Tales from the Beobench

[Beobloke]

Background music?

Yes - background music for offices, factories etc. Now known as "muzak" after the Muzak corporation, who came up with the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak

 

[TIU]

So what MVJ listens to then?

 

[slavedata]

Does it have a Juke box function or is it just a BSR style records stack?

 

[TIU]

Taken today in Leamington Spa.

 

[Jazid]

Does it have a Juke box function or is it just a BSR style records stack?

It's Muzak, can it possibly matter to anyone what order it's played in?

 

[slavedata]

Japanese micro managers would disagree with you there. The science of muzak dictates what type of music at what time of day. Stirring stuff to get you going first thing and after lunch. Quieter mid session so you don't get pissed off with it. My first saturday job was stacking shelves in Tesco I used to look forward to "Lazy Sunday Afternoons" coming round.

 

[Jazid]

Japanese micro managers would disagree with you there. The science of muzak dictates what type of music at what time of day. Stirring stuff to get you going first thing and after lunch. Quieter mid session so you don't get pissed off with it. My first saturday job was stacking shelves in Tesco I used to look forward to "Lazy Sunday Afternoons" coming round.

You are so right of course, my bad. I sometimes forget that many, maybe most, people don't *listen* to music; they enjoy or use it differently, and fair play to them if it floats their boat.

 

[Beobloke]

Does it have a Juke box function or is it just a BSR style records stack?

It plays both sides of each record in order and then, at the end, lifts them up and starts again until you stop it.
It’s been covered by Mat at Techmoan, too.

 

[Beobloke]

Yamaha MS-6 is home, cleaned up and very nice. Needs a cartridge and some capacitors to cure a hum but I’m pleased with my purchase!

 

[Beobloke]

It also comes apart nice and easily for servicing which makes a change from the B&O stuff I’m usually wrestling with!

 

[Tony_J]

You just need to use a bigger hammer

 

[rabski]

It also comes apart nice and easily for servicing which makes a change from the B&O stuff I’m usually wrestling with!

The good old days. Stickers telling you what goes where and what needs done. Makes a change from contemporary stuff where they file off the part numbers and info, so half of it is blind guessing, assuming you can even get into it.

 

[Beobloke]

Routine stuff tonight - muting relay in a Beomaster 5000.

All apart…



….and back together, with the troublemaker at the front ready for the bin.

 

[Beobloke]

Beocord 5000 belt change tonight.

 

[Beobloke]

And then a last bit of cassette deck and receiver fettling. All sounding great now!



And no, stupidly, this isn’t my Wam show 5000 system - it’s a different one. Well, two actually. They’re done now, so I really must check out my own, which hasn’t seen daylight for a few years.

How many Beosystem 5000s is too many, I wonder?

 

[Beobloke]

Bit of DIY finishing tonight - my Linsley Hood phono stage has a proper PSU at last!

 

[MVJ]

You just need to use a bigger hammer

Looks like he did

 

[Beobloke]

Back to the Beogram briefly tonight, as I seemed to remember that the motor mounting rubber bushes looked a bit iffy when I stripped the motor down.

Understatement….



Good old Beoparts to the rescue!

 

[Beobloke]

Also changed the belts on the cassette deck of the Beocenter 9500 which is now….wait for it…. READY for the Wam Show!!