How many times can we guess ? 😂

Looking great !

Martin

Dave Brubeck 🤒

Very nice trip report Peter, glad you had a good trip.

Did you also do the write up about the DBS?

By "have it" do you mean the beolab 5000 or the beogram 3000, I thought you had every bit of B&O already.

WOW ! Excellent 🙂

Dave Brubeck on the wall !!! Respect 🙂

Excellent, and well worth the wait!😁
Peter, tell me about the white, hardback book "Beolab 5000- Classic Audio"
Is this a book Frede has written and is for sale, or is it pertaining to your Beolab 5000 only (work done, output graphs etc)

Andy T.

There are two books - the large one is the normal manual every Classic Audio product comes with. This is a 79 page loose leaf folder prepared by Frede and Kirsten and contains test certificates and copies of the user manuals as well as the schematics. The little hardback book is something that Frede has been working on and I am fortunate to be the first to get one. It is a book containing a number of user manuals and catalogue pages as well as the test certificate for my own products. A very special present from Frede.

I picked up the Beogram 3000 with 12" arm from Frede as well as the Beolab and Beomaster 5000 which he has restored. I also have some Beovox 2500 cubes and a Beomaster 4401 - one of only two we know about and a pre-production model (Also supplied with full Classic Audio manuals!). These were supposed to be my old pieces restored but unfortunately, whilst at Bellac, they had been stored in a wet cellar for some reason, and the originals were rendered no more than scrap. Frede replaced them with ones of his own, something that is typical of his immense generosity. He also has fitted them with the most splendid rosewood trim and mine are the first with the new etched fronts that will never wear.

The sound from this system is wonderful - Frede demonstrated his own system whilst we enjoyed his hospitality - and anyone who either owns a Beolab 5000 system or aspires to one should really talk to Frede. Mine looks better than new and sounds fantastic. The attention to detail is incredible - the cartridge dfitted to the ST/P arm is an SP1/2 which normally has a spherical diamond. Frede had this changed to an elliptical stylus which Axel managed to fit in record time.

My trip to Venø was one of the highlights of this year and one I hope to do again in the not too distant future. The Aston Martin was fun but it pales compared to my time with Frede.

darren wrote:

By "have it" do you mean the beolab 5000 or the beogram 3000, I thought you had every bit of B&O already.

He went to get Dave Brubeck 😕

Peter wrote:

 The Aston Martin was fun but it pales compared to my time with Frede.

Sounds like a great trip with great results Peter. Noting your reference to Aston Martin, was this a pre or post B&O sound system model? I think that there was something reported in the press last week about AM getting Toyota to badge a very small car for them. Not clear whether this was to go on general sale or to be given out with each real AM purchase. (All to do with playing around with average emission figures no doubt!)

Getting back to B&O what vintage equipment gives you the most pleasure (if not already the subject of this thread!)

Graham