Of course you may.

Martin

should be top 50 :) and there will still be more. BL6000 was groundbreakingly original and timeless, it has set a standard 15 years after it was designed. BeoLab 1 is another staggering piece of design, as is the bizarre-at-the-time BeoVision 5, while the BeoVision 8 is completely underrated because the design is ahead of its time

Re: The Beolit 39
Just realized that it's actually NOT one of my own photos but
it is definitely a photo of the exact same radio.
Since the foto is from a danish website, I suppose it must be the owners own photo
from before the restoration then.
Of course, this also means that I am not the one to ask permission to use the photo.
You are free to use any of mine; /forum/general-discussion-and-questions/bs-moment---jukebox-and-static-ip-address

Martin

My list would look something like this:

#1 - Beocenter 9500

#2 - Beovision 10

#3 - Beolab 4500 (not the 3000, since I prefer the green display)

#4 - Beosound 3000/3200 and Beocenter 2300 (without the tape recorder)

#5 - Beolab 5

#6 - Beolink 7000

#7 - Beolab 8000

#8 - Beosystem 6500/7000

#9 - Beolab Penta

#10 - Beocom 4

I could probably put the A8 Earphones and a Beolit 600 somewhere on the list as well, but ten products are enough.

My own personal top ten would be slightly different - but one thing I noted was Beocom 1600 was in, yet beocom 2 is out?

Calvin wrote:

Wow, I havn't come across the 5RG Radiogram before, that's an incredible piece of design.  Even if it was released now it would look pretty good. Sums up why I buy B&O

(Thanks Wasti, it's good when people unexpectedly learn stuff like this)

The 5 RG steel is fascinating. It was actually the basis for a paper of mine in autumn quarter last year. B&O also made a stereo version of this. There are a lot of cues shared between the 5RG and the work of Marcel Breuer (mostly his chair).

Definitely my favorite of the original Peter & Svend designs.

BTW, very suprised at the absence of the BeoMaster/BeoLab 5000 combo.

evman140 wrote:

BTW, very suprised at the absence of the BeoMaster/BeoLab 5000 combo.

Oh, that made me think of another one... the second BL5000 -the mondrian panels!

burantek wrote:

evman140 wrote:

BTW, very suprised at the absence of the BeoMaster/BeoLab 5000 combo.

Oh, that made me think of another one... the second BL5000 -the mondrian panels!

Yes, I agree. Major real estate those things need!

I knew that and endless stream of suggestion would come out of this thread... As B&O tends to try really really hard in the design department 😂

evman140 wrote:

Calvin wrote:

Wow, I havn't come across the 5RG Radiogram before, that's an incredible piece of design.  Even if it was released now it would look pretty good. Sums up why I buy B&O

(Thanks Wasti, it's good when people unexpectedly learn stuff like this)

The 5 RG steel is fascinating. It was actually the basis for a paper of mine in autumn quarter last year. B&O also made a stereo version of this. There are a lot of cues shared between the 5RG and the work of Marcel Breuer (mostly his chair).

Definitely my favorite of the original Peter & Svend designs.

EH!? The Hyperbo 5RG Steel was really more of a design exercise from what I understand - though a very beautiful one. I think maybe only single figures were made at an astronomical cost. Only two are known to exist in any shape and the one in the Struer museum is a remanufactured one. It appears in the B&O book Sound and Vision and Spark to Icon though in the book it has round black bakelite knobs. Thse have been changed to the original style square chrome buttons I seem to remember. (I thought I had taken some pictures but cannot find them!)

A stereo version would be most unlikely as there were no stereo sources! Beomuse did do an article on a 'later model' witha CD player and stereo but I believe this was probably released on the first of April!

Until recently, the sound from the Hyperbo 5RG Steel was provided by a small Sony Walkman in the draw on the left!!