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I should start off by saying that I am the least tech savvy person on the planet, so please forgive me. I was incredibly lucky to find a beogram 8000 in a thrift store. the right plate that you can pull up to show the 45 converter and more had come off due to the glue simply disintegrating, but other than that it only had a bit of dirt and scratches. I took it home after buying a converter to the normal left and right channels for speakers from a B and O store in town. However whenever the needle hits the record there's this buzzing. I've searched on the forums and I can see that others have this problem. I should say that my speakers are not B and O but everyday speakers more in my price range. They do not however have amplifiers in them, so I use a small box as an amplifier. In others words, cables from the record player go into converter cables, into the amplifier box and then into my speakers. I had a different record player before, which had a third groundwire, which I cannot find for this record player. I'll say it again, I am a technical retard so I'm probably overlooking something simple. In any case, I hope you guys have the patience to help me
Your problem does sound like a grounding problem. The Beogram DIN plug metal casing would normally take care of that ground connection between the Beogram and a Beomaster receiver's phono preamp. B&O provided an adapter cable assembly with the Beogram 8000 that converted the DIN plug wiring to left and right RCA plugs and a separate ground wire that carried forward the DIN jacket ground. That adapter was to connect the Beogram to a non-B&O phono amplifier. Without that separate ground wire you will get that hum/buzz sound.
One solution is to contact Steve and Sounds Heavenly for an adapter cable. He makes a couple versions of the adapter cable I believe. One with the "third" ground wire and one with the grounding taken care of internally (tied to the left and right shield wires).
-sonavor
Is there any way I can convince you to send me a link to the thing I need on Steve and Sounds Heavenly's website? It's not that I don't want to do the legwork, I'm just really not tech savvy and I deathly fear buying the wrong thing or, god forbid, wasting Steve's time
It is difficult to say without photos of exactly what you have in terms of your existing phono cable.
There is this cable that accepts a Beogram 8000 DIN plug and converts it to a pair of left and right RCA plugs. The grounding is taken care of.
If you need to replace the whole Beogram 8000 cable I would contact Sounds Heavenly and let them know what you need.