new member seeking information on Beolit colours.

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Good day to you all.

Forty years ago, as a young trainee, I starved for three months to afford a lilac Beolit 400, the first expensive and beautiful thing I ever owned. I forget what happened to it. Since then, there has been a black 505,(stolen) a black 600, (DBR by a clumsy girlfriend,)  and, for years, a cream coloured 600 which was not the best I ever had. About a month ago, I bought two 600s for spares and constructed a very nice red one from the bits. But I still hankered after the lilac 400, I had in my youth. The trouble with the internet is that you don't have to wait to find things. All you need is to trawl the Danish web sites and within 24 hours, I had bought a blue 505, and a lilac 707  which I had sent to a friend in Kolding to collect when we meet up again.

Then I heard about the curry coloured casings and found a dealer with a curry coloured 600 and a lilac 400.

So now there were six  and I am missing a grey one, a black one, a beige one .

I still need a 700 and a 500 and then I should have one of each model and one of each colour.

Or so I thought .

I have heard of  burgundy, orange, yellow and green covers but have never  seen pictures of any of them.

Does anybody know the full palette of colours, please? 

 

Hi and welcome to Beoworld.

The best I can suggest is you head over to

Thank you Stonk. The problem is that none of them list the grey cover which is known to exist, so there may be others missing from Beocentral.

Beolit 600 was sold as "Colouradio" with the choice of black, white, red, curry and violet.
Other Beolit models were available in (dusty-) blue and, as you mention, (grey'ish) beige.

Martin

There is certainly a grey available on the 505/707 series. I have heard of a short wave 600 model with a bandspread by the rod aerial. has anybody ever seen one? I haven't and would like to know where they were sold.

According to the manuals, however, the grey model is somebody's spray can special, leaving

Red, white, black, violet, curry, blue and beige.

The two sets bought from Bremdal Radio were cosmetically ok but, considering that they were supposed to have been through the service department, disappointing with one completely bad speaker on one and the other being so badly misaligned to cover up a fault in the AM section that I am still having trouble getting to the bottom of  it. Fortunately, I have far better skills than their haervaerker and access to the sort of equipment I'll need to sort it out but if you haven't, give these people a miss.

I always considered the so-called "beige" model grey.

The speaker is a weak point, - the magnet often comes lose in transport, it snaps to one side and completely locks the voicecoil.

Martin

Hi Tomshep and welcome to Beoworld.

The Beolit 600 Dual SW exists but it is very hard to find.

Mine comes from Denmark but sometimes some of them can be seen on BidorBuy, an South African site.

There are some differences in comparision with the usual Beolits 600. Instead of LW and MW, there are 2 SW bands and a further slider near the aerial to make a fine tuning on SW. Its aerial is much longer than the normal ones on the usual Beolits 600 and the top of the aerial is bigger and chromed.

Good luck to find this very rare model !

Marc

Another photo :

These are fantastic radios - Tim Jarman did some work on repairing the speakers which are an unusual size and for which there is no easy replacement. He had quite a few including the lilac one. I have heard of fake lilac ones and one of our members had one spray painted a very fetching royal blue - I did buy a 600 with the idea of doing the same but it was in such good condition, I couldn't bring myself to do it!!

The Beolit 1000 is a half way house between the older 800 and the Colour Radios but has the SW bands as standard. One comes in wood or goatskin leather finishes though. I think the Colour radios are better - I have a 1000 so no owners bias! 😁

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