For the fantastic Beolab 5000, I will do the following at the time of restoration:

Replace the black painted parts - sidepanels - back-front panel

Full restoration of the Wood top - rosewood / palisander part.

And the very important full restoration af the technical parts - replacing more than 100 electronic components.

The process will take about 3 month.

BUT.....................

This special Beolab 5000 will now be stored in my little showroom for other to enjoy and perhaps more important for me to enjoy, because it is really such a apeical BEOLAB 5000 WITH FULL DOCUMENTATION.

I will mention, the Beomaster 5000 is really as beautiful and with full documentation like the Beolab 5000 and I am happy to own that one too.

The reason I dont restore it now. This is because I have so many very nice orders for customers to do and I never restore anything before I have an order from  a customer.

/Frede

Quality never goes out of style, does it?

Looking forward to the rest of this thread, as a very satisfied owner of a Beolab 5000.

Already a great thread. Looking forward to the rest of it! 🤒

classic wrote:

BUT distortion, this is really much too high, although the Beolab 5000 has a pleasant sound and really don’t seems to distort more than 1%. This is one of the “hidden problems “ where you could be very happy to use your Beolab 5000, but not knowing – the sound could be really improved by a full restoration.

I've received my Beolab 5000 restored by Classic Audio at Friday last week. It was like christmas... ;-) The weekend was reserved for listening some vinyl. The difference in sound before and after Frede's work is just unbelievable! It's probably the best investment i did for a long time...

I received my Beolab/Beomaster 5000 last month, along with my Beovox 5000s, Beovox 2500s (4 of them), and stereowidth box (along with Beovox 3000).  It is a truly wonderful system.  I feel at times as if I should donate them to a museum, but that of course won't happen!

classic wrote:

I have now arranged reproduction of the alu-frontpanel....

How does that work? Do you cleanup and reprint the original graphics or actually make the part up?

I use the original panels. All text and anodization are removed and the panels are re-polished. The a new anodization including the text are processed on the panels. Thats all 🙂 - - -  Thats VERY expensive 😂

/Frede

Hi Frede,

Congratulations Frede with your very special Beolab 5000 ! 

Thanks for sharing all the documentation and the history of the set.

I've also found an interesting set.

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 Rudy

Tell us more! (And clearly, there was a find on ebay.de!)