Bang & Olufsen BeoCord 1100 Cassette Deck -Trying to Fix

Volume coming out if cd player is too loud ... Lower it and listen to the difference ... You are very exellent in keeping it real ... Thank you ... your choices are exellent and please keep bringing life to my world... Much love and respect ...

Man it was heartbreaking to hear the end of the video about these videos not doing well..you're my fav channel!

I'm sad that nobody is watching, I've been watching all of your trying to fix videos for ages now.

New World Symphony, and a new life for retro B&O. 👌

You made me wince every time the VU meters were flying around.

The five pin DIN to amplifier socket was also the input FROM the amp to record on the cassette deck. Two pins for left and right in, and two pins for left and right out. The middle pin is ground/shielding. The MIC input is a much more sensitive input for a microphone. The machine is working the way it should.

I'm sad to hear that you're trying to fix videos aren't doing well. They are precisely the reason why I subscribed to your channel. They're my favourite videos.

This sounds like the level feeding into the microphone input is too “hot”. “Line Level” (or in your case “headphone out” is a much higher level signal than “Microphone “ input. It may be worth doing one of two things. 1. Turn down the headphone output at the CD player, and adjust the incoming audio at the Tape Deck until the meters don’t peak higher than 0dB. 2. Invest in a “DI Box” ( Direct Injection). This will attenuate the signal to the level that you need. A lot of people use them to connect Keyboards / Guitars/ Turntables into the microphone input of a mixing desk. I used to keep one in my tool kit, it saved a lot of trouble and fault finding.

Your Trying To Fix videos have inspired me. Educated me. Entertained me. And gave me confidence to try my own fixes. Please allow me, and others like me, to further support your content through alternative revenue streams.

Are the "trying to fix" videos not popular??! They are the reason I subscribe to your channel !! Am I weird for loving these videos then? 🙂

I sold a lot of these when I was a B&O main dealer in central London. MY biggest customers were from The Russian Trade Delegation that used to export them back to the USSR. We sometimes jokingly referred to them as KGB because they all dressed like characters from a spy novel. These units only suffered from heavy handling when people moved them around. The front mains switch was prone to being knocked due to its location. The sensitivity of a DIN input is about 3 millivolts compared to line outputs which can be as much as 750 millivolts so it would overload the more sensitive input.

Nothing more rewarding than to watch somebody work!😅

I can see the pleasure in diving into these wonderful pieces of industrial design art!

I had one of those in the 90's. Amazing piece of kit.

Your videos are always such a joy Vince! ❤️

The moment when the springs in the switch came loose and you wanted to sware but didn't, well done we've all been there when trying to repair something.

You did well on this one. Such a simple thing to get it working right. I would have been tempted to remove the 4 screws to take the faceplate out, clean it and glue it before putting the meters back in place. I did have a laugh when you were doing the gluing. "Just wearing gloves because this stuff stinks" I didn't think we used our fingers to smell things lol :). Seriously though, always enjoy your repairs.. Maybe with music moving forward, you could use the Youtube Music Library and record some of that to a cassette. The YouTube music library is designed to be royalty free music for videos.

Always look forward to watching your trying to fix videos Vince, always interesting and very entertaining to watch. As long as you still enjoy making them, and get that amazing buzz when you get something working again that was broken, which we all know you still do by that classic Vince clenched fist and yeeess commentary lol. Money I am glad to see is not the overriding factor for you in making your content, it's passion, long may that continue buddy 😊

Found your channel today and find your videos informative and enjoyable.keep up the excellent stuff !!!!

Vince please get yourself a work bench, my back and my knees are killing me just watching your videos lol.