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I will try to get it running at some point and test the different functions. I had it powered up through my variac just before the pictures were taken, but unfortunately I can't get it to eject the drawer, so the belt probably needs replacing.
I only need to find a Beogram 5000 with red labels now to make a complete Beosystem 5000 with red labels. Guess I could use my Beogram 3000 that says Beogram 5005 on the lid until then. 😁
/Dennis
After driving a couple of hours this evening through heavy wind and rain, I spent the last of my budget for buying B&O this year...! 😉
So another Beomaster 4401 has turned up! Cosmetically it need a little TLC; the top is not sitting straight, the wood could use some oil, maybe a light sanding and the aluminium has a few marks. Will see if I will leave it at correcting the top and leave the rest as is with respect for its history. According to the seller it should work.
The rest doesn't have red labels, but I was missing a normal Beomaster 6000 4 Channel and the Beocord 5000 was just part of the deal. Cosmetically they look OK, but I don't know the condition of the internals. The M100s I bought the other day didn't come with stands, but these did. They need a good deal of work done to them; the fillers are not installed but are included and have been refoamed (but may need redoing), the dust caps of the 12" drivers are both pressed in, the frets need new fabric and one is broken in the middle, most of the pins are broken and then one them has some damage to the cabinet where one of the pins normally goes. So there's work for quite a few rainy days. 🙂
/Dennis
A 4401 is a nice find Dennis, well done !
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Very nice finds indeed.
There is at least one more CD50 of that type. And as a curiousity it was also the version that was first shown in the catalogues.
Martin
And another one :)
This french guy here has a stunning example
Very nice finds Dennis! I'm not jealous of that 4401 at all...
Very nice finds Dennis! I'm not jealous of that 4401 at all...
Oh, man, another Precious! Me wants it!
I'm also very exited to have found one, and I'm really eager to get it home, have a closer look at it and get it cleaned up. At the moment it's standing at my father in-law until I have somewhere to put it at my mom's house where (most of) my collection still is. I'm in the middle of renovating the utility room in her house, so the house is quite a mess at the moment and not really ideal to store even more stuff in.
Can't wait to have my own house one day and be able to have my collection on display. The black 4401 will definitely get a place of honor together with my silver 4401.
Btw. for some reason I seemed to remember that the protope Beocord reel-to-reel for the Beosystem 6000 was named Beocord 6000, but looking at a picture I took of the one at Struer Museum, I realized that it was in fact named Beocord 5000. Still strange that they continued with that when making the Beocord 5000 casette deck even after making a preproduction run where the units were named Beocord 6000. Made a quick search on 'Beocord 5000 reel-to-reel' and found this:
Found this nice BeoLink 5000 - I like the 2-way connection with the BeoMaster 6500, and I was finally able to set the time of the Master so it reads correctly on a BeoLab 3500. Also it has a Phono button: I hooked an AirPort express to that input.
I think it looks even a bit more refined than a Beo4.
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the only thing is that I believe my LG plasma tv jams the signals of it. When the TV is off, the remote works fine, when it's on: no go. My Beo4 works fine then. Time for a new TV 😁!
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