Marco's latest vintage marvel....

Indeed, dude. I'm reading it now! ;)

Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife :rolleyes:

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Indeed, dude. I'm reading it now! ;)

Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife :rolleyes:

Marco.

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Agreed! I have a B&O 1700 tuner, bought purely for it's looks. Not only does it look gorgeous but it sounds very good as well; somewhere between a Leak Troughline and a Quad FM3, so no slouch!

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Originally Posted by Marco

Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife :rolleyes:

Marco.

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:steam: :mental: :upyours:

Adam (who has never tried Cristal and never been to Tenerife but has more than a few choice items of modern B&O!)

Ha - I knew there'd be some daftee here who bought the current stuff! :lolsign:

Marco.

P.S Well seen you know how to spell 'Cristal' (now amended accordingly)! :ner: :lol:

Old B&O was genuinely good and I fondly remember the Beolab 5000 integrated amp (as suggested in the pic) as happily driving some Linn Sara's to a very high standard. Continental gear had to drive a compulsory 4 Ohm load back then (DIN standard?) so the power supplies had to be up to it. Tuners designed there also had to be sensitive and selective too and B&O and Tandberg (I'm sure there are other greats too) seemed to do a wonderful job that the old UK tuners couldn't get anywhere near.

Actually Marco, a fettled 'Lab 5000 would be an excellent match to the Ditton 66's in one of your many available rooms should your proposed move take place...:) A fully serviced 'Gram 3000 with SP12 pickup (or an extremely rare Beogram 3000 with TD124!) would set it off nicely.

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Originally Posted by DSJR

I believe those Goodmans Minimax's were designed, at least in part, by ATC's Billy Woodman, who also "did" the Gale 401's I believe.

I have another cheapo memory-flood on the back burner and just missed some last week ;)

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[EDIT] I understand I was in error with the above comments. The Goodmans were of course the MAXIMS from the late 60's, the Minimax's being the Hungarian babies from a few years later.

I also understand from Richard Dunn that Ira Gale himself designed the 401 speakers, so apologies to all for the mis-information :doh:

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Originally Posted by Barry

Get a Transcriptor T/T Marco and you'll be obliged to buy some B&O electronics to go with it (see the photo)! :)

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Those B&O's are Beolab '5000' Amplifier & Beomaster '5000' Tuner

Them's the ones and there's a Dutch? site dedicated to restoring them :)

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Originally Posted by Andre

Those B&O's are Beolab '5000' Amplifier & Beomaster '5000' Tuner

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Don't they look just gorgeous? :stalks: And, from what I remember, didn't sound too bad either.

They are nice, my fav B&O's