Just realized, that this thread hasn't been started on the new forum yet! I have changed the name from 'Your latest purchase' to 'Your latest addition' as I find that better. So here we go…
Guess what?! I've got even less space again! 😁 This time I got hold of quite some goodies!
Two weeks ago I was at a Bang & Olufsen arrangement in "Den Gamle By" - "The Old City", a open-air museum where you can see about 75 historical houses collected from all over Denmark, which have been dissembled and build up again there - in Aarhus, Denmark. The main subject was Bang & Olufsen in the 70’s. Ronny Kaas Mortensen, a 3rd generation Bang & Olufsen employee told about Bang & Olufsens history from the start till the late 70’s, and why Bang & Olufsen was one of the only surviving Danish factories during that time – Very interesting! In connection to that, a person who turned out to be one of the most important persons for Bang & Olufsen in the 70’s, was also there. Guess who? JACOB JENSEN! And I even got his autograph!
Jacob was also there back in May to record a DVD telling about his revolutionary design at the time - the DVD was released in connection to the arrangement. I bought one - of course! 😁
There is a recreated 70’s street in ‘Den Gamle By’, where there’s a Radio & TV shop, Pauls’ Radio, from the same period. I fell into conversation with a very kind person there, and we started to talk about different equipment, design and so on. I told him, that I've been collecting B&O equipment for a few years now. The conversation suddenly fell onto one of the BeoMaster 6000 4Channel and a BeoGram 6000, which were lined up in the shop. I told him, that I have a BeoGram 6000 at home and had been searching for a BeoMaster to go with it – Guess what? He had a faulty BeoMaster 6000 4Channel at home he wanted me to have! It is indeed in need of some TLC, but I love messing around with these lovely old things. And it simply looks beautiful together with my BeoGram 6000! Take a (good!) look at it – some of you will maybe notice something different. 😕
Tell me if you notice something. 😕
As you can see, there's only light in the right site of the BeoMaster, so that will need attention. I haven't had any loudspeakers connected to it yet, as I'm not sure how good the volume control works, but I can see the volume indicator move when I light on the display. Although giving me the BeoMaster 6000 4Channel is already a very kind gesture, he also wanted me to have this:
I will tell you in a second, why the next two pictures are interesting.
Inside the unit:
What you see on the picture, looks be to a normal MX2000 but... What you see on the picture is THE VERY FIRST! assembled MX EVER! The man was working for Bang & Olufsen at the time, and he told me it was the first one, and that he was the one who had assembled it. He called it a laboratory model - I think it means, that if there still had to be made corrections on the TV, it would be made at that stage.
And why I took pictures of the two lower corners?: The Beovirus infected would probably already have noticed, that the "Beovision MX2000" and "Bang & Olufsen" in each corner is missing - There's also no "Bang & Olufsen" in the middle, like on the later models. Furthermore there's no label on the back of it.
If this really is the first assembled MX (And I believe it is! - I really got the impression, that he knows the TV inside out. He also asked me, if I could be interested in the 10 cm thick briefcase with all the original diagrams he has at home - He will give it to me next time we meet), then it's pretty special! 😎
What's your latest addi(c)tion?
- Dennis
