Privat survey of Beolab 5000 - Beomaster 5000 producs

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classic (archived)
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 03:32 GMT
#1741478

I am trying to find out the production qty of the classic Beolab 5000 type 5303 and the Beomaster 5000 type 2005 of 1967-72. This is possible by knowing / identifying the serial number and the series of the products.

I hope you owners of these wonderful products will help by sending me the informations of your products

Please look at the label of your product and send me:

  • Product: [Beolab 5000 or Beomaster 5000]
  • Serial number [5 digit]
  • Serie [2 digit]

It looks like this on your product and I need the information like

  • Beolab 5000
  • Serial no: 46901
  • Serie: 06

I do hope to recieve a lot of product info and I will afterwards show the result here of course. At this moment I have the identity of some 70 pairs of BL/BM 5000.

/Frede

Here you see a typical label:

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Dillen
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 05:32 GMT
#1741479

I too have collected serial numbers and other info for many years.
It's very hard to tell the number of items of a certain type produced by
looking only at the serial numbers, simply because the serial numbers are
seemingly not given as a continous range to a specific model but rather
in the order they are produced or planned, - that is across different
models that were built at (or nearly at) the same time.
Starting with serial number 1 in the 1920's, reaching apprx serial number 1500
in early 1930, 10000 items reached in 1937 and so on.
When close to one million items were produced, it seems the serial number counter
was reset starting again from 10000 in late 1964 (supposingly when transistor
models got introduced).
As no reliable info regarding this was (to my knowledge) ever released, it will have to
remain a guess though.

F.e. Beolab 5000 (5303)
Serial numbers 57648 & 79322 are both Beolab 5000 but
72338 is a Beomaster 700K and 78660 is a Beomaster 3000

From recent repairs, I can add:

Beolab 5000 type 5303 serie 02 66355 (Teak)
Beolab 5000 type 5303 serie 10 57527 (Palisander)
Beolab 5000 type 5303 serie 10 57648 (oak)
Beomaster 5000 type 2005 serie 9 12002 (Palisander)
Beomaster 5000 type 2005 serie 3 62432 (teak)

I have several pairs in my own collection, I will be happy to give you
the numbers when I get around to unpack them from storage.

Martin

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Peter
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 08:21 GMT
#1741480

You have mine! 😂

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovox.png Beovox.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-2.png Beosound-2.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-Portal.png Beoplay-Portal.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolit.png Beolit.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
Beocenter-2.png Beocenter-2.png
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Dillen
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 08:40 GMT
#1741481

Looking a bit closer at this together with Frede, it could be that
serial numbers are a continuos range within each production run (serie).
Still, it's strange that serial numbers from serie 9 are considerably lower than
those of serie 3...

Martin

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tournedos
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 09:03 GMT
#1741482

Mine are

  • Beomaster s/n 16543 serie 01
  • Beolab s/n 66224 serie 02

...not from the same place, but both are teak (I guess - how do you tell between teak / palisander / rosewood anyway?).

DI
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Dillen
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 09:11 GMT
#1741483

Woodsorts:

Martin

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RUDYV (archived)
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:08 GMT
#1741484

 

Mine is

 

Beomaster 5000 type  2005  serie 8   s/n  51949  (teak)

 

Rudy

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Posted July 31, 2009 at 15:28 GMT
#1741485

This is really great.

I have now 3 replyes and all members expanded my list, which mean a more correct info of the produced qty.

Thank you very much, Martin , Rudyv, Tournedos for your help.

/Frede

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Posted July 31, 2009 at 15:30 GMT
#1741486

Peter wrote:

You have mine! 😂

 

Peter

We agreed your product identities are a deep secret ! 👍

/Frede

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RUDYV (archived)
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Posted July 31, 2009 at 16:43 GMT
#1741487

Hi Frede,

 

Here are  some more details of my beomaster 5000.

 

Rudy

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