Happy Birthday!

I must admit that a lot of hi-fi passes through my hands but, alongside the Beolab 8000 system, I can't see my Beomaster 5000 and Beolab 5000 ever leaving. In addition, I am also the proud owner of the Acoustical version of Beogram 3000 (yes, I know it's a '3000' not a '5000' but it's definitely '2000 better' than its number suggests!)

Most excitingly, a recently acquired pair of Beolab 5000 Mk3s are in my parents' garage awaiting restoration - just the Beovox 2500s to find...

Hi Adam

Depending upon your living there's nearly allways some to buy - in Denmark e.g. Lauritzdotcom

Regards, Leif

elephant wrote:

I've provided my story ... "I fell in love with B&O when I saw a BeoLab 5000 system owned by the Greek father of friend of mine. It was 1967 and I was 17 at the time, and slide rule look in the era before the first Texas Instrument hand held electronic calculator appealed to my nascent geekiness. And the wonderful tweeter speakers were such a different solution - and their design was so space age as they looked like satellites."

😁

Nice story. Of course it would be even better if you would have a photo of you and your friend at age 17 staying hypnotized near to "do-not-touch" Beolab 5000 😎

I realized that we actually have two threads with same topic (Beolab 5000 - 50th anniversary). It would be nice to join them anyhow together if it is possible by one of our Admins...

AdamS wrote:

Happy Birthday!

I must admit that a lot of hi-fi passes through my hands but, alongside the Beolab 8000 system, I can't see my Beomaster 5000 and Beolab 5000 ever leaving. In addition, I am also the proud owner of the Acoustical version of Beogram 3000 (yes, I know it's a '3000' not a '5000' but it's definitely '2000 better' than its number suggests!)

Most excitingly, a recently acquired pair of Beolab 5000 Mk3s are in my parents' garage awaiting restoration - just the Beovox 2500s to find...

You need the Thorens version - I have both but the Acoustical version is on long term loan. The Thorens is hewn from solid. Frede also specialises in these!

the_o_master wrote:

If we decide to do this, everybody who want to participate should write a short description / story about his/her Beolab 5000 system and somebody should collect them to the book. I think it should be native english speaker who eventually could look to or correct the text. It would be also nice if somebody has experience with book-design and are willing to pack the thing into the appropriate look.

I am perfectly happy to collate this - I may get back in touch with Tim as I am sure he will be interested. My wife is an English teacher so we have a proof reader!

Of course, those of us lucky enough to have a Classic Audio 5000 system already have a wonderful Beolab 5000 book as well as a folder produced by Frede. Everything about the 5000 and individual test certificates for the items one owns. Quite frankly, it would be difficult to better that.

the_o_master wrote:

I realized that we actually have two threads with same topic (Beolab 5000 - 50th anniversary). It would be nice to join them anyhow together if it is possible by one of our Admins...

Thanks Admin for putting these two threads together! 🤒

Peter wrote:

You need the Thorens version - I have both but the Acoustical version is on long term loan. The Thorens is hewn from solid. Frede also specialises in these!

Well, I certainly wouldn't turn one away if it came up at the right price, but that price seems to be an issue! Anyway, I have a Thorens TD-224, so dont really need a 124 as well!