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[twintwelve1484]

I have a Beogram 2400 and a Beogram 1602.

The 1602 is a little different than the one pic'd on Beoworld, as it has a thin carbon fiber tubular arm with a little round counterweight, more like a 'conventional' tonearm.

The 2400 is as pictured on Beoworld.

How in the devil do you set tracking force and anti skate on these little beasts?

 

[harhau]

Beowitched, B&Othered and beowildered no more....?

At one point I used to own a Beogram 2202 with a round counterweight (as depicted on BeoWorld). The tracking force was set in the conventional way by turning the counterweight. As far as I recall a full turn corresponded to something like 1.5 gram. There is no separate adjustment of anti-skating. According to BeoWorld, " Bias effect was compensated automatically and needed no adjustment." If you need a replacement cartridge, Sound Smith has the rights to make new B&O type cartrigdes.They are not unobtanium, but rather expensive.

Good luck with your stylish turntables!

- Harald

 

[Beobloke]

As Harald says, it's set in the conventinal way, but the tricky bit is that there's not conventional arm rest as such, and so the arm is nearly always cued 'up' by a small support which the arm can't be lifted off!
The best way i have found of getting round this little problem is to set the deck playing a record, then unplug it. The arm balance and tracking weight can then be set and applied in the usual way before plugging back in.

Adam.

 

[CortR]

Don't know about the 2400, but I've owned two 1602s and AFAIK there is no anti-skate adjustment possible, Then again you don't have the standard tonearm. Any chance of a pic of the arm? I've used Beobloke's unplug it trick, too, but a caveat is in order. The servo is finicky and power interruption has resulted in a frozen servo on both 1602s I've owned, Admittedly, both times were after electrical storms (every time we get a good thunderstorm here in Dallas I lose power). Both times a record was playing when power went out. Expensive to fix, and is the main reason I no longer own either of those 1602's. Sad because they are much better sounding TTs then many give them credit for.

 

[twintwelve1484]

Don't know about the 2400, but I've owned two 1602s and AFAIK there is no anti-skate adjustment possible, Then again you don't have the standard tonearm. Any chance of a pic of the arm? I've used Beobloke's unplug it trick, too, but a caveat is in order. The servo is finicky and power interruption has resulted in a frozen servo on both 1602s I've owned, Admittedly, both times were after electrical storms (every time we get a good thunderstorm here in Dallas I lose power). Both times a record was playing when power went out. Expensive to fix, and is the main reason I no longer own either of those 1602's. Sad because they are much better sounding TTs then many give them credit for.

Ahhh....thanks for the tip. Time to hook it up to a UPS, I guess!

 

[twintwelve1484]

The layout of the table is standard 1602, but the arm is like this one...except all black, and carbon fibre:

 

[twintwelve1484]

I guess the confusing bit about this tonearm is that, as stated above, one turn out from balanced equals 1.5 grams, but the buggers put these clever little numbers around that tiny counterweight. I guess the numbers are for show and have nothing to do with anything. When I initially tried to use the numbers and, according to them, turned it out to 1.5, the results were laughable.

Last night I did the one-turn-out bit, and it plays beautifully. : )