Hi All,

After much searching on and off for the past year I'm very close to getting a BeoVox RedLine strap replacement as close to the original as possible, as you know these are often broken or missing.

I'm calling on the help of current RedLine owners who have the original straps intact. I'm basically trying to clarify the correct printed wording for the different speaker models, if you have a pair of either :

RL1000

RL2000

RL6000

RL7000

All the models where the 'red' stripe around the case frame became 'silver', did B&O change the colour of the printing on the straps to match the stripe?

As all the ones I have of the above seem to have no wording at all. But I know for a time replacements were available without wording.

So just incase anyone does still have some originals could you please confirm what the printing on the strap says and what colour the printing is. For example I have 2 versions for the RL140s one says 'RL140' the other says 'REDLINE 140'

Your help would be much appreciated

Have a good weekend

Cheers

Jay

I have a pair of black (silver line) RL6000's and they have no lettering whatsoever.

Can't be sure if the straps are original, but judging from the rest of the lot I got there, the PO's wouldn't have paid a dime to replace them. Silver lettering on a light grey strap doesn't sound too plausible either, so perhaps B&O just dropped the lettering altogether with the new colours to avoid having several strap types in the inventory. That would support having only "blank" replacements as well.

Original RL60's, owned since new -

Sounds like a nice project !

I currently have a pair of white design RL140's here.
They have a silver line around the cabinets (where the more common black speakers have a red line).
The straps read "RED LINE 140" in the same red as the others.

Martin

Dillen:

Sounds like a nice project !

I currently have a pair of white design RL140's here.
They have a silver line around the cabinets (where the more common black speakers have a red line).
The straps read "RED LINE 140" in the same red as the others.

Martin

Hi Martin,

Ive never seen the 140s in white

sounds like i may have to do you a bespoke set with Black lettering if you think they would suit them more

When will the straps be available? Any idea of the selling price yet?

BenSA:

When will the straps be available? Any idea of the selling price yet?

Price hasnt been a factor yet im just trying to get as close a match as possible and figure out every printing variation

Im still working on the text for these,

can anyone tell me if RL45 reads either RL 45 or RED LINE 45 on the originals ?

thanks

Picture of my RL60.2 and same for RL45.2

Dunno if this helps Jay, but this is how the original straps on my 60.2's look like. I presume these are a very early pair as the crossover has been built on chipboard, the later ones have real PCB's as far as I know.

thanks for your quick replys, however its the 45 im stuck on, i have the .2s

Great minds and all that, Leslie The print on mine is only 19 mm wide.

I should add that my RL6000s don't have any print at all.

tournedos:

Great minds and all that, Leslie The print on mine is only 19 mm wide.

I should add that my RL6000s don't have any print at all.

bet you dont know what the font is?

ive been working on the font for 4 hours now

That's difficult... looks like Univers somethng to me but not at all clearly (Univers ExtendedPS seems to fit the digits, but not the R).

I had two pairs of RL6000s, both piano black with silver stripe. Neither had any lettering on the straps from brand new.

hi Jay

The 2 I have here, broken straps, the left pieces, clear (milky) soft PVC.

The font ? maybe Beofont. browse the forum it has been here before.

Did you find out about hot stamping or screen printing, the pics here on this thread looks like hot stamping.

Come to think about it, i would like red straps with B&O RED LINE 140 in gold, font, Beofont , joking, just trying to stress you.

I seem to remember my 45's just saying RL 45.... but I could be wrong! :-s

Iconic-AV:

I'm basically trying to clarify the correct printed wording for the different speaker models, if you have a pair of either :

RL1000

RL2000

RL6000

RL7000

All the models where the 'red' stripe around the case frame became 'silver', did B&O change the colour of the printing on the straps to match the stripe?

As all the ones I have of the above seem to have no wording at all.  

RL1000  - owning an original pair -  no wording

RL2000  - owning an original pair -  no wording

I can add RL 6000 - no wording.

Martin

I've got RED LINE 45 here.

Also RL 35

Steve

Iconic-AV:

Im still working on the text for these,

can anyone tell me if RL45 reads either RL 45 or RED LINE 45 on the originals ?

thanks

I'm not sure if there's a definative answer here Jay.

I seem to remember B&O having to drop the name "redline" part way through production & simply call this speaker range "RL" due to some copyright infringement so there may be more than one version. Personally I would simply use the "RL" prefix and call it a day.

I'd also give prospective customers a choice of text (or not) for the RL*000 series for that personal touch. PS - I'll be wanting some RL45.2 & RL60.2 ones shortly.

Chris.

Chris.

Thanks everyone for all your help, just the information i needed.

Chris, thats exactly what i was thinking (although its easy for me to say that after youve said it ) regarding the customer choice on the RL*000

Once ive produced the metal printing plates for each variation and recieved the hot foil stamping machine ill be able to see how they turn out.

Although im tempted to just print 'Jay rocks' on all of them and have done with it

Thanks again everyone

This will probably make B&O devotees shudder, but some years ago when my original straps snapped I replaced them with ordinary ribbon of the same width and colour. Still there and still look fine to me! I got extra ribbon at the time in case it was needed, but so far it's not.

 Because ribbon is so flexible it's not subject to the same strains and problems as the original material.

Of course there's nothing printed on but in my opinion that's no problem.

Others may disagree!!

Iconic-AV:

bet you dont know what the font is?

Helvetica is pretty close, I've used it on replica Beotime clocks.

Chris.