Calling Beomaster 8000 owners

Hi guys,

Could one of you lovely people please make a video showing both fast and slow tuning on your BM8000 so I can check mine is behaving correctly. It will be much appreciated.

Lee

Anyone?? Pretty please. It'll only take 2 mins :-)

@Lee

Human nature,- laziness...

 If you did the video you would get a zillion replies... "is it supposed to work this way...?" 

The BM8000 is awesome piece of machinery,- but by now it needs a bit of TLC. 

Any display issues ?

Haha you're probably right.. I'll make one and upload it

My BM8000 has been fully restored. All new caps, new LEDs in the display, all major connectors hard bridged for reliability etc. It sounds sublime but I'm not 100% sure the tuner is behaving correctly. I had an issue that was caused by a stray bit of solder but that's fixed now.

It does seem to grab onto weak signals sometimes but I think that's probably an antenna issue... I have an old 300ohm rabbit ear antenna (B&O) and someone at some point had cut the plug off it... I managed to source some plugs (if anyone wants one I have several!) but I extended the length of it with some speaker wire and I'm sure that's not correct... Does anyone know what the correct length of the 300ohm cable should be? I'll order some and see if that'll help.

Lee

I've made a video showing the behaviour in both auto and manual mode. It occasionally locks into a station that isn't there on auto mode. It doesn't do this with the antenna disconnected though and only locks on to strong stations.

https://youtu.be/u4mIBjZ0SZg

Looking at your video, my Beomaster 8000 works like yours does. In Auto mode it tries to lock into a station as you turn the tuning dial so it stops to figure things out as it goes. In Manual mode it just keeps moving until you stop turning the dial.

sonavor

Thanks for that makes me feel much better!

Does yours also latch onto stations that aren't really there sometimes? I'm wondering if it's interference it's picking up..

Mine does find some stopping places in Auto tune mode that have no sound. The signal strength meter does register something though. There are just a lot of empty channels out there now. One day I'll probably have to buy one of those home FM transmitters and broadcast my own music so I have something to tune in on my vintage audio tuners.

Could it be that the "ghost" stations are used for DAB broadcasts or something else like data? If so then it's behaving normally and picking up a signal and stopping - even though nothing on it. My BM6500 is a nightmare to tune in auto mode - only had to do it once when I moved it to a different house.

@ Sonavor

I can highly recommend your idea! But remember to get a stereo version!

Your own wireless link, where even your cars can join!

The quality easily surpasses BT, and you have zero latency.

Old-school technology @ work!