Yes but my Beocord 1600 still works but the 3 reel tapes I got has the very pop songs from when it was new so I don't use it much.

If you really want to keep these machines alive, what about a good review of each deck mentioned? These can be added to the site and will encourage others. A warts and all review is best rather than just gushing praise - the Beocord 5000 T4715 for instance is a marvel of engineering but is also the least reliable piece of kit every produced by B&O! Forgetting to mention this would be a mistake! If I get a reasonable entry, I may send the best review submitter a sealed TDH MA-X cassette tape! Maybe we can resurrect the poll system to judge the best effort! I want a reasonable number of entries though! Steve (sajpratty) has just written a review of the

I forgot to add - send the reviews to me by PM - I'll tidy, add links and put on site with an acknowledgement.

I've gotten good usage from my Beocord 6500 deck after I found this treasure.

I was searching for John Culshaw's book "The Ring Resounding" on eBay, and found one for USD 14. What the poster neglected to mention was that it came with the entire Wagner's Ring on musicassettes, with the cellophane wrappers on, clearly proving they'd never been used.

Bliss. I've compared the CD-version to the Musicassette, and that was instructive - friends (and I) tend to unanimously prefer the voices from cassette, but we all recognize that the details in the instruments and the dynamics are superior on the CD.
After this find, I started looking for other unused musicassettes, and there are quite a few about. 

To be able to keep things going while on the move, I just bought a little gem in a beautiful condition for 35,- Euro's. Here's a picture on the sister site of Beocentral, named Walkman Central. Another great and more unknown website by Tim and Nick Jarman, dedicated to Sony walkmans :

Nice thread!

I have a Beocord 5500 and awaiting a 9000 myself 😁

Great machines, I use mine with a stack of TDK SA90's and my parents' old Philips and Maxell tapes.

As far as I know, there aren't many other 17 year old owners of Beocords!

17 years old and a Beocord fan!!! 🤒 There is hope for us oldies (I am 41), when the Ipod generation discovers the Beocord cassette decks! 

There is hope for a revival

link

some nostalgia

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Søren Hammer wrote:

As far as I know, there aren't many other 17 year old owners of Beocords!

I can't remember exactly how old Alex was when he started posting ... may have been 16 :) ... of course he is an "old" man now :D

djram wrote:

 

There is hope for a revival

link

 

And look at this on a well known design website: link

Well, that's it then. The British newspaper ''The Guardian'', not exactly a trashy tabloid newspaper, has confirmed that the audio cassette is going through a revival. It's coming back with a vengeance. To all people who responded to this thread: It's official, we are trendsetters! Soon advertising agencies will pay us fortunes for our advice. Well, a pair of Beolab 5’s for all the people on this thread would do.