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Hi,

Here and here

I believe (but I don’t know for sure) that MK2 with traditional dustcap woofer sounds better.

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MW05 wrote:

I have a second defect Ouverture (Tape and CD broken),

Hi And Apologies for the English language.

Tape and Cd broker may be both an easy fix: belt for the cassette and deep cleaning for the CD. Those units appears to be very reliable…

Just in case…

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Mark-sf wrote:

A relay’s contacts can corrode over the decades especially when not hermetically sealed. This introduces a variable resistance which causes the speed variation. One can affect a temporary fix by carefully cleaning the contacts since the cover is removable; however, this is only a temporary fix and its very easy to bend the thin contact supports making it worse.

Hi Mark and everybody,

I’m feed up with all those album reissue at 45 rpm but when I found one I really wanted, I thought I must have something done about my 45′ speed problem.

Still not brave enough to replace the relay I decide to clean it with a strip of paper soaked in electric contact cleaner like Dillen taught us all.

Speed problem solved for now! Thank you everybody and especially Mark and Martin.

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Martin, what is “Chartol”, please?

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I got my copy yesterday: it’s more orange than the vivd red I thought it gonna be and the sleeve more matt than YannChris one.

Anyway, it did go into a plastic sleeve protector that does not allow to open the gatefold.

So I compiled the instructions notes into this mini guide. If anybody is interested you just need to print it recto-verso on a plain sheet of paper (A4, but letter should do) and fold it.

Hope this helps…

 

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Here are some other brochure Gary shared and the missing one in the lineup, the one on Beovox Loudspeakers.

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And the general brochure…

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Here they are…

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Hi, hello and thank you…. 😉

You need a proof of ownership (other than just showing the actual device) and and friendly B&O dealer. As far as I know, other that that it’s now a brick.

You’re welcome.

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Dillen wrote:

1974/75 is correct. Martin

Martin, do you know something about this yellow label transparent record on the Beogram brochure?

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Hi alls,

As Martin said, I drilled holes through the breaks (1mm), slipped sewing needles soaked in cyano glue and let it rest overnight, then cut the needles.

Sad the deck is useless, but at least it makes me practices things like that.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Gary and welcome to Beoworld,

As a fan of anything in paper B&O branded and especially brochures, I’m happy to be the first to answer to your post.

Thank you very much for your contribution. Thoses brochure are, at least for me, unseen until now and very special since they do feature a lot of items I own and love.

In the next days, if you dont object I will work on your PDFs to cut them to size.

Thank you again, for me, this is christmas before the day of it.

All the best.

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Hi Leo, good to see you back,

Got the same issue on MK1: one of the woofer make a slight scratching noise, not always, not strong but sometimes, and noticeable when you know it’s there.

I have inspected the driver and it has no visible sign of wear, specially on the surround.
I noticed that when I very carefully and lightly touch the surround speaker at 7 o clock the rattling stops. Then for me the cure was to attach a little soft foam piece there. No noise since then.

I’ve recentererd a magnet on 4 P50 drivers that were obviously stuck. I don’t feel like doing the same with an 8000 driver. And changing it implies readjusting the whole speaker if I understand correctly, so not viable to me too.

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Thank you Martin.

I will report here when done.

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Has it ever lift before or is it a new fault?

I’ve one of those that don’t lift. Under the table there is a little “piston” that push the plastic disc where the arm rest (through the little screw). The piston is stuck and the whole thing dont move anymore. Maybe you ca start from here.

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Also, what do you mean by “quite damage”?

Unless it is knocked on an edge, I believe Beolab 4000 grills are the easiest to reclothe.
And even if…

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A very sympathetic guy on discogs was selling this record with the accompanying letter.
I asked him if he would agree to send me a shot and very generously, he did!

Unfortunately that was not “the” letter, it was one about Beovox Uniphase.
Not the one I saw on Internet. But it still a funny think and I want to thank that guy again.

I keep googling to find it…

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See there

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Hi,

First you need to check you have a FULL ambio box: most of the ones I’ve seen are often missing the speakers plugs and have bare wires. Then

You have male/female plugs. you plug this into your amp speaker out and plug in the female part the main speakers. Given the electronics re not to aged and would need a refresh, this how it works:

You have the speaker outs from the box where you plug the “ambio” speakers that should be placed on the sides (not behind). Refer to an ambio Beomaster owner’s guide like the 1001 for details on the ambio effect. It’s not a an obvious effect and, as far as I’ve experienced it, very depending on the source music.

The difference between the ambio and the ambio filtered (the one with the waves) was never obvious to me but I’m not good at audio subtleties.

Hope this helps.

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pepps wrote:

I tried the old classic ‘plug in and unplug repeatedly’ a headphone connector in the little headphone socket.

Great, congratulations,

Maybe (but would be good to wait for the approval of somebody that knows about that…) you could unplug the whole unit and spray contact cleaner into the jack?

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