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Hello everyone. I'm new here and very happy to be part of the forum. ( Is there a presentation section ? )
I’m a 25 French teacher and I have a question! (Many actually but It’ll come later ;) )
I have Mk1 BeoLab 4000 speakers linked to a BeoSound 4, everything works fine and I’m very pleased with it. But I noticed months ago that, when in standby mode (I never turn them off), my speakers randomly make a kind of ticking noise. I doesn’t happen when there’s music playing or the TV sound on, it always work perfectly perfect. It sounds like a metal sounds, as if the metal was contracting or expanding (like wood that “works” on its own). It’s not much of a problem since everything works fine, but I thought I should ask anyway.
Thanks for your help, have a good day.
Manu
Hi Manu, and welcome to Beoworld…
Now you mention that
Is it a regular cracking sound or does it happened from time to time only?
I have a pair of BL4000 too, they're standing on wood cubes and I sometimes use to hear small "detonations".
I have always put them on the wood work (it is raw, not processed), but now you talk, maybe it is from the speakers ?
Hello, thanks for the answer!
The time between the tic sounds isn't regular, but it happens very often, mostly after I use the speakers for several hours and put them in stand by mode. I don't think it comes from the audio parts because nothing's wrong when there's audio playing, and it really sounds like metal, not like an amp 'blop'. I was thinking about taking it to a specialist but I think it might be costly and useless!
This is actually quite a common problem with the early Beolab 4000's
If you open up one of your Beolab 4000's you will almost always find that the foam inside is falling apart into a soft almost liquid form.
Have a look at the tread HERE scroll down and you will see a picture of what happens and teh damage it can cause.
Regards Keith....
Also have a look at the thread HERE
Thanks for the tip Keith, I checked the thread.
Unfortunately I'm not skilled and confident enough to open them up myself. I'm gonna call my (fantastic) repair guy when the containment will be over. I hope it's just the aluminium cooling down and expanding or contracting... But still happy that they're working great
Update - Mine have the white foam, number 18xxxxx! Still trying to figure it out. My BO repair guy doesn't know!
"You think we can slap some oak on this thing?"
Nope, still green and doesn't affect the music playing, and still red on stand by mode