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Hi there...
I was hoping someone here could offer some assistance to diagnose an issue with my beloved beosound 9000.
For the past few months when I select CD, the mechanism moves to the selected disc and then stalls without playing. It shows 'pause' on the display and the only way I can get it to work is to repeatedly select different discs until it eventually lifts one of them and plays. Once it decides to work, it works perfectly and I have cleaned the laser (with a ProLens cleaner disc) with no real success.
its obviously a very frustrating issue made worse by the fact that operating in a link room is pretty much impossible - I have to be in the room with the 9000 going through the process of making it work.
im hoping it's not the laser mech failing (as it plays without a problem once a disc has been lifted) and maybe it just needs a proper cleaning. I'm not convinced that the cleaning disc I'm using is good enough, but I'm not sure how to access the laser to clean it manually. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Most likely your BS9000 needs a new laser if cleaning doesn't help anymore. Which mk/type do you have?
Beobuddy.
Same problem as yours described here. Turned out to be condensation on the laser lens. Does letting it warm up first (use the radio) cure the problem?
It does sound like the laser. i had the exact same issue after 5 years of owning the BS9000. I replaced the laser and now works perfectly.
BV11-55, BS9000, BL1, BL19, Transmitter 1, Beo4, Beocom 6000, BeoTalk1 200, Sennheiser HD600, McIntosh MHA100
Many thanks for the replies on this, greatly appreciated. Following some research on the site, I cleaned the laser with a cotton bud - very hi-tech - which seems to have made a huge difference. I now think that the discs may be contributing to the problem. I copy a lot of music onto blanks from the computer to play on the 9000 and it may be struggling to read differing formats (mp4, mp3 etc). I'm far from being any kind of expert on this, but I think it could be a factor. My 9000 is a mk3 I think (serial no starting 17) so hopefully replacement lasers will be available for a while if I have to go down that road. On a side note, I've just added a 32" RF Avant to my set-up (replacing a beovision 1), still a brilliant TV, really enjoying it.
thanks again.
The BS9000 will only read standard Redbook CDs, no MP3 or MP4 or such. I've not had any problems with burned CDs but all of them have been standard CD format, no compressed files.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.