Bang and Olufsen Beogram 2000

my dad brought the Bang and Olufsen Beogram 2000 in 1976 for £500 ihave just set it up with the beomaster 2000 and it still sounds fantastic but i think the drive belt is on its way out!. I was told only 1500 were ever sold but who knows! it still in pretty good nick but im worried about the turntable

I have a Bang and Olufsen Beogram 2000. It is the best quality sound I have ver heard and anyone who hear this says the same. It led many friends to purchase the system or speakers. After almost 30 years it still outmatches anyhting on the market for looks andis in the Museum of modern Art. Was the first to use optic fibre and a stylus whilst costly has only been replaced once in 30 years due to a child pulling out the diamond. A most beuatiful machine, I have never found one for sale and I dont know of anyone who owns a B&O from the 1980's or pre who ever had a break down, these things run forever.

Many friends afer listenintg to crisp natural sound purchased Bang and Olufsen Beogram 2000 speakers to compliment their sound systems, often people in the music industry.

It has never faultered and I can still pump the sound.

Using some free software called audacity you can convert your records to WAV or MP3 format for use on ipods and such.

The only problems have been caused by vandalism not by mechanical failure such as nieces pulling the plugs or ripping them, not realising they are angled.

My system has travelled thousands of miles and still looks like new, only now are modern systems catching up.

I do need to be able to get my system serviced after someone pulled the tape deck appart to see how it worked and the other vandalism was the ripping of plugs which caused one side left or right to fail, but it works fine if I plug it into the pc through the spare tape output sockets, using this I hav connected many additonal things over the years.

Mny dont know what the beosystem 2000 is anymore when I go into a B&O store and they never get secondhand ones in the repair and resale shop as they dont break down, at least not ones made pre 1990. Remote controls are just now reaching the point B&O offered 30 year ago. It should be noted that through B&O design of non resinating plastic we saw the revolution of sound systems shrinking as speakers could not handle the flimsy plastic previously.

Ah, the good old days of vinyl and analogue systems. I have equipment that is still working that I'm afraid to use a lot because I can't get parts anymore. I simply hate the audio equipment we find today. The Biogram 2000 was a great turntable that didn't trash my records. I have records that are over 50 years old that I still play from time to time and they still sound good after all these years. But like I said just try and find parts of this stuff anymore. Actually for me half the fun of the equipment I have was fixing it. Man do I miss all those great electronic stores!!!!

This Bang and Olufsen Beogram 2000 turntable is ancient, it is approximately 30 years old now. But mine is in perfect working order (apart from a bit of motor noise). It is a fully automatic belt drive system, with hardly any adjustable parts, save for pitch and tone arm balance. The platter is simply a solid disc of machined metal with rubber spikes on which the record rests, the rest of the top of the deck is made of the same material, giving it an extremely sleek, hi tech, look. The smoked plastic dust cover and the decks wooden plinth are its only concessions to early 70's design, the rest is timeless. Where it really counts though, is in the sound, this machine is quite astonishing. It can comfortably outclass my Sony CDP-XB930 cd player and my Project Debut turntable by several orders of magnitude at every turn. The bass, the treble, everything, is simply wonderful, it pounds out the latest dance 12"s and whispers the most delicate string concertos with equal skill and passion. It is very much a case of iron fist and velvet glove. The only annoyance is the antiquated DIN plug connector, which means i have to use an amplifier of similar vintage (Rotel RX-202) as a pre-amp. Getting hold of one of these turntables could prove to be somewhat of a challenge though (found mine in a car boot sale). They dont make them like this anymore...