As usual, super attention to detail. And as you say, not bad for 43 years. Shows how well they were made. I doubt many amplifiers of other makes of this age are still working.

The Beolab 5000 cosmetic problem and a little about the restoration.

The wooden cabinet needs a careful treatment and a couple of minor repairs, which must be done with the original Rio Palisander / Rosewood. The finish is important also. I am always using bee wax which will give a fine smooth surface finish.

Here is a full restored rosewood / palisander cabinet for the Beolab, as an example of what is possible.

A very commen problem of the Beolab 5000 is scratches on the side panels and missing text and scratches on the alu-frontpanels.

See this of the Beolab 5000 special:

I have now arranged reproduction of the alu-frontpanels and I always replace the sidepanels and the black back-front panel with new-painted (the original color of course).

The parts looks like this:

For the fantastic Beolab 5000, I will do the following at the time of restoration:

Replace the black painted parts - sidepanels - back-front panel

Full restoration of the Wood top - rosewood / palisander part.

And the very important full restoration af the technical parts - replacing more than 100 electronic components.

The process will take about 3 month.

BUT.....................

This special Beolab 5000 will now be stored in my little showroom for other to enjoy and perhaps more important for me to enjoy, because it is really such a apeical BEOLAB 5000 WITH FULL DOCUMENTATION.

I will mention, the Beomaster 5000 is really as beautiful and with full documentation like the Beolab 5000 and I am happy to own that one too.

The reason I dont restore it now. This is because I have so many very nice orders for customers to do and I never restore anything before I have an order from  a customer.

/Frede

Quality never goes out of style, does it?

Looking forward to the rest of this thread, as a very satisfied owner of a Beolab 5000.

Already a great thread. Looking forward to the rest of it!

classic:

BUT distortion, this is really much too high, although the Beolab 5000 has a pleasant sound and really don’t seems to distort more than 1%. This is one of the “hidden problems “ where you could be very happy to use your Beolab 5000, but not knowing – the sound could be really improved by a full restoration.

I've received my Beolab 5000 restored by Classic Audio at Friday last week. It was like christmas... ;-) The weekend was reserved for listening some vinyl. The difference in sound before and after Frede's work is just unbelievable! It's probably the best investment i did for a long time...

I received my Beolab/Beomaster 5000 last month, along with my Beovox 5000s, Beovox 2500s (4 of them), and stereowidth box (along with Beovox 3000).  It is a truly wonderful system.  I feel at times as if I should donate them to a museum, but that of course won't happen!

classic:

I have now arranged reproduction of the alu-frontpanel....

How does that work? Do you cleanup and reprint the original graphics or actually make the part up?

I use the original panels. All text and anodization are removed and the panels are re-polished. The a new anodization including the text are processed on the panels. Thats all - - -  Thats VERY expensive

/Frede

Hi Frede,

Congratulations Frede with your very special Beolab 5000 ! 

Thanks for sharing all the documentation and the history of the set.

I've also found an interesting set.

 Rudy

Tell us more! (And clearly, there was a find on ebay.de!)

Hi Rudy,

Congratulations with this finding. Original box - the original dokuments and I also see the Beolab broshure. This is really great.

Please give more information and for my other thread, please give me the serial no and which serie.

/Frede

Hi all,

I'll be able to give more details in a couple of days.

Waiting for the set to arrive from Germany.

Rudy

RUDYV:

I've also found an interesting set.

Blimey!!!!!!

Hi All,

Today is THE day I've been waiting for.

The Beolab 5000 has arrived from Germany.  

When I saw it for the first time on Ebay Germany, I couldn't believe my eyes.

A Beolab 5000 in very good condition, with all the documents, user manual, Beolab 5000 book, service book, test certificate and a warranty card all in German language.

When I unpacked the set, I was very pleased to see that it's almost in mint condition.

Only the little rubber feet show some cracks due to aging.

Finally,   I've a complete set.

For those who are wondering about the colored dots on the master 5000, I've also included the pictures of the station markers.  

To my surprise, I also found the original price list of the 5000 system, in DM (German Marks) .

Rudy

Congratulations! Fantastic find - nice to see these coming into the hands of people who know to treasure them.

Wonderful find - I must confess to hating the sticky labels put on the tuning scales though - a Beomaster 1700 tuner of mine had some on and theywere a pig to get off!

The big question will be, which Beogram are you going to get to match the system and do you have the speakers?!

Hi Peter,

I'm also not so lucky with the sticky labels, but these were already on when I bought the Beomaster 5000.

I've got already a pair of Beovox 5000 MKI speakers.

A good Beogram, will be the next item to look for.

Maybe a  Beogram 3000 ???

Let's hope that sooner or later one will show up for a decent price.

Rudy

I'm sure Jacob Jensen became very fond of the person who came up with the idea for those station markers!