the BM6000 quadro. Amazing design and sound for those years. especially with P beovox wall speakers and beogram..

There are many more than I like such as a BM3400 

Evan wrote:

Why go through all the work of beating up a mirrored panel when it is just going to get painted anyway? Seems like a lot of senseless effort.

Have a set of 3500 (grey panels) which I will paint white.

Will vote for Beoset 6000 (quad) and 4500 with mirror panels..🙂

Tough choise, but I'll choose the 8000 as I absolutely love the clean headroom of that amplifier!

70's Beomaster 2000 playing through S45's is the most used and favoured system in my household. Using a Pinnacle/Roku Soundbridge for Internet radio connected to the tape input. The BM 2000 was effectively rebuilt for me by Martin (Dillen).

The speakers and amp seem perfectly matched, and stations with high quality streaming like Radioparadise.com are absolutely crystal clear (and rather superior to the alternative of using the FM stations.)

The downside to using the Soundbridge is that it seems to re-set itself rather too often, requiring you to re-enter your router password, and also defaulting to the manufacturers original pre-sets, losing any that you configured yourself.

Beolab 5000 remains something I aspire to.

Graham

Having the polled systems and using the keyword: desirable... There is only one vote: BL5000!

casdave wrote:

Seems odd that the 5000 system has more and better options for connectivity than the others, since it was the first.

It's not that odd, if you look at the B&O history. Often the early models have been the best - and then some 'bean counters' came and said 'how can we reduce costs?'. Then they 'downgrade'... remove the phono sockets etc. -or use cheaper components. An example is the Beocenter 9000 range.
The 9500 was an upgrade of the 9000 -then came the 'downgrade' with the 9300: Cheaper CD-mech - cheaper (and lower quality) tape section. Ending up with an even worse tape mechanism in the last models.

In case of the 5000 system (if you are referring to the 80's models) there was another reason for removing the phono sockets: They added Powerlink sockets on the 5500 -so there was simply no space for phono sockets anymore.

The 5500 never had powerlink and to make matters worse the lineout was redirected and sourced from the output amplifier and attenuated as opposed to the 5000 that was sourced from the pre-out stage. Not sure why they made this move as it would have been better to drive the newly released penta via line level rather than speaker level. I suspect the real reason would be that the line level would have sounded better than speakerlink which they needed for data and links... I don't know can't see it being a technical reason tbh!

There are a number of very desirable B&O Vintage units that I would enjoy having. Until I got a Beogram 3000, I was using a Bg4000 with my Beolab 5000 amplifier. Stunning good looks all around, and excellent sound. I must have managed to tweak my Bg4000 to near perfection, as the sound was such a delight from it.

I do have a Beosystem 6500, now in my bedroom, but the Beolab/Beomaster 5000 together with the Beogram 3000 have become an addiction. I've now made an arrangement with Frede to have a second Beolab 5000 refurbished, to be able to run them as monobloque amplifiers (using the center channel, Frede informed me, and one of the Beolab 5000s serving as preamplifier).

I will connect the LINE OUT from the 2nd Beolab 5000 to separate active subwoofers, one for each channel. 😁
Should be something to look forward to.

This is my favorite room in the house.

Not a poor man's room either... Superb system! We easily recognize the Technics King reel-to-reel of course, but the speakers?

chartz wrote:

but the speakers?

Gradient Helsinki 👍

Funky speakers, and not even horribly expensive for what they are capable of!