They are excellent! Good wide tape and fast tape speed makes for plenty of headroom and good quiet and dynamic recordings. On a 2400, the recording was much the same as source. However good tape  is tricky to find and the tapes are a pain to handle! You'll not have a problem using them but I doubt they will become over used!! Hate to say this, but you will be lucky if it works - they almost all need servicing - either the heads will be worn or the brakes will be shot. The service manual on site is a good one!

Two accessories that come to mind are a head demagnitizer and a tape splice kit.  'Checked eBay and saw them both on there. 

I've always owned a RTR (Pioneer RT 707).  No cassette player will give you that much play/record time on a single cassette.

Scuba;

I used one for years without problems. This was the European B&O model, DIN plug,  with an optional smoked plastic cover that snapped in over the reels. Before the Beo 5, and CD,  Mp3, etc. this was about the only way a HI-FI  enthusiast could sit back in his or her Eames chair, smoking jacket on, pipe in hand, a glass of good wine in the other, and enjoy 6 hours of non-stop music ( until nature called or the phone rang ). Purchased in Berlin, full DM price, + no discount.

As Peter points out above, you may find the hunt for parts and reel recording tape an " exercise " these days. If the heads are worn, or the machine in need of service the musical experience may sound a tad dull, speeding up, or slowing down. I recall swabbing the heads now and then with a drop of Glenlivet, or EToH2 for a good clean sound. Note too that the treasure boxes of reel-to-reel tapes one comes across now and then can, and do demagnitize over the years.

Thank you for ligthening my upp a litle on the B&O R2R subjekt,i cant wait to get it home an mounted on the wall, i have this  (maybe unhealty) urge to wallmount my vintage B&O items,and i saw in the users manual that i came whit some kind off wallbracket so i have to make one of those. I dont think it will be the main musicsource in the house so it want be a problem if i have to use some time hunting for parts.

Jon

Does anyone have experience with Beocord 2000 series K versio?

If you need to find R2R tapes and accessories you are best to go on German Ebay. It does nto take long to work out who are the regualr sellers, and you can add these to your favourites.

If you want to seach for these on EBAY uk then you need to use he German words, such as Tonbander etc for the keywords.

If anyone else want to put on other R2R keywords in German I am sure that would be helpful to the OP.

The Yahoo group 70sAudioMindset is a wealth of info on Reel to Reel, with many expert techs resident.

Also sources of new and NOS tape. Well worth joining for your requirements.

Menahem

I got a Beocord 1600.

Its working fine but I don't use it much.

There was 3 tapes with it. One is empty but the rest has music from when Beocord was new so I guess it was recorded at that time.

Another great tape place:

Friedmett wrote:

I got a Beocord 1600.

Its working fine but I don't use it much.

How come?

Friedmett wrote:

Another great tape place:

link

Thanks, I've been a member already.

Thanks to you all for info.