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  • in reply to: BeoSound Century – Dead CD Drive #61735
    matador
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    When Laser problems, first always check in the technical datasheet that your’s is a genuine kyber crystal. Sometimes it may ruin your CD but it is well know to last long – Like 6 or 10 iterations plus spin-offs.

    More seriously, if your CD lens is one of the common ones – Meaning 20$ on the bay – don’t bother but be ready to try one or two before the right one comes. All details on BW II or there.

    And in any cases, try the “deep clean method” widely discussed in our colums.
    It does not work everytime but has a fair amount of success.

    Finally, in my experience, the weak link in a CD mechanism is the lens, so CD not spinning, no motor noise, etc… Is in most case due to laser fault.
    Someone did once explain me the full CD start sequence and it did make sense.

    Clean or change the lens.

    Good luck.

     

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 Option setting. #61577
    matador
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    Thank you to the Men In Black Boxes Team!

    I’d like to not add another box to the setup. It already has a Beolink passive that drives Beovox C-40 in the back from the Playmaker Powerlink out.

    The less bad option would have been using a Beo4 to command the 9000 and the Playmaker in Option 4, not the more convenient but at least just one remote.
    The problem is that I dont use Beo4, I use a Beolink 5000 I find nicer.

    Another solution would be a fine programming of a Beo6 but I keep that for later.

    Thanks again to you both.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 Option setting. #61550
    matador
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    When in A.Opt 4, does all command  need “Link” pressed before or do some commands like Volume and Mute work as usual?

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 Option setting. #61542
    matador
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    Well.

    Here is the setup:

    Playmaker. Receiving Airplay broadcast and BS9000 into Aux.in.

    Playmaker must be the main IR controlled device because my phone keeps corrupting airplay reception and also because autosense don’t work that well.

    But then A.Aux or any audio command like CD to select the line IN of the PM also select that source on the 9000 making impossible to select Line IN in the PM and CD on the 9000.

    So in short, I’d like to be able to select independently PM Line.IN, PM Airplay, BS Sources at least CD and AUX.*

    An Idea Somebody?

    Thanks in advance.

    *Because 75% of the time music is Airplay, I’d rather not to have the PM as a slave for the BS Implying that tha BS has to be on everytime.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 Option setting. #61541
    matador
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    Hi Guy.

    SW 2.0.

    A.Option setting to 4 does not work : 1,2 & 5 or 6 do work.

    I’ve always wonder how those kind of detail could be relavnt for anyone. Now I know!

    Thanks Guy.

     

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 IR repair, PCB 14. #61528
    matador
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    PCB14

    Hi alls,

    Just to confirm that the PCB14 in Beosound 9000 MK2 indeed looks like the picture above.

    After replacing both 22 microfarad SMD capacitors with regular ones, the IR board calme back to life.

    Thanks to everyone who helped.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beolab 18 – whats necessary for a B&O Newbie #61355
    matador
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    Congratulations,

    Every single new owner of a pair of Beolab 18 (the whole pair) should have a song in his name.

    I’d like to have a song in my name!

    Congrats again.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: DIY Beolab 8000 Wood frets (STLs included). #61113
    matador
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    Don’t know what you mean by “poorly fitted” but what pushed me to design this clamps was that the ones on the market have a bulgy look, too round, too thick, too ‘not elegant’. So I tried to reduce the arc of the grid as much as i can.

    In the first post you have have a top view and also the template for the cardboard top plate that should give you an idea of the whole render.

    Maybe it can answer your question.

    Cheers.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 appears to be dead #60571
    matador
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    Hi,

    A power failure of a Beosound 9000 is my worst nigthmare about this unit I pretend to know a little bit though.

    For anyone to help you better, what mark is the 9000: some do have a power switch and it may be the easier place to start.

    PS: to your other enquirie about the french branch, Yes it do exist but the main action is there in the internationals threads. Nowadays with the integrated traduction tolls it should be easier for anyone to follow. Tell this to your french mate. By the way, I’ve pushed a lot of french people to this forum about the Beolab 8000 clamps to make wooden frets. Maybe your friend is one of them?

     

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Browser based UI for B&O products #59955
    matador
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    How much I wish it was the same thing to remotely control or even just monitor iTunes from a mac to another…

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beogram 5005 – stylus pressure too high? #59894
    matador
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    More likely a “close to death” stylus…

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: How to give a logo to Beoplay Remote for Mac #59629
    matador
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    I like that kind of “attention to details”!

    If it may be of any help, here you have the round and rounded square versions of the logo: it may help make it blend a little more…

    (They look the same here because of the white background, but they are round and rounded square!)

     

    B&O RoundishB&O Round

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beosound 9000 Powerlink No sound #59600
    matador
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    Hi and welcome to Beoworld,

    Do you have sound from the headphone socket?

    Do you have sound from the radio?

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beolab 50 reactions… #59588
    matador
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    I think that the Beolab 50 is one of the best styled speakers that B&O has ever made.

    I think nothing can compete with the visual refinement of the Beolab 18 or in a different way, the non-speaker neo-retro-futuristic look of the Beolab 5.
    The Beolab 90 has for it the eye-catching, mind-wondering look but it cannot be called “beautiful” in my opinion.

    The Beolab 50 looks more like a Dyson X Brabantia air conditionner even if I would gladely welcome a pair in my living-room (thing I wouldn’t do with the 28)…

     

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Welcome #59395
    matador
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    Got it as regular email.

    Location: Paris France
    matador
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    That is why I try to avoid “as much as I can” to rely on a third party provider of any kind: sonner or later business deals and stock market arrangement may left you on the side of the road because of any promised compatibility that is no longer on the agenda of the company.

    Nothing more safe and efficient than a local storage full of files and Millemissen* as an algorythm to advice you on new content throught the “What are you listening right now” thread.

    *Friendly and respectfull joke.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: BeoLab 8000 woofer scratching noise: can it be solved? #59164
    matador
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    I don’t have a spotify account so I’m unable to provide any link.

    The first seconds of the first track of the album Re:member from Olafur Arnalds.

    Also the very first note from the track First light from the album First light from Jonsi.

    Both make the woofer vibrate.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: BeoLab 8000 woofer scratching noise: can it be solved? #59069
    matador
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    Hi Alls,

    I joined the discussion since I share the same issue than KolfMAKER. Maybe I’ve already talked about that somewhere but in a nutshell my solution was to stick à little piece of soft foam between the fret and the surround of the scratching speaker. It must be a sacrilege but since I never listen very loud it did work to me for a while.

    Now If there is any solution that do not involve tearing appart the woofer, I would be happy to hear it.

    Today I noticed something that may help maybe: I dont need heavy level to make it happend. It will be very noticeable at low level in piano parts, like in some pieces of Olafur Arnalds. It is more like a vibration like if something was flapping on the cone but I’m not very good a describing that kind of noise.

    Hope this helps.

     

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beo5/Beo6 battery #59016
    matador
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    Breaking News (like if my last post brought me bad luck)…

    The remote does’nt even last few hours nor even minutes. I used it today in Apple TV mode and after few clics both went dead.

    I suspect this being related to the aTV IR command but I dont know how to tell for sure.

    Location: Paris France
    in reply to: Beo5/Beo6 battery #59000
    matador
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    A little feedback on the CS batteries,

    They are still running fine but they discharge a lot faster than in the first weeks of use.
    To the point that I need to have two Beo6: one on the table the other on the charging dock. Average swapping is two days.

    I’ve also noticed that it never charge at full: on the Beo6 red battery indicator there is always one or two millimeters black even though the remote sits on its craddle for days.

    For the record all Beo6 are full of third party IR codes (Samsung & Apple) and all screens use full screen images.

    Nevertheless, those batteries are still the better option to date.

    Location: Paris France
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