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I have two 16 year old Beolab 8000 floor speakers. Recently, one of the speakers stopped working. The red power light was on, but the speaker was apparently not receiving a signal. I'm using a non- B&O receiver so the speakers are switched to line. I went through all of the tests regarding receiver circuitry, cables, etc,
I then took both speakers to a B&O certified repair station for my area. It was actually located 60 miles away, so quite a ride. I left the speakers there and they proceded to "Test and repair all functions to B&O specs". After waiting two weeks and shelling out $500 I brought them home. The speaker with the problem still didn't work!!! I then returned that speaker to the repair station where I was greeted rather indignantly, and told the speaker was indeed fixed. The technician then pulled out his I-pod Nano and plugged it into the speaker. It worked!!! I then took the speaker home, and of course, it didn't work.
Through a number of inquiries I finally located a small local shop run by a retired electronics "Guru", who had experience with B&O, HK, etc. I explained my whole miserable experience to him, and he said he would bench test the speaker. We placed the speaker on its back on the work bench. He then connected it to his Garrard turntable. Yup, It fired up right away. He then turned it on its side and it stopped working.
Maybe there's a loose connection or circuity problem in the amplifier. I was curious if anyone else had experienced this problem?? If the certified B&O repair station can't figure it out, I guess I'm in real trouble. I was thinking maybe it's a faulty line switch. Thanks for any info you can give me.
You're right it most probably is a loose connection or a bad solder. It'll probably take 15 seconds to fix it, the real problem is finding what spot to fix! Can't really blame the service either - if they don't get the fault to appear, it will be very hard to actually fix it (hopefully they actually did something else than just rig it up with a source for that $500, though).
What you could do is try to get it to play and then wiggle the connector in the line socket and tap the switch or the entire connector panel. If that doesn't do anything, the problem is somewhere deeper in the speaker.
--mika
Sorry;
but what kind of speaker is a Beolab 8200 ?
I know Beolab 8000 and 8002 (which was introduced in late 2010 btw )....