As I got some work to do up in Monterrey, I will go to McAllen next weekend to pick up my BM/BL 5000 and some odds and pieces, my dear son went to Prague for a long weekend so I have no news about my Beolit 505, I will have to remind him about what is important and what not.

And Dennis nice buy

Wow, there has been quite a few additions since I was here last time! 

I finally have some spare time to tinker with stuff again, between work and school. My semester exam in marine engineering ended with A+ so the time was spent well I guess.

My addition from some time ago was a sad looking Beolab 5000 amplifier that was given to me by the primary school it belonged to. No lamps working, the bass slider was disabled by fixed resistors and one of the slider bodies were in terrible shape. The unit received new electrolytics, undoing the disabled slider and a 3D CAD drawing was made of the missing slider so it can be printed on occation. The lamps were replaced with warm white LED's with appropriately sized resistors (sorry folks, but I prefer to not have incandescent lamps burning out on me...) 😂

I share my workshop with a friend who replaced belts and idlers on his Pioneer cassette deck the same evening.

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The finished result so far, and now I know why so many of you like their sound - lots of clarity while maintaining a very deep bass response! 🤒

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Congrats on your exam results Soren 🤒 well done !

Good to see you are going into the 5000 range, enjoy.

valve1 wrote:

Congrats on your exam results Soren 🤒 well done !

Good to see you are going into the 5000 range, enjoy.

 

Thanks Eddie! 😎

I wasn't expecting it to sound so good, maybe I should rotate my system for a while? Beolab 5000, Beogram 4000 and Beocord 1800 open reel deck instead of the Beolab 8000 system 👍

Søren Hammer wrote:

I wasn't expecting it to sound so good, maybe I should rotate my system for a while? Beolab 5000, Beogram 4000 and Beocord 1800 open reel deck instead of the Beolab 8000 system

Hi Søren,

Such a monumental decision to make! But either way it will sound like a winner!

By the way, I really admire your technical expertise. Commendable! 😁

Jeff

The Beolab easily trounces my QUAD 303 and my ReVox A78 of the same era. I am not surprised at all Søren. This has been an addiction for a few years now.

In McAllen TX, arrived today, just checked all the small packages, Thank you Richard, more to come with pics

Looking forward to your unpacking pictures Søren!

chartz wrote:

Looking forward to your unpacking pictures Søren!

I gladly second that! 🤒

Jeff

Here goes:

The BL was already out of the box, my nice niece did it to confirm it was OK and the right item. But here the BM 5000 in the opened box

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The front, volume numbers and lines missing, 1 push button missing and 2 buttons wobbly.

Bottom view BL

Back view BM

More to come when back in Mexico