fritz@hpfclk.UUCP (03/12/84)
Personal experience (take it for what it's worth): I have an old B&O 2400 turntable. I want to get rid of it, and would not get another B&O, for the following reasons: 1. It only takes B&O cartridges, which are OK, but not great -- especially for the price. 2. The insides of that thing are like spagetti code. Mine developed the disconcerting habit of retracting the arm before it finished lifting the stylus (EEEYYAAAHHH!!), and I tried to fix it myself. No way! After several hours of examination, I thought I'd found the appropriate adjustment to fix it, but every time I fixed one problem, another one (lowering stylus at wrong point, etc.) showed up. I am NOT at all impressed with the mechanical design. B&O's are pretty, but they really cram the mechanics into a tiny area to get that slim profile -- and appearance isn't what you're after, is it?