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64bit_Dophins posted:As I've mentioned earlier in this thread a few of these old B&O turntables are in the MOMA so they're literally art. This is my sixth B&O turntable on my sixth B&O vintage system. It's the first one I've had that can be controlled with the remote control, which is pretty amazing compared to having to lift up and put down the tonearm or having to push buttons on other players! I have a TX2 turntable too, which I'll put up for sale. The tonearm, mechanism and platter is all suspended together as a unit inside the chassis, so if any vibration hits they will all move together, and not relative to each other. It's very ingenious! I lucked out and got an MMC4 cartridge in great shape on this one. The cartridges are just getting rarer and rarer, cost a shitton of money and some can be refurbished at a high cost, but not all. I bought two broken turntables to salvage the cartridges from them, so I have a spare MMC5 I can sell you if you want it. Won't be cheap though!
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Well the spare cart sold, together with my TX2 turntable and the Beosystem 2500 you can see in my pics above. They're split from other lots I bought earlier, so exact profit is hard to tell, but I now have €650 of fresh cash to spend on more fun stuff credit card My Beosystem 7000 doesn't have an RIAA, so I've asked a vintage B&O specialist in the UK to make me a custom wiring harness that maintains the datalink between the receiver and the turntable, while breaking out the audio signal to phono plugs so I can run it through a preamp.
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Aug 14, 2016 13:50
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Put a Sanyo turntable I fixed up up for sale online, lady drives 1h15min to pick it up, goes home without when it turns out to be indeed a turntable and not a complete stereo with speakers she can use to play records.
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Aug 19, 2016 21:14
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I picked up a classic at the fleamarket today. It works fine and is in good cosmetic condition, but it does need a good cleaning and lots of TLC to be perfect, so I'm flipping it. Also got the matching TL2520 speakers, and discovered the bass foam rings were just disintegrated into dust. For fun (and of course profit) I picked up this, which still sells for silly money to people who wants them on boats, gyms, construction sites etc.  A dude gave away a Harman Kardon DVD 1 for free, and I was there! It didn't play discs, but I opened it, pulled the mechanical bits back and forth, and now it works just fine! It does RGB Scart and makes my old DVDs look spectacular on my CRT TV.  I got a Marantz CD-72 MkII for $20. It has the Philips CDM4 tray mechanism, which was used on a whole bunch of CD players and fails on 100% of these. A new cog and belt is $10 on eBay, and turns a $20 CD player into a $200 CD player.  And finally, I sold two of these earlier, but got another one for just so cheap that I couldn't not buy it. 
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Aug 20, 2016 21:12
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MullardEL34 posted:B&O Beograms are so loving cool. It's just a shame that the cartridge options for most of them are so slim. Do what I do, and buy broken B&O turntables just for the cartridges, and sell them on to the next sucker looking for broken turntables just for the cartridges.
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Aug 22, 2016 11:33
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AT-95E all day long!
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Sep 3, 2016 20:16
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Got possibly my biggest cleanup project so far for $20 at a flea market together with a box of tapes. The motors spin, but everything inside is dirty, dusty and clogged up, so the solenoid can't bring the read head to the tape under its own power. New belts and new bulbs are incoming, and soon those VU meters will light up again!
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The wife is out, so I spent five hours repairing my Beocord 7000 tape deck! Holy loving poo poo I am so glad I am never doing that again! Hundreds of microscopic mechanical parts and springs without any logic that I pulled apart and put back together again and again without understanding it until it suddenly just worked. I CAREFULLY put everything back together, and now I'm listening to Norwegian covers of American golden oldies on tape.
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Sep 12, 2016 20:24
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I do the same, and I post most of the stuff here in the thread. That Marantz CD player I bought for $20 needed a $10 cog, and sold this weekend for $200. I do B&O stuff too, but it's been pretty simple jobs, mostly cosmetic. I did the wires for the sliding glass doors on one of the standing CD players, and that was one hell of a bitch too! I've started taking that Tandberg tape deck apart too now in preparation of cleaning and service, and the inside is as much a work of art as the outside of a B&O product is! Everything is made of metal, solid as poo poo, and laid out beautifully and logically.
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Sep 12, 2016 21:03
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sacre posted:I'd love it if you could take some pictures of the insides of the Tandberg I have new belts and bulbs on order, hopefully they'll be here next week and I can start working on it. I'll try to document it. It won't be a full electronics overhaul, just cleaning the mechanism and getting it going again. Right now it tries to start playing, but because the old grease has solidified, it stops right away. In other new, my Beocord repair lasted pretty much exactly one day. I'll take it apart again and fix it up when I'm less pissed off at it.
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Sep 14, 2016 11:33
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More flea market pickups! $5 got me a beat up noname SL1210-clone with a working AT-95E. I spent an hour cleaning it, and it sounds great! Notice my improvised repair on the tonearm weight. Yes, those are toothpicks!  $10 got me a Tandberg TA300M that should match nicely with my tape deck. 
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Sep 17, 2016 20:11
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evobatman posted:
See that program/mic slider? gently caress that thing right in the rear end! I cut the cables on it and connected the preamp directly to the amplifier, and now it sounds beautiful, with sound in both channels!
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wolfbiker posted:i picked these up at a yard sale for $40. the technics sl-23 and pioneer pl-112d need belts. the technics has no needle so i'll have to find one for that. the sansui fr-d4 works but the computer function moves the arm in a somewhat jerky manner (not sure if that's just how it is or something needs to be lubed) and for some reason when i push start, it moves the needle to almost the end of the record rather than the beginning. That's a drat good find for $40! They all have interchangeable headshells, so buy one AT-95E cartridge, put it on a headshell and try it on all three of them. Keep the table that you like the best. Buy a fresh belt for it from eBay, and sell off the other two tables. When the arm moves all the way across the record, it means the stylus is dead. You can of course also put fresh AT-95Es and belts on the other two too depending on your chances to sell them in your local market. I've sold a ton of garage sale turntables with new belts and carts and made some nice pocket change from them.
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Sep 23, 2016 21:07
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Hang on to your Gamecube, since Gamecube stuff is going up in price even though the Wii does better everything the Gamecube does except the Gameboy player. I guess that makes the Gamecube fit well as an audiophile system! Doing stuff with B&O remotes seems more like spellcasting than controlling electronics. I have a Beolink 1000 and Beo 4, and somehow I seem to have to use both of them for whatever I want to achieve. You just hit a series of seemingly unrelated buttons, and suddenly your stereo or TV has changed a function without any form of feedback on whether you got it right or wrong. I know I promised pics of the Tandberg tapedeck earlier, but screw that! I spent three-four evenings taking it apart and putting it back together again before I ended up with two ruined tapes and discovered it had a broken motor. I sold it on for pretty much what I had put into it. An Arcam CD player sold for $125  A Sansui TU-5500 tuner sold for $50  Both were picked up at the flea markets for a total price of $6. I also picked up a Sansui R-5 receiver with tapedeck in need of a new belt for $12 and have it listed for $50, since it's just 2*25 watts. It's very pretty with all the lights!  Also, I've put an Ortofon OM5E cartridge on my fake SL-1210 and I bought Random Access Memories on 180g vinyl since I wanted to hear what a brand new record sounds like. It sounds pretty good! I also found that the soundtrack from Tron Legacy, especially track 12, is great for testing my stereo.
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Oct 2, 2016 20:23
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It's funny to look at my own post history in this thread and see me go from "What is a so-called 'CD player'?" to being a mogul of used electronics. That Sansui receiver sold overnight, I probably underpriced it, but it's cheap 80s stuff anyway.
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Oct 3, 2016 07:49
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 Come on online seller, don't fail me now! I have no idea how to pick them up or where I'll put them in my apartment, but they are for sale for half of what they usually go for! There will probably be 200 people in line before me to get them 
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Oct 10, 2016 11:24
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Shiiiiiit if I can manage to land this deal I'll never want anything ever again! Until the next thing. One of them needs a new power lead apparently. I've told the seller I want them, and he's looking into freight options. If he can't find anything I'll do the 3 hour drive and ferry each way to pick them up. Also, I routed the sound from my Beosystem 7000 through the speakers on my MX7000. It's pretty amazing that speakers like that were built into a TV, they sound amazing! (But nothing like what my apartment will hopefully sound like this weekend)
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evobatman posted:Shiiiiiit if I can manage to land this deal I'll never want anything ever again! Until the next thing. And the seller sold it to someone who came knocking at his door with $100 more than I had offered Considering some white refoamed CX100s that are actually in my city as a consolation prize. They should match my white system nicely
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Oct 12, 2016 11:48
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I picked them up, and they're heavy as poo poo! The cones have been refoamed, but I have to clean the cabinets and fabric before they are photo ready. Thank gently caress I ordered female DIN plugs a while ago too, otherwise it would be pretty long before I could listen to them.
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Report from another weekend in stereo hell I cleaned up my Beovox CX100s with lots and lots of magic erasers, and cleaned the grilles with laundry soap. So many of the clips are broken! Thankfully it seems like the previous owner did a good job refoaming them, so they sound better than they look!  Also in the picture, my $60 perfectly mint Beosound Ouverture (yes I know the doors aren't going to open like that), and a Beomaster 3000-2 I picked up today for $15. I can't get sound from any of the speaker plugs, but the headphone contact sounds good. It also has transformer hum that rivals my wifes magic wand, so I'll sell it or donate it on, since whatever is wrong with it goes above my head. This is my life 
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Oct 16, 2016 20:28
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On the left in the last pic is this. Brand loving new, never touched by human hands except to take the picture: 
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Oct 17, 2016 20:34
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I'm searching my rear end off for one of those reel tapes that's in the player on the packaging, but they all seem to go for ridiculous money. I don't even want to play it, I just want it as a display piece.
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Warning: These next few pics might be NSFW, and you might need to explain that wet spot in your seat to someone.    Tandberg collectors are the craziest bunch.
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Oct 22, 2016 18:39
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I've found a $10 antistatic slipmat to be a pretty nice thing. I don't know if it does anything for sound, but it's nice not to feel sparkling static all over when switching records.
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I won these on US eBay, and are getting my inlaws to ship them over here: Vintage Tandberg speakers, and unfortunately not for keeping. Collectors here in Norway are crazy for them, so they are an investment to fund christmas presents and my vintage stereo mental illness.
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I got the speakers from the Death Star. Collectors love these, so they are getting sold on to finance christmas presents.
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I've been looking for a cheap reel cassette forever, and finally got one for $1 at a flea market this weekend. It has some Norwegian country on it, but that doesn't matter, its job is to do spinning poo poo and look cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8FwmHKSviE
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Well be happy you're not dealing with this Beocord 7000. This video is pretty much the longest I've gotten it to work continuously before breaking down. All belts are replaced, so there pretty much isn't anything to do except to replace either the transport or the whole player. The tape gets to sit behind the glass doors in my Ouverture, so I can look at it all the time. New B&O gear is pretty dull, with the Beocenter 2 the newest thing I would like to own. After that it's all media streamers that are interchangeable with any Sonos gadget and will be outdated and unsupported in a few years. Their TVs are nice, but so is any LG or Samsung using the same panel. However I do want the new Beovision Horizon, with THAT stand!
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Yep, the wheelstand! I love it! And now: BOOM, BITCHES!  Beolab Penta Mk1s that I got FOR FREE! They are pretty scratched and scuffed, and one amp is dead, but I will convert them to Beovox, the 7000 system should have plenty of power to run them.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:To continue the B&O chat- I picked up a pair of Beoplay H2s on sale last week to use at work and I'm very pleased with them. Yeah, I paid $100 for my pair from some place that was dumping their stock, and for that price I love them. I would not pay $200 for them, they feel too flimsy for that pricepoint even if the drivers are great. I see the H6s get great reviews, but I wonder how they would stack up against Sony MDR-1As which are really cheap here, VERY musical sounding and get great reviews. But we do have a thread for headphone chat.
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It was an independent store that sells mostly pro gear, so the H2s probably didn't fit their business profile. I have DT770s and access to my wifes MDR-1A, but I needed the H2s this summer for riding the bus to work, since the other two aren't very commute friendly. Back in vintage stereo land, I pulled the amps off of the Pentas after many many trips to the hardware store to find the correct screws to reattach the bottom, so I now have glorious stereo from them, and they are a little better proportioned. It's too late to push them tonight, but I'll try giving them some stick this weekend. Sounds like the Beomaster 7000 is a good match. Not sure what to do with the amps yet, maybe I'll fix them up or maybe I'll just dump them. There are limits to how much money I want to put into what's basically someone elses junk that I pick up just for fun.
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I love my Pentas so much, even though they are old, beaten up and probably need a refoaming! I also picked up and resold some incredibly nice vintage Pioneer CS-565 speakers. That frequency curve doesn't lie, even with that huge bass element, bass was almost nonexistant in them.  
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I finally sold those Tandberg Fasetts. Barely broke even on them. I've got to tell myself to stop dealing in Tandberg gear, because even if it goes for a lot of money, all of it has 40 years of wear, tear, dirt and questionable repairs that has to be dealt with before it can be sold on for anything other than parts. Those Pioneer speakers were visually beautiful with dark palisander wood in amazing shape, even if it was just veneer over particle board. Have I mentioned that I love my Pentas? I'm not sure what to do now that I've reached peak Bang & Olufsen, but I've been eyeing more and more NAD and Marantz gear and coupling it with Bowers & Wilkins DM603 or DM604 speakers, which seem to be plentiful around here. I also want Yamaha NS-555 or 777 speakers, with 444 and 333 surrounds for my home theatre.
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Nah, all my stuff in this thread I've gotten by being in the right place at the right time, having patience, driving around to thrift stores and flea markets and being ready to jump on deals, repairing broken stuff myself and reselling etc. All the B&O stuff I have now I've bought with money made from earlier deals or by buying lots and selling off enough to cover my cost and keeping what's left, so besides the time I've spent on it it's free stuff. Basically it's a self-financing and somewhat profitable hobby I got into by accident that helps deal with the costs of vacations, car repairs etc, and the hobby aspect of it gets me off my rear end and keeps dogs from barking in my head. BeoLab 1/2 and NS1000s cost real money and have real value, but are also old enough to need expensive repairs. My gear that I have now I could just dump in the trash without feeling that I had lost anything financially significant, and then start rebuilding a new collection. Edit: I hope that didn't come off as too pessimistic, I do this also because I love getting and playing with nice stuff for cheap, driving around and seeing all kinds of stuff at thrift stores and fleamarkets, dealing with the people, getting money and loving bitches! evobatman fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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We had in-house electronics recycling at my last real job, I pulled so many thousands of dollars of stuff out of there I should probably put it in my tax returns! No good speakers though, but my Beogram 5500 with MMC4, a whole bunch of laptops, Windows keys from broken PCs. DDR2 RAM is only worth $3-4 per stick, but when you have 80-100 sticks you start noticing it! I know of several outdoors recycling centers here that I can just drive up to at night, but I haven't quite gotten to the point where I'm dumpster diving. Yet.
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$35 got me a Sony X303ES CD player! Unfortunately no remote, but the guy said he would look for it. Just the remotes by themselves are like $150 on eBay. Also, no wood sides, I need to find them to class it up!
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I know, that's why I repeated three times that I tried looking for remotes online but they were nowhere to be found, and I would be REALLY thankful if he found it for me. I don't care if he interprets that as an offer to get his dick sucked as long as it slightly plants the idea in his head that he actually should look for it.
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Won't any Craigslist hobby woodworker fix that up for $20 and a sixpack?
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In fear of seeing this thread slip to page 2 on the forums, I did a late Friday night run to pick up a bunch of stuff that a guy was just giving away for free. After sorting through it, this was what I was left with: The Sony CD changer is pretty special since you can change the CDs in the carousel while still having another CD playing. Otherwise that and its single disc brother are competent but unremarkable. The remote I got with the CD changer works on both the single disc player and my Sony ES CD player, which was a pleasant surprise. The Technics CD player sounds VERY nice to listen to, absolutely the best performer in this bunch. The tape deck works pretty well and sounds as good as any other tape deck, but will need several rounds of cleaning on its heads before it's up to its full potential.
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