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Sorry for my reply in english…

Out of curiosity, may I ask “why”?

Of course it’s a beautiful object, I got one just after a member posted a picture of the flying saucer comfortably charging on its stand with this magic ring of light underneath.

But honestly, once you have play a little bit with it, I’m sorry to say its sort of useless.
Anything will do better, SD cards are moody, files handling all the same even more if you are on Mac, If you have the chance of getting the iTunes plug-in, it dont work anymore on recent iTunes version, battery life is non-existant and about the beauty of the thing, anything but the wind will scratch it. What did you say? “Sound quality”? just check the specs read formats.

Unless it’s for display or very (very) cheap, I’d like to know why?

– Still I keep mine 😉 –

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Losing Alice…

Very lifelike Beolab 8000 with wrinkled fabric (!) but too close one to each other and of centered with the 6000 in the back or even the video projector. There is also a pair of non B&O speakers, this guy must deal second hand hi-fi!

 

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Hi Christian, Thanks for stoping by!

Yes, half an hour is enough to ruin all your holidays benefit!

To answer your post:

The BS9000 is regularly cleaned and the sensors can’t be (as far as I believe) incriminated.

The front panel is working fine at first startup.

When the IR operation is back, it IS back as normal.

The problem is really a delay between a cold start (after likely a week off) and the return of IR operation.

I, ignorantly, was expecting something like “you have a weak inside battery that hold settings and can’t remember you’re in A.Option 1 until it gets a little more juice in.” or similar, because I’m not aware of any capacitor that would need half an hour to charge.

But more seriously, I’d like to know if it is a symptom of a bigger fail to come or… it is just like that. And because I also have a Century wreck that as become my other IR challenge to fix, that I dont keep plug more than 10 minutes each time, I wonder if it could be a similar fault.

 

Thank you anyway for your interest.

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Beautiful!

Now be sure to check the rubber feet! 🙂

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Damn, I didn’t even think to look in the catalogs, stupid me.

Thank you Beozip!

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Hi and welcome to Beoworld.

First of all, replacing the woofer surrounds on the CX100 is not that difficult if you’re a little bit handy or careful. If you’re good with you’re current setup, that would be the better option. The process is very well documented all around the internet, cheap, and kits come ith all you need to do it right.

If you don’t want to do this I’d look at the second hand market for old or less older Beovox: CX range (but be sure to check the surrounds and listen to the speakers) or depending on your tastes, RL, Pentas… On some models same checks apply than for the CX.

Unless you like the look of them, I don’t find BL18 (that I love) will look nice next to a BC8000, less than 8000 if you really want columns. Using standalone systems like levels, Balance or similar is to me, a waste and as you said, not a really convenient solution unless you reaaly want to use the wireless connection as main source.

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Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

I’m also hoping to meet with the Classics team to find out more about the Beogram 4000c

Hi Steve, I would like to know how they feel on the recreated Beogram being named “4000c” when any fan/user of the brand obviously can see it is a 4002 basis. Is it a marketing choice  knowing it will “upset” any B&O lover (remember Dillen: “this is not a 4000!…”), but whatever… How do they feel from enthusiasts to enthusiast… Or is it a dark, not obvious but very relevant reason behind this weird choice.

Please ask.

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Hi mojofml,

mojofml wrote:

Looks like I can source the rubber and replace it without too much difficulty!

The rubber, “belt” if thats what you meaning as nothing to do with the symptoms you describe. If the CD load/unload but dont spin it’s more likely a faulty laser eye. Plenty of information about this on the old forum (search for “laser faulty” or similar since it something relvant for many beosound systems from ouverture to 9000).

I’m guessing the rubber had dried up or something and it started to fall off. Is this self-repairable, or what can I do for this? hoping for some good news, thanks!

Another common issue with beolabs 6000, the rubber surround falling appart. It’s a common repair for whoever has those speakers. Can be by yourself but depending on your skills, it can range from easy to nightmare. I consider myself as a handy and caring person but replacing surrounds on 6000’s woofer was not a sweet experience. Nevertheless, plenty of tutorials around, quite cheap repair and all in all, easy.

Good luck.

 

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Hi.

I’m not sure to understand your issue well. But if it is something like “the solenoid makes a scratching noise when activated”, I think it’s a common failure for those decks to have the core of the solenoid, twisted and then seized into the coils. I remember something like that.

Google Beogram 5500 repair, and you should find more info on this.

SOrry if this is not related to your problem.

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Die_Bogener wrote:

I’m back. We can make a simple step by step description how to modify the preamp. Big pictures do not work here… the upload of the circuit plan does not work… Martin

Hi Die Bogener and thank you for coming back and making it again!

Pictures never have been easier to insert compared to the previous forum. I’m not aware of size limitation and I always reduce the pictures I post to around 1000px on the largest border. If you have difficulties posting pictures and because I beleive they can really help in that specific topic, please reach any moderator or report the issue in the dedicated topic.

Thank you again.

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Stereomensch wrote:

@Die Bogener: Was läuft denn über den Pre-Amp?

Being in the general section of the forum and the original question being in english, could you please keep it that way for the understanding of alls? Thank you.

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Guy wrote:

my B&O collection is currently in these boxes…

Looking forward plenty of “unboxing” vids!       🙂

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On the move with yougtimers – Beoplay A3 & iPad 1.

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Yes, I think I’ve seen those kits on ebay some time ago.
They came after a search for wooden frets for 8000’s – same kind of mod to me :BL18 look alike.

If I recall well they were available for BL6000 too.

As Millemissen, I wonder how they can actually “upgrade” the 8000’s sound, but as lot of people as them for the style only part of me can understand.

I aslo find 8000’s with wooden grills but without ALT looks weird and unbalanced: that may be an answer for this, without altering the sound of 8000 by ot moving the actual tweeter.

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Robert_A wrote:

amazing that you saw that!

Yes, I’m good at this.

By the way what is that funny television set? 😀

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EgonOlsen wrote:

Depeche Mode, live Spirits Soundtrack cd

Man, did you ever heard about autopositioning? You can be banned from Beoworld for that. Please take care in the future and respect all beoworld readers!

😉

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Robert_A wrote:

Nor a fake wall. It’s a 122 year old wall that I opened and closed again for the cabels. Here you have pictures:

Is that wall, Farrow& Ball N°298 “Bancha”?

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moxxey wrote:

Interesting thing is, what would be the speakers we’d choose to flank the Theatre as the smallest/cheapest are now the BL18’s!

Two churches:

One will rush in the nearby dealer an buy 18’s or 28’s or maybe biggest…

The other will carefully follow second hand market for the usual suspects (4000’s, 6000’s, 8000’s and… 17’s, 18’s)

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Thank you Steve,

Perfect comprehensive answer.

Regards, M.

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Hi Millemissen,

When you quote someone’s post you may want to unclic the “Block quote” button in the toolbar after a carriage return to have your message displayed as a plain message.

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