BANG OLUFSEN Beogram 4000c Recreated Limited Edition User Guide

BANG OLUFSEN Beogram 4000c Recreated Limited Edition User Guide

The original iconic turntable that set the standard for sound, design

and craftsmanship – reimagined and refurbished for contemporary use.

What you need to get started with your Beogram 4000c:

1. Loosen the three transportation lock screws found in the bottom. Gently tilt your product to access without flipping it over. The transport screws are slightly larger, and their position can be seen in the original illustration in section 6. Turn the screws clockwise until loosened.
2. Put the turntable platter into place.
3. Connect your Beogram 4000c to power.
4. Connect with your desired speaker, using the Phono/Line signal cables.

You are now ready to enjoy music from your favorite records.

You can connect your Beogram 4000c to the Bang & Olufsen app to further immerse in the story.

The Beogram 4000c consists of products from the Beogram 4000 series, designed and produced from 1972 to 1980.

This includes the Beogram 4002. Beogram 4004 and Beogram 6000.

All Beogram 4000c units are recreated and upgraded with the same care, attention to detail and same functionalities, while maintaining the timeless spirit at their core.

Beogram 4002-a high-fidelity stares record player festering fully automatic operation and high specification. It is a development of Bang & Oluf sen’s first electronically con trolled record plover with tangential arm which tracks the disc in a straight line The new MMC 4000 pickup uses an elliptic naked diamond, stylus force 1 grammar Alan the rotation of the dist is alactrunirally controlled and consequently is independent of mains voltage variations.

We wish to congratulate you on your Beogram 4002. Wa hope that these instructions will help you to realize the full benefit of your stereo system so that you will have no protyle’s in attaining your objective listening to music.
Yours faithfully. Bang & Olufsen.

The limited edition Beogram 4000c has been brought home to the facilities, in Strober, Denmark, where it was originally created.

After a careful inspection, components have been cleaned and new spare parts added to ensure full functionality. All settings are adjusted and finetuned for maximum performance. Recreated and upgraded by hand, beautiful new design elements are added to the original components, to make it look and feel like new. Technology upgrades have been incorporated to prepare for integration with modern speaker technology.

SETTING UP

The job of setting up your Beogram 4002 after transport and unpacking is covered by изерагате маnual.

The unit should be planet horizontally on a tenia or shelf system, in order to allow the dust cover to be opened completely, sufficient free height should be provided above the unit corresponding to 40 cm between two shelves as show in this sketch.

Connection to Amplifier
The cable fitted with a DIN plug should be run to the PHONO Input (how impel dance of a high-fidelity stereo amplifier or stereo ra dio.

Mains
As received by you, your Beo- gram 4002 is set to 220 volts, and if this is your local mains voltage, all you have to do is to plug the mains lead into a wall socket. If not, the unit must be switched to the proper vol- tage, it has provision for switching between mains vol tages of 110, 130, 220, and 240 volts AC. The change-over switch is located in the bot- tom of the unit and is easily turned, using a coin.

Your Beogram 4002 will operate on mains frequen- cies of both 50 and 60 Hz without switching of any kind.

Stylus Force Adjustment
Recommended stylus force for the MMC 4000 is 1 grammar.
The adjusting device (13) allows adjustment of stylus force between 0 and 1.5 gram- mes. Use the screwdriver which is provided, reading the value on the small scale.

Recommended stylus force for the SMMC20CL is 1,3 grammes. This is adjusted at the factory.

Beogram 4000c resurfaced UI.
The aluminum user interface has been resurfaced, re-anodized and laser engraved again. Underneath the cover, the programming has been modernized and refined, allowing for an even quicker response time and optimized delay adjustment of mute circuit when operating.

RECREATED LIMITED EDITION No. 100

1. Stop and rapid outward travel
2. Slow outward travel
3. LIFT
4. SLOW inward travel
5. Start and rapid inward travel
6. Selection of 45 r.p.m.
7. Adjustment of 45 r.p.m.
8. 45 r.p.m. indicator
9. 33 r.p.m. Indicator
10. Selection of 33 r.p.m.
11. Adjustment of 33 r.p.m.
12.  MMC 4000 pickup
13. Stylus force adjustment

Beogram 4000c is now featuring the SMMC20CL pickup cartridge, which is manufactured based on original Bang & Olufsen specifications.

OPERATION
Your Beogram 4002 is very simple to operate. All you have to do is to put a disc on the turntable and.
press the ON button,
The automatic control system will then make the turntable rotate at the correct speed and bring the pickup in to the first groove of the disc and lower it. When the disc has finished, the pickup lifts and travels out to the side, and the turntable stops.

Manual Operation
Your Baogram 4002 also has provision for more individual operation. You can stop playing, introducing a pause, begin playing in any desired place on the disc, or repeat a section.
Stop
If you wish to stop playing be fore the disc has finished,  press OFF. The pickup will then rise and travel sideways out, and the turntable will stop.
Pause
You can introduce a pause anywhere you want while playing a disc. A light pres- sure applied to LIFT-with this symbol will lift the pickup, and the pickup will be relowered when you press a second time.
Arbitrary Lowering
If you do not wish to listen to a disc from the beginning, *press ON again. The pickup will now travel in across the disc until you lower the stylus into the groove by pressing LIFT.

This movement across the < disc is relatively quick. |f you prefer slower scanning, press (4) instead. Movement will occur only as long as you press the button, Ta lower, press LIFT (3).

Repeat
When you wish to repot a section you have already heard, you >> OFF can do it in two ways:
Rapid scanning: By passing OFF you can cause the pickup 10 travel out until you lower the stylus by pressing LIFT.
Slow scanning: Keep (2) depressed until the stylus is above the desired place and thereafter press LIFT,

Discs with Large Centre Holes
To play a disc with a large center hale, the record spindle should be fitted with the adapt tor which is supplied, before putting the disc on.

Speed
Your Bagram 4002 automatically selects the proper speed, indicated by illumination of one of the scales, 33 or 45.
In the case of the special 17. cm discs to be played at 33 r.p.m. you can select the speed yourself:
*First press ON, and keep 33 depressed until the stylus has been lowered into.

Fine Adjustment of Register
Your Bagram 4002 has two pointers and adjustment knobs for reading and (If required) adjusting the register. The 33 and 45 £.p.m. speeds can be adjusted individually, and corroct adjustment is where the pointers are at 0. Towards “+or — the speed is higher or lower, respectively., than the standard speed.

Care of dises
In designing the Beogram 4002, every effort has been made to ensure that your records can be played a large number of times with no deterioration of sound quality.

However, there is something you can do yourself, for example, you can minimize wear by avoiding dust par ticles and finger prints on your records.

Dust can be wiped off using one of the aids which are commercially available, but it is better to try to avoid the necessity for removing it.

We assume that you keep your discs in their jackets or albums. It is not immaterial how you take out a disc because the friction against the inner side of the jacket is enough to give the disc a static charge so it will attract dust.

Hold the disc jacket so that its sides bend away from the disc. Put your hand in below the disc so that the middle finger touches the center hole and the thumb grips the rim of the disc, and without touching the grooves of the disc. Pull the disc out of its jacket in such a manner that the jacket only touches the rim of the disc, not the actual surfaces.

Only hold the rim of the disc when putting it on the turntable.

Keep the dust cover of your Beogram 4002 closed while playing the disc.

Put the disc back in its jacket in the same careful manner, avoiding friction between the sides of the disc and the jacket. By doing so you help to re duce the need for anti-static wiping of your dices. Should this become necessary, pro cede as follows:

Put the disc on the turntable; press ON; wait until the pickup has been lowered; then press LIFT. The pickup will now lift while the turntable continues to rotate, and you can wipe the disc.

Cleaning the Pickup Stylus
Dust is practically certain to collect around the diamond stylus proper.

The cleaning brush supplied with your Beograd 4002 is specially designed for clean- ing the stylus, and the sketch shows how to use it. Hold the brush up against the metal housing of the pickup cartridge, behind the stylus proper, and thereafter move it forwards in the direction of the transparent section of the pickup.

CAUTION: Brushing in the opposite direction will ruin the stylus assembly, thereby rendering the pickup cartridge unserviceable.

Do not use detergents – use only this brush.

The protective hood should any be put on the pickup during transport of the Beo- gram 4002, not every time you have finished using it.

Replacing the Pickup Cartridge

Should 1t bacoma nacessary 1o replace the pickup car- tridge because of damage to the stylus assembly or some other defect, the entire pick: up cartridge should be taken off the arm and a new one Inserted.

Hold the pickup firmly with ane hand while carefully maving the cartridge from sde 10 side, pulling out- wards with the other.

A new complete cartridge car- ries this designation:

MMC 4000 type 8954410

Each MMC cartridge is supplied packed complete with calibra tion card showing the technical data of that particular unit.
Each MMC 4000 unit is in dwidually matched. This is your guarantee that it meets the technical data specified for it.

Checking the Stylus Forca
Stylus fork is adjusted as de- scribed on page 2. A check on the stylus force can be performed with the stylus: force balance which is pro- vided, Place the balance on the chassis dack, to the right of the turntable, and control the pickup so that it is lowered on to the scale of the balance. To do this, first pross ON and quickly thereafter (4), By alternately pressing (3), (2) (3) and (4) (3), causa the stylus to go down on that point of tha balance where equilibrium exists. Read the number on the balance, and you can see whether it agrees with the reading on (13). If the disagree- mint is 100 great, we suggest that you have your dealer adjust the pickup-arm counterbalance weight.
MEA wring accuracy of the stylus-tore balance is 0.1 grammar

Conversion to 4 Channels
Your Beograd 4002 can be converted so that it will also play CCD-4 quadrophonic dises
The pickup cartridge must be replaced with an MMC 6000, which covers a frequency range up to 45,000 Hz.
Also required is a CD-4 decoder, to be installed in the record player. A separate, external decoder of another make may be connected instant. Last ly, the record player and de- coder must be connected to a 4-channel amplifier system.

MAINTENANCE
The external surfaces of your Beograd 4002 can normally be kept clean with a dry cloth. Any grease marks on the metal surfaces can be removed with a soft cloth moistened in a cold or luke warm solution of detergent in water, followed by thorough wiping with a dry cloth.

Take care not to damage the stylus!
Put the protective hood on before wiping the metal sur faces of your Beograd 4002.

Beogram 4000c does not support the CD-4 quadrophonic format, instead it has been upgraded with a high performance RIAA pre-amplifier for contemporary stereo listening

Dust Cover
Repeated wiping with dry cloth will cause the dust cover 1o eventually pickup a static charge.
We therefore suggest that you occasionally use detergent when wiping the dust cover.

Da not use alcohol as it may attack the material
Teak and Rosewood
1t the wood surfaces seem grey and dry you may apply a thin film of 1eak or rosewood oll, though not mare than once or twice a year, Use o thin grade oil, especially tor rosewood.

Blond Oak
D0 not use oil under sny circumstances – even non-oil detergent or wax can cause discoloration of the untreated surface. The removal of dark sots should be left to an expert.

The Beograd 4000c is made with a new crafted solid Light Oak frame. To clean, wipe dust off the surfaces using a dry, soft cloth. To remove stains or dirt, use a soft, damp cloth and a solution of water and mild detergent, such as washing-up liquid. Do not use liquid cleaners or aerosol cleaners.

TECHNICAL DATA| DIN 45 500 Raquirements| Subject to change without notice
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Type No.| | 5501
Sound system| | Stereo, matrix
Output| | 2x1mV
Speeds| | 33-45
Tonearm| | Tangential
Pickup cartridge| | MMC 4000
Automatic record-size| | Yes
Automatic pickup movement| | Yes
Automatic speed selection| | Yes
Wow and flutter, DIN| <±0.2%| ±0.05
Wow and flutter, WRMS| | <±0.025%
Rumble DIN unweighted| > 35 dB| >42 d8
Rumble DIN weighted| >55 dB| >65 dB
Speed deviation| <<+1.5%-1%| <0.02%
Speed control range| | >6%
Dial for speed| | 2 pointers
Stylus pressure range| | 0-15 gram
Tangential tracking| | 0.04
Lift system| | Electronic
Antiskating| | Parallel tracking, error angle com
Motor| | Controlled synchronous
Drive system| | Belt
Turntable| | 30 cm 2.2 kg
Dust cover| | Hinged and detachable
Power supply| | 110-130-220-240 volts
Frequency| | 50-60 Hz
Power consumption| | 40 watts
Dimensions WxHxD| | 49 x 10 x 38 cm
Weight| | 12 kg
Pickup| | Elliptical naked diamond
Stylus| Spherical 15 um 15 µm| 5 x 17 µm
Radius| 40-12.500 Hz ±5 dB| 20-30,000 Hz ±2.5 dB
Frequency range| 63.5-8,000 Hz ±2 dB| 50-20,000 Hz ± 1.5 dB
Channel separation 1000 Hz| > 20 dB| >25 dB
400-10,000 Hz| >15 dB| >20 dB
Channel difference| <2dB| <1.5 dB
Intermodulation| <1%| <1%
Recommended stylus pressure| <5 gram| 1 gram
Compliance| >4 x 10 cm/dyn| 30 x 10 cm/dyn
Effective tip mass| | 0.5 mg
Output mV/cm/sec.| | 0.6 mV/47 kohms

Updated technical specifications for Beogram 4000c and our new Technical Sound Guide can be found online on:

on.beo.com/beogram-4000c-support

BEOGRAM 4002-6000

1. Dust cover
2. Turntable
3. Pickup
4. Drive balt and adapter

The Beogram 4000c comes in a crafted wooden box, where the turntable platter is placed in a separate layer on top of the Beogram .

The pick-up and drive belt has already been installed in our factory in Struer.

A turntable care-kit and audio adapter cables are placed in the accessories compartment in the right side of the wooden box

Assembly after Tramport
Your Bagram 4002-6000 is protected in several ways against carriages in transit.
It is important that your Beo gram is correctly assembled and set up after it is unpacked If you wish, you may leave this to your dealer.

The following components are enclosed in the foam in- serts in the carton

1. Dust cover
2. Turntable
3. Drive belt and adapter
4. Pick-up

The pickup carton contains the following items SP 15 pickup cartridge with stylus guard Screwdriver for stylus force adjustment Cleaning brush for pickup stylus Balance for checking stylus force
NOTE: Keep the original packing and this instruction for use at a later transport. Unnecessary da mage may be done to the record player if it is sent without being correctly secured and packed.
To prepare your Beogram for use, proceed as follows:

Your Beogram 4000c comes almost fully assembled. Only remember to loosen the three transportation lock screws.

Turntable and Belt, and One Inside Lock Screw

1. Using a small screw- driver, release two spring locks, one in either side in the back left and right corners, marked A in the sketch.

2. The wooden frame may now be pushed approx. 1 cm forward, thereby releasing the aluminium chassis decks.

3. Lift up chassis deck B and remove it towards the right.

4. Lift up and remove chas sis deck C.

5. Close to the pickup lift- ing system is a lock screw which secures the system during transport. This screw should be turned anti-clockwise and re moved.

These steps have been carried out in our factory for your convenience.

6. The turntable and belt can be mounted in va- rious ways. The simplest one is to put the belt on the turntable before lowering the latter on to the shaft.

First put the belt around the turntabile belt face on the under side. The bright side should face outwards, and the belt should tem porarily be placed up a bove the rim as shown in the sketch.

7. Then lower the turntable on to its shaft and bring the belt around the mo for belt pulley without twisting it.

Turn the turntable slight ly to check that the me chanical transmission is smooth and unimpeded.

8. Lower chassis deck C back into place, the spring bar should paint towards the top right corner.

9. Put chamis deck B dia- gonally down; the mil led edge (see sketch) should face left, towards C, and be pushed in be low the spring bar.

10. Move the wooden sides and front backwards.

These steps have been carried out in our factory for your convenience.
Your Beogram 4000c comes with a new drive belt already mounted.

 Picku

1. Remove the transit pro- tection device, inserted between the two arms.
2. Insert the pickup cartridge in the pickup arm.
3. Remove the stylus guard.

Mounting the Dust Cover

The dust cover has an alumini- um panel which contains the hinge and spring system proper. To secure this panel to the turn- table unit, proceed as follows:

1. Turn two screws in the rear corners in the bot- tom of the turntable unit anti-clockwise, pressing a finger against the sur- face of the lock bushing to prevent it from rotat ing.

2. When the screws have been loosened sufficient- ly to permit the bushings to get raised 5-6 mm, the aluminium panel of the dust cover may be brought in below the heads of the two lock bushings.

3. Retighten the screws. You may find it neces sary first to close the cover and bring it into position before finally tightening the screws.

All other information-ampli- fier connection, mains voltage, mains frequency, adjustments and operating procedure is given in the enclosed operating instructions for the Beogram.

These steps have been carried out in our factory for your convenience.
Beogram 4000c arrives with a new dust cover, already mounted.

Component Action Completed

Complete mechanical structure| Free movement adjusted and turntable platter aligned|

New main bronze bearing| Mounted and lubricated|

Tonearm sled| Cleaned and lubricated. Speed and planarity adjusted (channel separation)|

DC Motor| Refurbished. Speed adjusted – 33 RPM & 45 RPM|

New pick-up cartridge| Tracking force adjusted. Measured value|

New RIAA pre-amplifier| Output level adjusted. Right Channel Left Channel|

New UI panel| Surface treated and mounted|

New power and signal cables| Installed|

New dust cover| Mounted|

New solid oak frame| Hand crafted and mounted|

Original aluminum parts| Remachined and restyled|

All components| Isolation test|

All components| Final cleaning and surface inspection|

All components| Full function test|

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