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I purchased a BeoGram 8002 off of eBay that was supposed to be recently serviced, but I found out that there is a loud ground loop hum when using the cables and preamp provided by Sounds Heavenly. I think the problem may be with the DIN jack on hte back of the turntable, as the problem goes away temporarily when I wiggle the jack around. I just took the player in for service and I haven't really had a chance to play a record all the way through!
One thing I did notice though, I received a clear vinyl album for Christmas and I did try it out on the turntable. The tonearm moves over but doesn't set down since it doesn't detect an album. Is there anything that I can place under the album or any trick I can try to play a clear album?
A work around is to take a small piece of dark paper and hold under the fixed arm (detector arm) lamp. In other words, manually navigate the tonearm to where you want to drop the stylus, then hold the paper under the detector arm lamp before you press the Play button to lower the tonearm. The detector will think it is okay to drop the stylus and begin playing. Once it drops to play you can pull away the paper and the Beogram should continue to play.
-sonavor
I think most people will agree that Sounds Heavenly is a damn fine outfit and I'd place a lot of money on it being the connector you're plugging it into. If jiggling makes it go away, then that's where the lose connection is. It's likely a dry joint that could be located and fixed reasonably easily if you know what you're doing but otherwise might have been missed in a service. If you take it to a novice electrician, they should be able to fix it for you. I think that servicing mainly looks at the capacitors which are the main components that age and break down over time so I wouldn't assume they're fibbing.
I would maybe cut out a circle of black paper to put under the album. Or if you plan to use it a lot, get a non clear version and save the clear one for special occasion, my understanding is that the clear/coloured vinyls wear out faster and that to an extent, they're collectors pieces. I have a couple coloured LPs: Red+Blue Beatles Best Of albums and a few ELO ones - they did all theirs as special editions in different colours. In the case of the Beatles, I have a regular black version of The Blue Album that I actually listen to, I keep the blue version of it for special occasions.
sonavor: A work around is to take a small piece of dark paper and hold under the fixed arm (detector arm) lamp. In other words, manually navigate the tonearm to where you want to drop the stylus, then hold the paper under the detector arm lamp before you press the Play button to lower the tonearm. The detector will think it is okay to drop the stylus and begin playing. Once it drops to play you can pull away the paper and the Beogram should continue to play. -sonavor
I guess you could also draw round an LP on a sheet of black paper or similar material, cut this out, and place it on the platter first before placing the clear LP on top. If you do this though, don't leave this sheet on the platter without an LP on top as you could make a nasty mess of your stylus if you start the turntable by accident!
Kind regards,
Martin.
Thanks for the replies. I have been in touch with Steve at Sounds Heavenly about this problem and I really don't think it is a problem with the cables. We seem to agree it could be the DIN connector on the back of the turntable. Since the only remaining B&O dealer anywhere around me is closing in less than 2 weeks I had to rush and take it in for service.
I thought about a piece of paper under the album, but I was wondering if the record would slip on top of it. I thought that a felt mat may be too think.
The clear album that I got was ELO Elderodo! Luckily some of my Kyary Pamyu Pamyu discs are picture discs, so I don't have any problems there!