kimchr wrote:

Sometimes it is even difficult to know the current product line.

A few weeks ago I walked into a B&O shop after requesting a Beosystem 4 demo on the shop's website. The owner of the webshop greeted me as I entered the shop. I told him that I was here for a Beosystem 4 demo. He replied Beosystem 4...? What is Beosystem 4 - We do not sell anything called Beosystem 4. I tried again, yes you do. Beosystem 4 the stand alone box containing Beosystem 4. Then I asked for the person I had been communicating with and got the demo...

 

That would be the BeoCenter 4 you wanted a look at, then. But they should have been able to figure that out.

BTW - I seem to remember that the change to BeoXxxx came in 1994, with components being named, for instance, Beolab before then, and with capitalization of the component specific suffix being introduced that year. I'm too lazy to go hunting for the details. Anyone remember or have a link?

soundproof wrote:

BTW - I seem to remember that the change to BeoXxxx came in 1994, with components being named, for instance, Beolab before then, and with capitalization of the component specific suffix being introduced that year. I'm too lazy to go hunting for the details. Anyone remember or have a link?

But the name BeoLab for 'BeoLab Penta' was already there in the late eighties?

And the BeoSystem 4500 came in -89.

The BeoCenter 1400 is from -73

MM

Millemissen wrote:

But the name BeoLab for 'BeoLab Penta' was already there in the late eighties?

And the BeoSystem 4500 came in -89.

The BeoCenter 1400 is from -73

MM

I don't think so. Check out Beocentral's spelling (I also have Tim's book). The Jarman's follow the spelling rules quite specifically. BeoWorld doesn't get it right.

Thanks Cleve, I knew it was in the first part of the 1990s, but wasn't sure exactly when.

You mean, up to then it was more or less 'randomly' Beosystem, BEOSYSTEM....

Not consequently BeoSystem.

MM

No. They originally used Beo plus a descriptor in lowercase - Beoxxxxx. In the early 1990s they changed to BeoXxxxxx. Just wasn't certain about the year.

To go back to the original post, I think Nick is being a bit unfair. The Beosystem 2500 is a vertical CD player and was B&O's first. The Beogram CD4500 is a horizontal CD player that just happens to be usable vertically.

In the same way, you can play a record on a Beogram 1000 with it stood on its front edge, but no-one's ever claimed it was a "vertical turntable"!