Ditlev,

A very warm thank you. Your deck looks very nice. Much nicer than it looks in the Orient Express shots and closer to what the website shows. Congratulations and hope that you will enjoy good music on it. Please share the first record you listen and how it was…

That said I am a bit disappointed by the design story book who looks like a pdf printed on a Xerox copier with white borders (and I believe it is).
Also the typo in the "care" leaflet is unbelievable for an item like that.
All in all I think the storytelling magic ends when you close your internet browser and is not passed through the deck delivery and packaging… Sad.

Anyway Thanks again Ditlev and feel free to correct me if my impressions are mistaken.

There is currently nothing to be moderated.
And I cannot see you've uploaded any of the photos to the Beoworld server.

There shouldn't be any copyright issues, assuming the photos are yours.

Martin

matador43 wrote:

I am a bit disappointed by the design story book who looks like a pdf printed on a Xerox copier with white borders (and I believe it is).

Also the typo in the "care" leaflet is unbelievable for an item like that.

And the "Design Story" has "Beogram 4002" printed on its frontpage...

Martin

Fantastic - thanks for posting these - it really is a design classic.

I think there was a similar paper published for the BM4400 - I wonder if that will be next but with a black front panel and updated with streaming, internet radio etc. etc or a BM1900/2400 - I doubt it though

Dillen wrote:

And the "Design Story" has "Beogram 4002" printed on its frontpage...

Indeed, but there, we can agree they're in line with their own "mistakes".

I mean the original guide is labelled "4002": Geoff Martin posted it here a while ago.
and since the Beogram 4000c is based on the 4002, that guide make sense.
It's just the recreated deck that for whatever reason doesn't have the right number.

Dillen wrote:

matador43 wrote:

I am a bit disappointed by the design story book who looks like a pdf printed on a Xerox copier with white borders (and I believe it is).

Also the typo in the "care" leaflet is unbelievable for an item like that.

And the "Design Story" has "Beogram 4002" printed on its frontpage...

Martin

Actually it's very thick paper, and feels exclusive...

It's a copy of the 1975 original design story included with the Beogram 4002, which is what my 4000c was during her teenage years :)

matador43 wrote:

Also the typo in the "care" leaflet is unbelievable for an item like that.

totally agree, that's just sloppy...

Ditlev wrote:

It's a copy of the 1975 original design story included with the Beogram 4002, which is what my 4000c was during her teenage years :)

I know (even if not sure it was included with BG 4002, but rather distributed to "best clients" as the big bible was more recently).

:-)

(those ones are my own "recreated" copies but I believe a member of this forum has an original one, recto only, bigger, letter or maybe A4.)

Thanks for the new pictures!

The typo, mmm...  yes that's odd.

As for the design itself, I still can't quite understand why they went for this version and not the original one with at least the big bearing and the heavy platter. 

Is there a reason?

Beautiful all the same. But that Soundsmith cartridge, really... (by the way, that's also my cartridge and it doesn't fit properly 😂).