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ModeratorI also find it’s a great news: it’s always a good thing to have people investing in youngtimers products and keeping them alives…
But, many question though:
- Price, of course.
- Reliability: is it the same tech that the original that will inevitably make it malfunction within two or three years (independently of the battery health)?
- Usefullness: really nowadays there is very little a Beosound 3 can offer, no other more recent device can make better or at least the same. I know some people have still the unit as part of their brick & mortar life and for them it’s a great news, but…
I used to have two units: one was sold as donor (and curiously find a buyer, whats defeat all I said above…). The other is more a decoration than a music device. Once a year i need to take the keyboard appart and thoughrougly clean it, and it will work for 12-15 month again, but beside displaying time it is useless.
From now on (since a couple of years in fact), I don’t buy anything B&O that has not Aux-In.
And BS3 should have it more than the useless headphone socket.Anyway, I wish you to sell all your batch.
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Unfortunatly, it is the conclusion I’m more and more drawn to: I WANT this B&O thing, I SWEAR I need it and it suits perfectly the need, but in the end it is nor needed nor usefull.
I’ve got two A3’s – Collecting dust (all with iPads within).
I’ve recently bought an A8, just to touch it – Collecting dust.
And plenty of B&O stuff – Collecting dust or waiting (for what?).Anyway, you remember my picture in the “show your B&O” thread? It was an A3 with the Mont-Blanc in the background.
I think you posted about a silver Beosound 1 CD just after that.
Well just for that time, underlined by our brief exchange, I am happy to own one, ready to play music even if the whole internet collapses.Location: Paris France
I have two of those.
In the end, the one I used to use the most, and to me the easiest and most efficient solution is the one with a 64 GB iPad 1 you can find for very cheap anywhere. It makes it standalone and easy to use. Add VLC and you got a mini Beovision including streaming from any computer on the network.
People who need to stream would benefit a lot of any B&O BT speaker like a first gen Beoplay A1.
I agree on the surprisingly good sound quality – and of course on the amazing unstability in two out of three positions.
Hope everybody’s good.
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If you still have the original drivers…
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Thank you both for your help,
The Apple dock part has indeed been removed and they’re is still remains of the plastix legs inside but no more.
Pending is a connector with 4 or 6 white wires and one red, one black. It cpnnects to the 30 pin actual dock connector and member Leogoneswild post once a picture or the part where it should connect. So unless there is something inside like “if nothing is connected that means something is connected” the unit can’t see an iPod on it.Moreover it works connected to a Mac as USB audio and it works as line-in with autosense. I think that if the unit was tricked believing an ipod is connected I wouldn’t be able to select another source.
I’ve got the service manual for the BS8 but it is not of any help appart the wiring of the pending connector. I’m unable to interpret it correctly but I wonder it it can be turned into a line in port to have two remote selectables line-in input? Matter for another topic.
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The headphones socket is in the command that opens when you push the dedicated side of the front panel. There you can also start a radio to see if it sounds. I suspect you didn’t read the manual since you can’t find the headphone socket: you should find it (available here in Beoworld for silver and gold members) and read it carefully. Those units are old and sometimes have a different handling than moderns sound devices.
There is no dedicated mini jack entrance to connect your phone (again, its an old device from a time phones were not media players). You must use a mini jack to twin RCA wire and connect it to the Tape 2 ou CD input.
So far it is complicated to tell if your problem comes from the amp or from the deck.
Also know that BM5000 is a wonderful piece of hardware (even more with the rights speakers), but nowadays they are often faulty.
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Hi Edoardo,
Do the Beomaster turns on?
Do you have sound from any other sources (Radio or tape if you can try it with a player like your phone)?
Have you sound from the headphones?
How are your speakers connected?
You should also have two jumpers on the sockets next to the tape connectors, do you have them?
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Hi alls and Guy,
I did set the unit to A.OPT 5 and it partially worked: I have volume control but I’m unable to start the unit via an A.AUX command. Tried from a Beo 6 A.AUX command and a Beolink 1000 SHIFT+Radio command.
Actually not a big deal, volume control is enough. But I’d like to understand why it don’t work.
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Hi Guy,
Hope you’re well.
I’ll try this tomorrow after a good cleaning of the unit.
Do you think the BS 8 has Option settings? Really? (Edit: Ok yes it has, stated in the topic you mentionned. Sorry).
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Buttons i’ve generated are either .jpg @ 10 kB or .png @ 4 kB.
They were then converted to .bmp @ 15 kB.
All plain RVB, no alpha channel.
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Posts about full screen pictures on the remote screen have been moved to a specific topic and can be found here:
https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beo5-6-full-screen-images/?view=all#post-77413
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Hi Filip,
Thank you for your kind words.
Here is a link to the complete topic I did when I was experimenting:
https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/p/37669/286902.aspx
Bottom line is:
The solution is a picture size of 105×49 px with one line of pixels overlapping at the bottom meaning each picture should be 105×48 px border to border and add at the bottom the first line of pixels of the button below.No such thing for the side to side button: 105 px wide makes them just line up fine.
If you’re comfortable with Photoshop, I’ve attached a little droplet that will split a full picture of 315×240 pixels into 12 tiny pictures that you must manually add to each button to have a full screen image without offset.
Please rename the .pdf into .zip and extract the archive. The droplet was made on Mac but I beleive it should run on PC.Hope this helps.
NB: I’ve moved your question to a new topic to keep things neat since it is not battery related.
Attachments:
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j’entends uniquement le son de frottement du diamant sur le disque.
Bonjour et bienvenu sur Beoworld.
Quand vous dites ça, vous parlez du bruit “acoustique” que fait le diamant sur le vinyl ou bien un son électrique amplifié par le Beomaster ?
Si c’est le premier cas c’est peut-etre aussi simple qu’un mauvais raccord dans le cable ou bien un contact déssoudé.
Si la platine fonctionne correctement du point de vue mécanique, vous vous épargnez déjà beaucoup de complications.
“Tripotez” aussi la cartouche : soit elle est mal enclenchée – facile – soit elle gigote et ce peut etre la parti qui permet de la clipser qui est cassée – plus compliqué.Dans tous les cas, et je ne veux pas dire de bétises alors je vous laisse vérifier, il me semble que le chemin entre la cartouche et la sortie est direct et sans électronique intermédiaire (hors cas d’un RIAA intégré) donc il est assez simple de suivre le chemin et de trouver la panne.
Tenez nous au courant.
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I find then quite interesting.
My S45 are long time gone but if I had them I would try a round base and a a cable path in the main pole.
Still a good and inspiring idea.
Thanks for sharing
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Hi alls,
Certainly a great collectible and maybe some unknown pictures. But…
I personnaly hate Assouline editions; they’re used to publish unbeliveably overpriced books with absolutely no content in it that you could’nt find by yourself anywhere else. Even paper and binding are average to say the least. Nothing more than Taschen but 10 times the price.
Nevertheless, I’m sure it will sell well and even more second hand at scandalous prices.
JMTC…
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The BL18s have been around for quite some time.
Stan,
I quote only part of you post but agree all of it.
Nevertheless (to me) BL18 have never been superseed in terms of design, look, etc…
I personnaly hope the discontinuity will make their second hand price drop.To me BL18 ARE Bang&Olufsen.
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Tron Ares…
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Couldn’t it be the top piece to be cracked and soon to break?
That’s my fear each time I need to remove the cartridge. Those plastics are very old and prone to break and I also know there is 3D print model available around and people who sell that part.Worth a look.
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Hi,
Does it behave the same way when you remove the belt? If not, it may be the belt that is not correct at put to much strain on the motor or something like that.
It is common in this forum to only trust belts sold by Danish Sound Parts, sponsor of the this place. Nevertheless, try the deck without belt and see if the motor spins. If it does, try to gently pinch the pulley and see if it stops easely. In all case, your motor will surely benefit from an overhaul (lubrication).Also know that speed unstability may also come from the electronic part, namely a relay with corrodes contacts or bad trimers.
Good Luck.
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