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Congratulations to all the lucky winners!

I’m already looking forward to seeing a bumper crop of photos, videos and typed up stories for the rest of us to enjoy after you all return 🥳

Oh and here’s a challenge for you all when you’re at the Struer museum – try to find out why only one of the BL9000 panel speakers works in the ‘sound effects studio’ interactive room.
And maybe work together with the museum to repair it 👍👍

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That’s brilliant! Thanks for sharing – it’d be cool (personally) if there was one showing the slightly newer products like 3500 and 2500 systems 😍

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Hi Soren, great to hear you want to have your Pentas serviced, they’re glorious speakers and will love a freshen-up.

Have you considered hiring a van and taking them to Leeds yourself?

Personally I consider my Pentas like my children and there’s no way I’d use a courier! Once those panels are dented they’re spoiled forever.

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Hi Filip, it may be worth popping the turntable carefully into service position and closely studying the solder joints from the front panel back to the power supply. Re-solder any dodgy-looking joints if there are any.

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kirin wrote:

pepps wrote:

While browsing the forum I noticed there hasn’t been a 2025 post on the ,flash your B&O – so I jumped to it with a quick snap of my living room. Imo the best pairing of front and rear speakers from the older models. They look fabulous together but are incredibly well matched tonally.

Hi pepps, I like this collection of great, now even vintage B&O products, looks really fabulous! So, is the Beomaster 6500 driving the Beovoxes on the wall during Beo7 decoding 5.1 surround sound? BTW: Thanks for reactivation of that thread 🙂

Hi @kirin

Thanks 👍 The Beovoxes are pretending to be Beolab 4000. They’re connected to a MCL2P which in turn connects by Powerlink to the BV7.

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T.W.G wrote:

My wife knows my incurable infection with the Beovirus. The original Bang & Olufsen shelf comes without lights.

That is glorious! Lovely and clean and a perfect way to neatly display your favourite smaller items 👍

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Hi Kallasr, the Neo product sounds cool with stand integration. Not a lot of info out yet, but it’ll be interesting to see how they integrate with B&O music systems too.

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Jakes, great find with the Almando people. It certainly looks to cover off your main concerns. Mine too, I noticed there’s a setting to send data (for displays I assume) to Penta speakers which is cool.
Also to be able to connect my BS6500 too is fantastic!

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While browsing the forum I noticed there hasn’t been a 2025 post on the ,flash your B&O – so I jumped to it with a quick snap of my living room.

Imo the best pairing of front and rear speakers from the older models. They look fabulous together but are incredibly well matched tonally.

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Hi Jakes, I’m watching this thread because soon I fear my BV-7 will fall ill and need replacing perhaps with something more modern.

 

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Is it possible you may have bought a model previously used in a hotel room?

Have you tried contacting B&O customer services with the serial number? Might help.

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Hi, here’s further reference to the headphone socket and it’s relation to powerlink.

https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beosystem-2500-powerlink-failure/#post-40885

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Thank you for letting us know. Rest in peace Viggo.

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Superb!

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Congratulations to all the 2024 winners and a happy new year to all Beoworlders around the world 😎😍

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Hello Glen,

A lovely gesture. I would recommend a pair of Beovox 3000 type 6716 flat panel.

These look very modern, sound good and hang from the wall.

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Hi Guy,

A very good read. I too have followed Mark’s Youtube channel – fascinating bloke and enormously talented. I do love it when he decides to engineer a replacement part, as well as the electronics side.

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Interesting. Well as long as we all make the necessary adjustments to our contacts it shouldn’t hinder the sales and excellence offered by Beoparts, ahem! sorry, I mean Danish Sound Parts.
I love how you referenced ‘our’ Martin. The man himself guided me through lots of repairs and good use tips over the years. He is indeed our own treasure (among a lot of you good ol’ Beopeople from this site).

Nice bit of news there Beobuddy!

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Update:

Well well what a fun little journey that was 😀
I am now the exceedingly happy owner of a fully working and stunning Beogram 6500!

So as @Dillen suggested I found a replacement transformer from a well known auction website for sixty five pounds.
It came supplied with a fused circuit board (with the large capacitor) but had different traces to the one on my Beogram so I just soldered the new transformer to the original board and fitted it.

When power was added the Beogram was alive. It wouldn’t track though. This baffled me for ages – until I decided to open up my Beogram 3500 to use as a reference. After checking the two I noticed the wires for the lamp were connected to the two pins for the motor, and vice-versa. I changed them over and presto the deck operated as normal.

Next up I had to raise the platter to the correct height. Then the arm followed by the tonearm. Finally I adjusted the drop point because the stylus was slipping off the record at the start. (Worst nightmare)

The tracking weight was set at over 1.5 so I pulled that back to just on 1.

Big moment. Connected the Beogram up to the BM and sat for the next couple of hours enjoying some of my favourite LPs 😎

As always, I couldn’t have done this without the years of knowledge, resources and friendly people on this site to give me the confidence to try.

(Two photos – the ‘how lucky am I?’ using one Beogram to check against the other scenario. And the BG6500 up and running at last ❤️)

 

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I too have drawer issues with a Beocord 6500. Just thought I would add that on mine the drawer tyres have hardened and become elliptical – I guess from where the Beocord has sat in one position for a long time. This will no doubt have an effect on how hard the drawer motor has to work and how smooth the action will be.

I bought a replacement set of tyres from Beoparts (now: Danish Sound Parts) and shall fit them soon. The obligatory write-up will follow in due course.

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