Definitely a moving target here.  My vote would be for any design past the 5000 | 5500 | 6500 | 7500 era as B&O Vintage.

Wood will come back.  Mark my words.

Very soon vintage will mean everything made before digital storage.  :-)

FlintIronstag wrote:

Wood will come back.  Mark my words.

It already did - see A9 legs - but most folks seem to think it is totally out of place as B&O has always been glass + aluminum 😕

I'll rephrase... anything that is old and made with wood is vintage in my books

I'd say anything that is pre masterlink Beo1000/Beo4 - and then that will become vintage once the new standard is common spread - although B&O thankfully do make things backwardly compatible - so the line between vintage and modern blurs.

I seriously think the "wood" comments are correct. If you take when B&O stopped using wood or veneers on products it also marks the introduction of powerlink and the Beolink 1000 remote codes. BM6000 and 8000 are vintage but BM5500 is modern. The 5000 was sort of available with wood veneer so that gets round that one which other wise is a bit in the middle. All the uniphase speakers are vintage.  Redlines and Pentas still look great in modern settings.

My preferance is for stuff from the early 60's or thereabouts so really vintage should be anything with enough valves in that you can warm the room whilst listening to music!

FlintIronstag wrote:

Wood will come back.  Mark my words.

According to my uncle, who used to sell B&O, one of the selling points of buying B&O, particularly through the 70/80s, was that B&O products were mostly made out of wood (thus, solid). Even the TVs. There's some truth in that, I guess, but some users still believe it's true in 2013. At least two people have told me that the BL9's or BL5's are heavy "because they are made from wood"!

Simple: Anything older than me (or you).