[AdamS]

The most likely cause is that the tracking sensor bulb has blown.

Replacement here: https://www.dksoundparts.com/product/lamp-for-tracking-photo-sensor-for-beogram-3000-3300-3500-4500-5500-6500-7000-9500-etc/

[AdamS]

I’ve had this issue with Beolab 8000s and it usually means you’re using the wrong type of Powerlink cable that doesn’t have the right shielding.

Steve at Sounds Heavenly will be able to advise and sort you out with the right cables.

[AdamS]

As someone who has always hated the Beolab 2, I would say that a change to a Beolab 19 would be a huge upgrade!

When it came to music, the Beolab 19 impressed me with its well-balanced, tight and tuneful bass on the couple of occasions I have heard it. The Beolab 2 just seems to boom randomly along about half a second behind the rest of the frequency range.

[AdamS]

It seems I’m too late and you have a solution, but the Beomaster 6500 should not have any problem driving your ALR speakers.

It sounds like the output stage bias settings may have drifted off and need checking and re-setting.

[AdamS]

That’s the sort of thing, yes, but I’m missing the whole section from the centre of the top of the grille, across to the left, the short bit to the front and then down the side to the middle in the bottom. I’ll post a picture tonight if i remember.

[AdamS]

The 2000 series radial tracking decks have always sounded better then the linear tracking 3000 types, so it’s no contest for me!

[AdamS]

I must admit I’m struggling with this one.

Beogram 4000 (or 4002, actually…) – absolute classic and a design icon known by anyone interested in audio worldwide

BeoSound 9000 – one of the most instantly recognisable bits of B&O kit and another design icon in its own right

I get the re-creation of both of these, but Beogram 3000? Really? It’s a middle of the range and unremarkable turntable from the last generation of B&O decks and the chief selling point I can see for picking it as a candidate is that there are plenty kicking around and suspect very few people will be bothered about a hundred vanishing off the market!

I’ve no doubt that the system will sound great and it looks lovely, but this is straying dangerously close to the UK comedian Harry Enfield’s “I Saw You Coming” shop sketches, for my liking.

Come on B&O – how about something NEW for your centenary?!

[AdamS]

I have a personal theory that is completely and utterly unsubstantiated by anyone, but here goes:

– Beolab 90s are currently £141,000 in the UK

– The next model down in the range are the Beolab 50s, which are £52,000

That’s quite a big gap.

Just saying…. 😉

[AdamS]

No.

Just……………..NO!

[AdamS]

What makes you think they need re-capping?

I’ve owned dozens of B&O cassette decks over 30 years or so, and not one of them has required re-capping.

[AdamS]

Well, I take it back. Not seen one of those before!

[AdamS]

This deck would have an MMC1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 in it – are you sure some of the writing hasn’t rubbed off?!

Alternatively, can you post a picture?

[AdamS]

Excellent news – enjoy!

[AdamS]

I didn’t actually need to do mine as the foam was fine – as above, it was the crossover damaging them!

As to the capacitors, I have absolutely no doubt that the capacitors in the Danish Sound Parts kit will be correct – my question was whether they were right before this? Like I said, someone had been at mine before I owned them, and one of the capacitors in each crossover was wrong – I only found this out when I fitted the new capacitor kit.

[AdamS]

If you’re lucky, it may just be the foam behind the driver. There’s a sheet of foam that is pressed by the plastic cover behind the midrange and tweeter to provide pressure form the rear to hold it in place. This foam can age and deteriorate, so the midrange isn’t being held in firmly, and can rattle. Change the foam or add a bit more in, and this may well fix it.

If you’re unlucky, it may be the same problem i had with both my MS150 midranges, where some idiot re-capped the crossovers in the past and put the wrong capacitor values in the midrange circuit, allowing too much low frequency to get to the driver, and eventually causing the voice coils to overheat and fall off the formers. When you re-capped, were all the new capacitors the same value as the ones you took out?

[AdamS]

Beocenter 9500 every time.

Beocentral explains it, and isn’t very complimentary about the 9300! – https://beocentral.com/beocenter9300

 

[AdamS]

Sorry for the obvious question, but your 45rpm LP isn’t a version made of clear or see-through vinyl is it?

[AdamS]

Quality Dream Audio have an excellent reputation and I have no doubt that they’ll sort everything out for you, but you’re also only just down the A3 from Tim Jarman in Farnborough. To say that Tim has an “encyclopaedic” knowledge of B&O would be to under-state the amount of information in a encyclopaedia!

You can contact him through his website here if you’d like him to take a look: https://beocentral.com/contact

[AdamS]

Personally I wouldn’t dream of ruining a pair of Pentas by adding the Beolab 2 unless you particularly like boom, thump and appalling timing!

Is a Beolab 19 out of your price range, as this is a far better unit?

As an aside, Peter, I didn’t know Multicare could service Penta amplifiers. I may have to speak to them as both of mine are completely knackered…

[AdamS]

There’s a gear in the centre section of the mechanism that crumbles with age and fails – this is usually what causes this.

Search “Beosound Century gear” on eBay for a selection of newly-made reproductions that will fix the issue.

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