Agree with that, Peter - and it's smart to put the Beomaster on top of the CD-player. Putting weight on the CD-player helps reduce any vibrations in that unit. This is in my home-office.

i have a 3x2...

From bottom to top, mine are cord, CD, master and obviously gram on the top 😂

If I had the space, I'd lay them all flat though. I have actually entertained the thought of building a wall shelf to take them like that (as invisible as possible, like the Beogram shelves are).

Mine is a 2+2 setup with the beocord and beogram cd on the bottom and the beomaster and beogram deck on top.

I had to put the beomaster on top as it was getting fairly hot in mcl setup.

Love to see other peoples pics of their setups  and I'll try to post one later myself ...

soundproof wrote:

Agree with that, Peter - and it's smart to put the Beomaster on top of the CD-player. Putting weight on the CD-player helps reduce any vibrations in that unit. This is in my home-office.

Love that setup and you are right I'll try to put the beomaster on top of my cd player and see if it helps as my 6500 cd player is temperamental at best.

Gosh! This corner has changed over the past couple of years!

Actually when I had my 7000 set up, I had two Beocords on the bottom, the BeogramCD and the Beomaster on top and the Beogram LP on the wall bracket.

Beogram on top, the BM 7000 then casette player with the CD at the bottom - from memory I will now go and check (I was right)!  The reason to have the casette player one up from the bottom is to stop it knocking things off when opening it!  The CD player is only 1/3 of the width and slightly higher so it does not knock a record cleaning cloth off when opening! 

I have always stacked them this way since my first BM 5000 system back in 1985!

This is also the way that nearly all the catalgoues show them (when stacked 1 above the other).

I dug out a Beosystem 5000 promotional  brochure that shows them stacked  in a variety of ways 1 1 2 (record deck on top), 2 1 1 (record deck at end), 1 3 (tape deck on tis own), 4 in a row (though the photo cut out at 3.25!) and also as two pairs with space between! 

Interestingly the stack of 4 was BM, BC, CD50 and BG - but then these are photos for publicity rather than the real world with furnitre etc.  

Brian

Peter wrote:

Actually when I had my 7000 set up, I had two Beocords on the bottom, the BeogramCD and the Beomaster on top and the Beogram LP on the wall bracket.

That's the answer if you have a Beogram.  I could do with about 4 Beogram wall brackets of Steve (Sounds Heavenly)!

The B&O recommended way from the top down for the 5000 system is:

Beogram 5000

Beomaster 5000

Beogram CD50

Beocord 5000.

It allows you to have all the units open but still easily access all the sources! The 5500 system rather spoilt this by the cassette being directly under the CD tray of the CD50, but this was rectified when the CD5500 was released as the tray moved to the other side!