Beolab1 wrote:

Last year I got a really nice Beocord 7000 cassette deck from LifeStyle AV to replace the one that I had in my BeoSystem 7000. The system that I started putting together in 2007. I watched the BeoSystem 7000 for hours through the window of a Bang & Olufsen dealer after it came out in the early nineties. Knowing that my savings at that time wouldn’t even cover the boxes that it came in. Few weeks ago I bought a pack of new TDK SA90 tapes and started using this great cassette recorder more often.

What a pleasure, recording mixed tapes from CD's! I forgot how nice tapes can sound with Dolby C and am now rediscovering this lost audio format. Of course it's much more work than using a computer and playlists, but recording tapes with the BeoSystem 7000 is such a fun thing to do (for B&O freaks). Controlling the whole procedure with the Beolink 7000, watching the tape spin in the Beocord 7000 drawer. I am a sucker for the nostalgia of spending an evening picking the best songs, manually setting the recording level for a perfect recording, playing around with the Beolink 7000 and then listening to the tape on a Sunday morning.

Therefore my Beoworld petition to keep the tradition of Beocord cassette recording alive! 

Currently playing? A mixed tape named: ''I need some Frank''. Because we all need some good old Frank Sinatra with big band, every now and then.

Agree with everything you're saying!

Can you cross-post in the 'Can Someone Explain MP3 etc....' thread?!

I have been reading that thread, but it's an analogue/digital war zone! Serious battering in non B&O style. Just too much of this 😡.

Beolab1 wrote:

Therefore my Beoworld petition to keep the tradition of Beocord cassette recording alive! 

I'm signed up!

I still think it's the most adaptable, easy to use, recording/replay format particularly for recording live concerts off radio.  I've got 5 B&O recorders - A Beocord 9000, a Beocenter 9500, a Beocenter 4000 (70s model), a Beosystem 2500 and a Beosystem 10 (I can't really count that, I know as the cassette recorder is rubbish).  

With the timer facilities and the auto reverse I can get 41/2 hours of recording whilst I'm out, pick them up, throw them in the car and listen to them whilst driving on the 6th player (sadly, of course, not B&O)

Cleve

I also totally agree with you beolab,and as frank would say "I DID IT MY WAY"

naughty! naughty! john, 😂😂😂

Beolab1 wrote:

Therefore my Beoworld petition to keep the tradition of Beocord cassette recording alive! 

Yeah, I'll sign up to that too!🙂

I have the same set-up as OP and I too have some new TDK blank cassettes (recently purchased) upon which I like to record mixed cd's whilst playing about with the Beolink 7000😁 

I have a 1999 Jaguar which, believe it or not, doesn't have a cd-player fitted! - just the factory fitted radio/cassette! Instead of having a multi-cd box thingie fitted - I've just done a bit of 'home-made' cassette compilations I have recorded on the B&O, the resulting sound in the car is really superb!😁

Michael

I do my thing to keep them alive.

Once they are working right you got some very great machines for playing cassete tapes.

If you got better tapes than type 1 you get some really good use out of them.

I got Beocord 6000, 8000 for repairs (will be done), 9000, 6500, 5500 which are working great and deserves to be used more than I do at the moment. Then there is a Beocord 1900 somewhere that still has the belts complete but a bit loose in the electronics somehow.

Best of all the price of one these days but its kind of an obsolite product for most people which is rather sad.

I agree with U all. IMO it's important to keep the vintage B&O systems "alive and kicking". If you have a 5000/5500/6500/7000 system, it looks best with all 4 units -and the 4500 looks best with Beomaster, Beogram CD and Beocord next to each other (not just BM and BGCD).
And ofcourse it's most fun if everything is fully functional. I don't listen to tapes every day -but it's nice to put a tape in those lovely B&O tapedecks now and then, and enjoy the sound -and the looks of those LED lights blinking 😐 Call me oldfashioned 😕
I'ts not because i love the cassette tapes -If I had a tapedeck of any other brand, I would probably have kicked it out years ago.
And, yes -I have an mp3 player too -and a music library on the computer. I just like to have many sources to choose from.
I have never really understood those people who just scrap all their previous stuff when something new comes around. The one thing doesn't exclude the other. Many people sold their record collection when the CD's arrived -then they scrapped their tapes -then their CD's in favor of downloaded files etc. But -we're all different.

I have a few B&O tapedecks: Beocord 5000 (80's model), Beocord 6500, Beocord 3300 -and the one in my Beocenter 9500.
I have just bought new belts for the 5000 and 3300 -(from Martin "dillen"). A little project for the upcoming autumn.

Nice to know that you like the sound of your BC 7000. But my experience with that tapedeck is, that the soundquality is not up to the standard of the previous models. Last year I bought a Beosystem 7000. I was not satisfied with the sound of the Beocord -luckily i had a BC 6500 with a worn cabinet - so I swapped the tape mechanisms. And now I have a BC 7000 with a 6500 inside -and it sounds great!

Does anybody else have experience with this? Is the soundquality actually lower in the 7000 -or did i just get a worn tapedeck?

I also have a Beocord 4500, but the Beocord 7000 sounds better. It must be the Dolby C that the Beocord 4500 doesn't have, that improves the quality.   

Steffen wrote:

Nice to know that you like the sound of your BC 7000. But my experience with that tapedeck is, that the soundquality is not up to the standard of the previous models. Last year I bought a Beosystem 7000. I was not satisfied with the sound of the Beocord -luckily i had a BC 6500 with a worn cabinet - so I swapped the tape mechanisms. And now I have a BC 7000 with a 6500 inside -and it sounds great!

Does anybody else have experience with this? Is the soundquality actually lower in the 7000 -or did i just get a worn tapedeck?

7000 has been built with two different mechanisms, but other than that it is pretty much identical to 6500. There are plenty of things that can go wrong and affect the sound: the azimuth angle of the head or the mechanics that flip it over, magnetization, dirt, other adjustments (or somebody "adjusting" them trying to compensate for unrelated problems, etc) and of course simply wear.