Martin is a generous man who has spent many hours helping me with various issues to do with my B&O collection, and this site would be very much the poorer without him. I suspect too that countless old pieces of B&O equipment would have otherwise ended up in the skip were it not for his skills and patience :)

[quote user="Puncher"] Put it this way - if you were to sponsor me Thruppence a yard, you'd get change from a Ten bob note! [/quote] ? Can anyone born before 1676 convert this into metric?

Free P&P makes them fairly priced to me given that they're signed and help a little towards the site :)

Thanks guys - now I'm a member of all the exclusive collector's clubs: Beomaster/Beolab 5000; Beomaster 6000 Quad, &; Beomaster 8000 :) Stereo light on tuner now working as I've fashioned an aerial and fiddled with the stereo sensitivity screw on the back of the Beomaster. Think I did well with this one as everything appears to be working

Won't they fall out like that?

The Breitling for Bentley watches are 'newer' ones Anders. I have one of these 'older' models: Not my photo BTW. One day I'l get round to taking a good shot.

Hi Mika I don't have the serial no. sticker on the Beomaster, but I can send the details of the Beolab to Frede as the sticker is still there. Which aerial socket should I use to try and get an FM signal? Not used to the choice! Need to work out too which way to turn the stereo screw on the back of the BM.

Thanks Jeff Stereo light works fleetingly, but there's poor FM reception in my flat, so I'm not sure whether I will ever see it lit in practice. I could always mess about with the stereo settings on the tuner I suppose...one for another day though I think. Just basking in the satisfaction of finally bagging one of the true collector's items

At last! After about five years of lusting after this, then being diverted by other rare B&O items that somehow seemed to usurp the Beolab 5000 set up at a given moment in time when I had some spare cash, I now have an early 31st birthday present :) For the time being it will have to live in my office at home, being used with some CX50s and hooked

Mine is previous incarnation of Leeds United FC crest. Got changed about a decade and a bit ago, much to my disappointment as this one is cool as funk. Previous avatar was a picture of the frieze 'ars longa vita brevis' built into the 'new' University of Sheffield Medical School. The frieze was taken from the Medical School's old