In terms of the record player the 611RG usually came with a B&O 42VF rather than the BG1000 put in the later 900RGs. However, some of these were also Garrard changers instead.

I would say that the 611RGs are rarer than a 900RG, at least here in the UK I see a few 900RGs a year for sale whereas I don't think I have ever seen a 611RG. It may be different on the continent however and I'm sure someone with more knowledge can help here!

Ben

Hi and welcome to Beoworld!

I never heard about Beomaster 611RG. I know the model with name Grand Prix 611RG. If you meant this 611RG, the difference between it and Beomaster 900RG is quite big. The 611RG had built in big tube stereo receiver (also known as Grand Prix 611 Moderne), TV set and turntable Beogram 42VF (or 610/611) as Ben said.

Beomaster 900RG came latter and was also present in two versions: Beomaster 900RG Compact or Beomaster 900RG De Luxe. Both were without TV set and with built in transistor receiver Beomaster 900 and Beogram 1000. My favourite is a Beomaster 900RG Compact becouse of its nice slight design and of course beautiful brasilian rosewood (there were a teakwood version too).

If you have a picture of this "Beomaster 611RG" I would be very happy to see it. It could be something very rare I didn't see here jet.

And here the pictures of 3 Versions I mentioned:

Grand Prix 611RG

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Beomaster 900RG De Luxe

Beomaster 900RG Compact

Regards, Theomaster

Hi Theomast!

tnx for your reply and your explination, much appreciated!

Below picture of the unit, Looking forward in finding iut what you guys think!

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I guess seller might be wrong.....

Any thoughts anyone?

Tnx Beaker, but I'm based on the other side of the channel (NL)

Hi again,

I made a little "B&O-1960's-research" at the weekend and maybe the seller didn't make mistake with the name of his RG ("Beomaster 611RG").

If you look here:

/forum/beogram/can-anyone-identify-this#post-2221822

you can see that we already had short discussion about very similar (I would say same) model here.

First presumption was that the turntable in this specimen was not the original one and it was built in latter. But now we have the second one with the same "configuration" of the turntable on the left side. Maybe there was a version called Beomaster 611RG between Grand Prix 611RG and Beomaster 900RG. It must be made in limited series and would be very rare one.

Unfortunately the guy who started the thread I am posting here didn't answer and we haven't got the information from him.

Maybe your seller could provide you a picture from the back side with the label (if it is still present)...

In this case you could acquire very rare version of RG. Technically there are no important differences between the early version of the Beomaster 900 (to bee seen on your pictures, with grey front) and the latter one with the black front. I think only the transistor types were updated and eventually the stereo decoder is not present (it was an extra option). The 42VF (or the Beogram 609/610 version) are very stable and good sounding TT's if serviced and the BG1000 must not have bee the big step.

The rest is a optics. You have to know which model you prefer and try to find really good one.

Waiting for the news about this rare beast  ...👍