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ChristianHak wrote:

It may be a bit superficial of me

It may, but then you’re not alone, I’m with you. 🙂

Steve did a great job there.
(Steve, BTW, you could perhaps make a video telling us the story behind those cables? Did you propose fabric cables or was it a demand from B&O, did you had a briefing, etc etc…)

Anyway…

As mark said, I would not touch the original cables for the reasons he said. But what I would do, and would have done if my cables were apparent, is to by electrical fabric sleeved cable by the meter (cheap), à pair of white fabric gloves from a photo supply shop, strip the cable from its fabric sock, it is not glued. remote the DIN connector, socks in the fabric back around the original wire and solder back the plug.

Best of both world!

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Hi,

Yes it’s ok. You can also use the handle of a coffee spoon or whatever is flat, thin and large.

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The whole series…

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The party.

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timornellas wrote:

The laser optic has been carefully cleaned

Do you actually mean above lens, under lens and mirror? Because surface cleaning of the lens is NOT a proper cleaning.

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Yes it should!

I also forgot to thank you, so, thank you.

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DT79 wrote:

Also if the TV does only have one USB, could there be a some kind of power setting which affects whether the USB is always powered or not?

From my experience with a Samsung TV, USB power goes off when the TV is in standby.
I’ve got an IR repeater plug on it and it don’t work when the TV is sleeping but works as soon as the TV is back on.

Also, when there is more than one usb socket, sometimes one has 5V power and the other don’t. The one with power shall be clearly identified.

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Hi alls, Playing again here!

Today I plugged again an MCL IR eye and a lot of things did happen!

First  the wiring of the eye: thank you Guy for pointing me the wiring different is different from Beolink IR eye. Since you had a doubt  about Yellow or White I can clarify:

Green is 5V
White is DATA
Brown is Ground

The Beoport was set in “Respond to Audio and Video Commands” through LP2 preferences. Equivalent to OPT 2 or 6, it says.

The Beolab 3500 was set in L.OPT 0 where nothing happened and then in L.OPT 2.

From there, I was able to command LP with the Beo4 but this time in Mac mode (MM), not Distribution mode (DM). I was also able to navigate through the album (or artist or radio…) lists the iPod way. But the Beolab 3500 is still seeing the press on menu and enters Timer programmation mode. I won’t prevent you from navigate but at the same time you’re programming a random timer.

Another interesting thing is that now I can call video sources (so far I’ve just linked CD with the TV command).

LP2 shows volume level but it’s not linked to the Beolab Level: for instance when I adjust the volume, it may be at 26 on the Beolab and at 58 on LP2. When LP2 reach the max volume of 72, the Beolab continues to increase. LP2 volume is somehow attached to the Mac volume.

By the way, still no title display on the BL 3500!

All in all it seems a little bit less responsive but it needs to be confirmed because I changed the Mac and this one as only 1GB of memory.

The system still behave randomly sometimes essentially when you call N.Music. and you need to quit and relaunch LP2.

Going into Distribution mode looks to work but it don’t, it show you an album cover, the one playing if you’re lucky but from there there is not much you can do. Interestingly, in Distribution mode you can not navigate in list anymore.
In MM you can put the Beolab to standby by touching the front panel but LP2 stays active. You can then put LP2 in standby with a long press on the transceiver Mute key.

In DM a short press on the Mute key put the whole system to standby.

That’s all for now!

 

 

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matador wrote:

No, you need a laser deep clean.

Beobuddy wrote:

it has nothing to do with the pickup element.

In fact, I was surprise by the lock up behavior: I’ve got a BC2300 with bad laser and it spins, stops and stay like that, I dont hangs. But I post this anyway after the test mode report.

Thanks for correcting me and sorry to the OP.

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No, you need a laser deep clean.

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Mark-sf wrote:

While replacing caps and relays is called for as a general restoration strategy nothing is harmed to wait for a failure if it’s working fine.

Just for saying that, Thank you Mark-sf! Really.

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While there, I tried to set a timer with a radio station pre-selected.
I put the Mac to sleep and at the programmed time it wake up and started the radio.

This guy Phil did a very good job…

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Playing again…

When in Mac mode, I’m able to go a level up in the hierarchy through the Apple Remote:
Short press on Menu makes MENU blinks and you can go up or down levels with the arrow.

But when in Distribution mode, when you have to use a B&O remote, pressing menu just bring the timer menu on the Beolab 3500. I dont know but I suspect this is preventing the Beoport to gat the IR command and then to pass it to LP avoiding browsing.

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No reaction from both sequences in RADIO or MUSIC mode…
From a BL5000.

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Hi Cedric, Welcome to Beoworld.

It was a long time ago but what I remember is that after fitting the new belt I could turn a little bit the flywheel and see all move accordingly until it get hard to spin and get stuck.
Being there I forced slightly and that was where the big clac happened and after this,  all was turning freely and smoothly. I built up the unit again and all was good.

About the belt: for anything in rubber, we have our local specialist, member Dillen. He would put the shame on you because he’s not very friendly with Portuguese Belt that brought a lot of headache to him but it worth trying to contact him through the forum or straight to Beoparts.com. There you’ll find the best and only belts that would guaranty you the problem is not from them.

However I doubt the problem would come from even the worst belt if it is fresh. When I repaired my first unit, I fitted a rubber band to be sure the problem was from there before ordering parts and it did work. Portuguese belts won’t last long or add wow and flutter or whatever malfunction, but as far as I know, they will not block the deck straight on.

My ignorant guess would be wrong belt path and if not I dont know, sorry.

Dillen should chime in quickly: I suspect him to have an alert on the word “belt”. He will tell you…

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Playing with it…

I figured out that radios are not seen as radios because they are in a playlist but because iTunes/LP2 recognize them as being continuous streams i.e. radios.

In fact, I’m used to add radios in playlists like if they were bookmarks for the long list of worldwide radios available, but I never noticed that they are actually added to the main library like if they were individual tracks.

I need to see now how this reacts to the read and blue modes: need to dig out a Beo4!

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Source buttons.

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Quick tip: the beo4 (in my case BL5000) do wake up the Mac from sleep.

 

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Yes. I’ve tried LC2’s with various led bulb including advertised as dimmable (but they were of the cheap kind) and none of them worked, only tungsten bulb minimum 40W, including in the on/off mode.

I read something about trailing edge and leading edge dimmers when I was on this, but bulbs for the kind of dimmer the LC2 is supposed to be (I dont remember precisely) were expensive so I just dropped the idea.

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Yes. Having them all checked or only one by one makes no difference.

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