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As I am also interested in a Contour;

Is screen burn-in still problem with these OLED tv’s? And what is the expected life of such a set? Also considering a second hand BV11…

 

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Half a year late to answer the question but here’s my advice for anyone wanting to clean a Beogram 1700:

The rectangular aluminium top plate can successfully be cleaned with a moist “Mr Magic” sponge. Will be like new. Don’t do this to the platter though! The platter has some kind of layering/ covering that can be easily damaged by enthusiastic cleaning. The (thin!) wood fineer can be cleaned with mild soap and after cleaning a treatment with bee wax or oil will restore colour and give the fineer its protection.

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chartz wrote:

Soundsmith, definitely AFAIC. That’s what I’ve been using for years.

Your recommendation sounds quite strict (“definitely”); do you have experience/compared with retipped Audio Origin styluses?

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I am about to receive a retipped MMC20s, which wil now be fitted with a nude shibata (on a aluminium cantilever) in Germany by “FJS-Tonabnehmerservice” / Franz-Josef Schulte, who learned this craft first hand from Axel Schurholz.

I will report when I have listened to it, but just to mention another possibility for retipping by a company with a lot of experience with B&O cartridges.

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A nice solution could have been to touch the “pauze” button twice for “stop”, but perhaps that was too complicated to design in those days.

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Dillen wrote:

it has the slimline tonearm with the round counterweight (read: easier adjustable tracking force)

Did this newer and lighter tonearm sound different than the previous rectangular arm? It looks less solid to me.

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Thank you for responding.

The Beogram 1700 appears not to have a “stop” control-button, like the 1900/1902; a strange omission in my view. Now you have to touch the tonearm to return it after pushing “pauze”.

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