Hello Martin, I have just accidentally bought a 900k. It was an ebay thing. I put 80 euros on it to see how i'd go. It was late, I was drunk, you may know how these things happen. The only other bidder suspiciously brought it up to about 2 euros less than my maximum bid but there you go. After freight it's going to cost me about $300 Australian which maybe isn't such a bad thing. I haven't received it yet but the exterior isn't perfect but I have a good cabinet maker who can make it right again.

That aside, I just fully read the description of the thing and it hasn't got the stereo decoder.

Do you know if there are any of these left in captivity anywhere?

Hey Guy, I have also just bought a 900k and have found since that it is an early model without the stereo decoder.

Do you know where I may find one?

That said, I'll probably just hook my phone up to it and listen to streaming radio.

Thanks for the tip on the bulbs, it's probably going to need them.

Thanks for getting back to me Guy, yes I thought so too.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Bang-Olufsen-Beomaster-900-M-/151251235393?ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:DE:1123

what do you think about this one? i have asked the seller buy i'm not sure they understand what a the decoder is.

Too expensive for what you need - be patient and a cheaper one will come along!  I bought mine for £10, with decoder!

Yeah thanks for the advice. I feel that 70-80 euros was too much to pay for the functioning one I bought as it is.

Unfortunately it's the tyranny of distance for us down under because the freight costs are always very expensive and then, unless the items are packaged extremely well they tend to arrive in one or two pieces more than when they left. The 3400 in my picture has a crack in the timber frame and was not functioning when it arrived from Austria. It was packaged terribly. Maybe when it was first put in the box and the materials were packaged around it, it may have been sound, but after being tossed through several hands on the long trip to Northern New South Wales, Australia, I mean, it was heavy, it came with a matching (and useless) beocord which just turned into a dead weight to smash the 3400 with inside the box.

Suffice to say, they are fairly robust things though the left channel on the 2ndary tape input doesn't work, I don't get a stereo light for FM Stereo and the preset station function is just boken, the 3400 takes the signal from the Pro-ject DAC and turns it into some nice sounds through the 4 beovox ( I think they're 3700s) I have from the same period. I have a beogram of some description that came with a 1974 Beomaster 2000 (which also came with a useless beocord) but I can't be bothered with the $400 plus for a stylus from that guy in New York.

One of these days (once I get my collection of Mercedes Benz W108's into a shed I'm building with timber from my property and my W115 on the road, and the upstairs part of my house complete) I am going to send the 2000 to Menahem to get him to do a rebuild on it. I actually regret being sucked into buying the 900k instead of spending the money on the 2000, but as I said, I was drunk, it was late, it was impulsive. That said I have a place for the 900 in my office, fingers crossed it arrives in one piece!

Update, the speakers are all S45 TYPE 6302 - the early type that have the back set up so you can hang them from a solid screw in the wall, not a stand.

the tyranny of distance