?

Does the sledge work? Does it (un)load the CD properly?

Would be nice if it would work completely, wouldn't it?