Added another couple of items to my collection of preproduction units yesterday. These fit in nicely with the other items I have from the same model range as they fill in some of the gaps between the earlier samples and units from the final production in terms of changes made during the development stage.
As some of you might know, I have a Beogram 3000 with orange text named ‘Beogram 5005’, a Beogram CD 50 with built-in control panel and a Beomaster and Beocord 5000 named 4000 with wooden trim and a different front panel design.
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The newly acquired Beomaster 5000 has rosewood trim on the sides as well.
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This CD 50 didn’t come with the fancy built-in control panel though, but upon closer inspection it isn’t identical with the ‘normal’ sample I have.
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The CD 50 with control panel is quite a different beast on the inside. It was based on an Aiwa DX-1000 whereas the final model was based on an Aiwa DX-1200 according to
link website, where a detailed comparison between the two CD 50s can be found.
The one I picked up yesterday doesn't differ nearly as much from the production-version as far as I can tell. The display is bit different though and it looks like it might still feature a repeat function, which the production-version doesn't seem to have as far as I can tell from the owners manual, but I have yet to use a CD 50, so I'm not entirely sure.
The production-version:
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The early prototype:
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The early protype has additional functions shown to the left of the segment display:
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The newly acquired unit:
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I'm still on the hunt for a Beogram 5000 with rosewood trim - it would be even nicer to find one named Beogram 4000. The seller had a red labelled Beogram 5000 as well but without wooden trim. That one he intented to use instead of his TX2, so it wasn't for sale.
