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Yes I had a broken coil and managed to repair it.
To be honest the break was quite obvious but there is a chance that yours will be too.

And for every weak sight there is a loupe somewhere, just find yours!
(Actually very cheap Chinese led light loupe googles, they help a lot!)

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Hello and thank you would have been welcome when you ask for help.
That being said, there is no way to retrieve a missing pincode as far as I know.

Things you can try:
– if your device came with papers, look for a 4 figure number handwritten somewhere.
– If your friendly with a B&O dealer, talk with him to see if he agrees to help you.
– Talk with seller. It may be impossible but it should be more possible than guessing the right pincode out of the blue.

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Hi Pommeyard and welcome to Beoworld.

You are righ, seized woofer is a quite common issue wit some Beovox speakers.
The good news is that this is reparable: not easy but not that hard too.

Seized woofer doesn’t means the coils are broken for sure.
Lost for lost I would take out the woofers, check for continuity and do a search on this forum with something like “P50”. You should find a step by step repair guide with some quite very good pictures and perfectly phrased frenglish explanations.

Beside the fact that finding similar woofers could be difficult or need another pair of S45 that would then end in trash too (the donor problem…), reparing woofers is a very rewarding task, really.

Let us know…

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Ravsted wrote:

It is now done.

I’ve Ravsted, great work.
What happen when you put on a standard TV the contrast glass from the BV.
Does it change something? In good or comes with some trade-off?

Thanks.

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You need to zip the files before attaching them.

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thomash wrote:

Thank you to the people offering ideas in a pleasant way and no thank you to the people who are going out of their way to attack me.

Thomash,

I’ve been there too. Beoworld people can sometimes look or sound harsh. I’ve felt myself excluded from a closed circle of “knowing people”. But what I learned is that sometimes when, as you did through your experiments, look able to sort it out by yourself, members won’t interfere. They let you dig and dig and dig again and find out until you’re really stuck and then they show up with respect and good willing.

Long time since I’ve seen a post from Dillen more than one line. He told you “You have already achieved more than most owners could/would.”. Trust me, its a golden badge.

Purpose of Beoworld (as I see it) is not to repair your stuff for you. It is to teach you how to repair any stuff. Sometimes it hurts, yes. But in the end its really rewarding.

Your Deck is a gem, everybody told you that. Get it up and working!

See this as an “bizutage” in French.

Welcome to Beoworld.

 

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It would be interesting to investigate that RJ45 socket inside the A3 and see how/what for it could be hijacked.

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Tim wrote:

Powerful to me meant that…

Thank you Tim. All this make sense now.

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Yes pictures are available luckily.

The laser cleaning must be deep cleaning, meaning involving a full disassembly.

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Cd clamper belt. Easy to diagnose, just remove the back.

Laser eye to be cleaned/replaced. Common fault.

Tape belt, common fault again. Full tutorial on the old forum, unfortunately with pictures missing. 2 hours work and quite an adventure but pretty sure that’s the fault (three Ouvertures, three time the problem).

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When the Tim question will be completely answered could someone elaborate on this:

Tim wrote:

The BeoSound Stage is not powerful enough for music.

I mean at what level has someone to listen music for the stage not to be powerful enough?
And is/are Beosound Balance that much more powerful than a Stage?

Thanks.

 

[matador]

Ólafur Arnalds – Live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle…

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hippofan wrote:

Thank you both. I will have a go at opening it next weekend. Do you know a good source for replacement foam? The ones I have found so far are pretty pricey. I am UK based.

For once, the best source is B&O. The original Foam replacement are like 10€ the set per speaker. I believe UK dealers are more flexible but if I’m wrong and they are like ours here in France, you may have to fight a little to have them order the parts. But parts are available and it don’t worth the hassle to try DIY or anything alike.

https://beoworld.dev.idslogic.net/forums/topic/beolab-8000-preventive-care/

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Paypal… Pros and Cons…

Sometimes it works at it should: safe payment, peace of mind, safety.
Sometimes it don’t. With times, people who want to fraud, fraud! They have understood that all you need to win the case is a return tracking number even if they actually returned whatever crap in the box.

I dot wanna even elaborate on what I don’t know but, would it be possible that the algorithms were something like “refund little money to keep the safety feeling, don’t refund big money because it’s not interesting financially speaking”? I don’t know.

There is countless stories o PayPal here on BW. I remember our valuable member Dillen having a lot of troubles with PayPal because of bad buyers that caused him to not use PayPal anymore. In the other hand, as a buyer, I feel safe to use PayPal because the possibility of a case just exists and it doesn’t with any other paying method. And this, even if the confusion may not be in my favor.

I “subscribe” to paypal, long ago, just because I did not want to give my credit card number to eBay. Since then, PayPal has refund me a lot of non delivered items. and even if today, undelivered eBay items find arrangement with the seller directly (because they don’t want a bad review) the original reason is still there.

So in a nutshell: When you’re a seller you may don’t like PayPal because if the buyer is a gangster you know he has ways of legally hustling you.

When you’re a buyer you may don’t like PayPal because you know sellers have ways to dismiss PayPal cases even if they are gansters.

But all in all, PayPal is what it is and, to me, still better than direct CC number.

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Thank you Xavier, that’s perfect and surely will help a lot in the future.

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Hi Xavier,

Very nice work, the kind I like! Thank you for sharing the detailed process.

because you seems to know a lot about, would it be possible you make for us a little pensum explaining what iPad wit what OS would work with pros and cons ( even theoretically). I know it could be a lot of work but I’m sure it could help people make the right decision when buying second hand iPads.
thank you.

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OlivierC wrote:

@Matador, everyone loves your Beocenter 72-97!

Thank you Olivier !

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Honestly, how many of us, of you, would buy a brand new Beogram inbox, with full warranty ans panels stickers?

I mean aren’t we praising those beogram, appart that they’re beautiful, because we save them from a certain death, because we like to repair them, adjust them, fight with them to bring them to work?

If you, like me think the same, who cares they sell very expensive ones to whealthy people?
If in the end a refurbished, painted like a stolen car 2020 beogram 4002 value increases, where will be the value of my trully original 1972 BG? A fraction of it maybe but still something. And even then, would I depart from it?

Anyway, two things, two audiences.

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Mr10Percent wrote:

The anodising of the alu-parts is in this colour-combo is bordering on vulgar.

I Agree…

Mr10Percent wrote:

I think there is something very wrong with a brand – particularly luxury brands when they keep re-hashing merchandise…

Again, I agree…

Mr10Percent wrote:

Omega Speedmasters etc…

I can’t agree more (only smart move was the MoonSwatch)…

Appart from this, I must say I don’t really care. That kind of things, relayed by fancy magazines and instagram post make just raise our Beogram 4002 value (happy when you own it, less when your look for one, but, hey…).

Now, whoever want a beosystem like that one but with more peaceful or classic color palette can make it’s own, to his tastes, with the money he has : from my poor Beocenter 72-97, to an old but B&O refurbished BG4002 paired with any Beolab speaker and any high-end RIAA pre-amp. Thank you B&O for giving us the idea of that setup.

That said, the real shame of it is the color… Awfull.

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Zut, not a good news, I used to believe the deep cleaning was a forever cure.

I remember it was a thread on the old forum about, I don’t know, reflowing some connections or maybe replacing one or to capacitors, in a nutshell another path out from the usual “just replace the lens”.

I WANT to believe that lasers last forever and ore not just 5 years life long components.

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