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Friday, June 16, 2023

Beogram 8000 Type 5513: Tomball Texas Project Completed

This nice Beogram 8000 project is now complete and is ready to return to its owner.

The last few tasks were some simple tasks like re-attaching the deck panel that fits underneath the tonearm.


























The dust cover was in good shape but in the right light I could see some scratches that I felt a quick buffing would clean up.

The picture on the left is before doing any polishing.  The photo on the right is after some light buffing with the mildest polish I have.














There was already an improvement.

With a little bit more polishing the Beogram 8000 was ready to move to my listening room.
I think it looks really good.
























































Now for the fun part...the listening tests.
I like that a lot of the new record pressings are in colorful vinyl.  They look good spinning on the platter :-)





























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