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Hey guys
I have a Beogram 6500 that I bought 2 years ago, I should have sent it back as soon as I received it as it was not as promised and supposedly had just been serviced. I suspected at the time I was being lied to but ignored my gut-feeling. Now I know.
Anyway, when I got it, it was fine then it start refusing to place certain CDs or would start stuttering while playing to a point that it was totally unlistenable. Finally last week, it started to refuse to play anything. If I put a CD in, I get the usual lights and the CD spinning noise then when it would usually start playing, it stops and I hear it spin up again then it powers down. Am I right in assuming this could be a dirty lens? Are there any guides on methods of cleaning it?
I am not the most techy person and have opened up my fair share of stuff but not my B&O bits and bobs.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
Well it could be if you are lucky - more likely to be the capacitor failing as documented in other threads. However cleaning the lens is easy so go for it. The top comes off the CD6500 easily - loosen and move the screws on the back of the unit as shown on the base and the top slides off. The lens is immediately obvious - clean with alcohol and a cotton bud.
Peter
Sounds to me like a capacitor issue as Peter mentioned. It has happened to my CD 5500 as well, but is a fairly simple fix.
Try searching the forums, it shouldn't be too difficult to find!
I opened up the CD and cleaned the lens with some IPA. It was extremely dusty in there but it is working again so I am happy.
MIke
I live in Hong Kong and I am thinking of buying a used Beosystem 6500/7000. I am concerned about the CD player since the laser head for CD 6500/7000 is no longer available at B&O service and so it won't be able to fix the CD player in case a new laser head is needed.
A new laser head is available from non-B&O vendors. Can any audio technician do the laser head replacement job?
Any tip for me when shopping for a Beosystem 6500/7000, especially concerning the CD player?
I am personally on my second Beogram 6500 number 2 and the only reason for change was based on color option.
The first one was from an Lauritz.com auction here in Denmark which was early 2009 and it was working fine along with the Beocord and Beo4 remote. The Beomaster is another story. I sold the complete Beosystem some 1-2 years later with the cd still working as it should and no extra service was needed for that one of the 5 units that system became. I got it with 3 and expanded to record player + another Beocord.
All I can really say is that at the time of writing this I have yet to find lazer faults in a CD6500 to be worried about it. In general if the problem is not really clear on Beoworld then its not on time for the unit to develop those kind of problems. The only lazer problems known is the Beosound 9000 to date as far as I have seen it.
My CDX was gone through in 2008 by Dillen and it still works great though we had left hinge problems that got it close to be scrapped for dead.
Usually there is something else wrong than the lazer. Anyway here is what Martin said about my CD6500 number 2:
Beogram CD6500;The final component in this white Beosystem would never open its drawer. It would only move inwards, never out,so playing CDs would have been difficult unless one had already been loaded.A repair was done to the damaged drawer switch and the laser lens was cleaned which brought back normal operation.Further work included new capacitors for the servo board, a good check for cracked solder joints - there's almostalways a good bunch of them - and a fresh drawer belt.
I am the second owner of this 4 unit Beosystem 6500 and it is not any surprice to find different faults some 20 years later. It all depends on the indiviual units themselves. A few times you can be lucky to find no faults or the reason for no interest in using it is that the faults makes it unplayable. Then you have those who think they can fix it which are kind of the worst you can find.
In any case once they are serviced they have a long life span and a well packed unit can be send to service when needed as the cd6500 does no weigh to much or to cumbersome in size.
This goes for 7000 too but working CD units are still more as the production years were later and thereby they have yet to develop faults as much.