About beolover:
The Beocord 5000: A prime example of Jacob Jensen's iconic designs.
I usually blog about my Bang & Olufsen 'adventures' at http://beolover.blogspot.com. The blog gives a chronological record of my activities with the aim to make my insights and experiences available to the community at large and to give my customers a record of their restoration project. With the beolover website I attempt to summarize and categorize my blog posts in combination with other information to offer detailed repair and restoration information in a more organized format. I am always interested in learning about new issues and challenges with restoring and maintaining B&O equipment. Please, feel free to send me an email at [email protected] if you are trying to figure out how to repair your vintage B&O, or if you came across some interesting 'failure modes' of B&O equipment, I will be more than happy to hear from you and discuss/help if I can. I also perform restorations and repairs on B&O equipment for less technically inclined vintage B&O fans on contract basis.
So, before you decide to throw out a not-working B&O unit because you cannot get it serviced anymore in your town, send me an email. I may well be able to give your B&O a new lease on life. I started working on B&O products as a hobby when a Beomaster 8000 that I bought locally on Craigslist emitted smoke from the heat sinks, and a call for help to the local B&O dealer yielded an amused chuckle, and an offer to show me their latest $10k equipment as a replacement. The few remaining electronics repair shops in my town also declined to work on it or gave me the feeling they were not qualified for this task.
So, before you decide to throw out a not-working B&O unit because you cannot get it serviced anymore in your town, send me an email. I may well be able to give your B&O a new lease on life. I started working on B&O products as a hobby when a Beomaster 8000 that I bought locally on Craigslist emitted smoke from the heat sinks, and a call for help to the local B&O dealer yielded an amused chuckle, and an offer to show me their latest $10k equipment as a replacement. The few remaining electronics repair shops in my town also declined to work on it or gave me the feeling they were not qualified for this task.
Beosystem 6000 composed of Beomaster 6000 (2702), Beogram 4002, and Beocord 5000
Due to my electrical engineering background I was able to repair the unit and then fully restored it. At that point I was hooked, and I bought many more B&Os on ebay and fixed them up. Our house has become a B&O museum of sorts and I repaired/restored some of their best known products such as the Beomaster 8000, Beogram 8000, Beocord 9000, Beomaster 6000, Beogram 4004, the flat panel speakers Beovox 3000 and Beolab 4500, Beomaster 1900, and a Beomaster 3000-2 with matching Beovox 3702 speakers. The B&O restoration 'holy grail', the Beosystem 6000 'trifecta' of Beomaster 6000 Quad, Beocord 5000 and Beogram 6000 is my current project.
