You are not alone. Once you are in its hard to get out or stop and say: I got enough.
As for older B&O its a hit and miss but still getting items home can be a very exciting thing to spend your time on.
Some weeks ago I saw an interesting bunch of B&O items on Lauritz.com:
http://www.lauritz.com/Item/Item.aspx?LanguageId=1&ItemId=1138653&nBids=5&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lauritz.com%2fMyPages%2fMyAuctions.aspx%3fLanguageId%3d1%26DC%3d1%26CPIn%3d0%26ISz%3ds%26PSz%3ds%26PSzG%3ds%26SO%3d3%26ST%3d1%26PageId%3d4%231138653
Nearly complete 6000 system in white and that was the draw in this auction. A week later I went to Århus to pick it up. The transport were nearly to the actual door of the showroom but it was heavy to carry. That and no use for the Beolit or 900K made me just put it in another auction which ran the next wek with a very low high bid at 27 pounds. The Beolit had a missing antena and since no replacements are aviable I decided not spend any time with it. I did not power anything on and I was told that Lauritz.com never plugs in the electrical stuff but if it was non working I could come back with the stuff.
I got it all for about 140£ and 6£ in returns for the Beolit/900K minus the fee for the auction. I hope that the winner gets someting out of it.
Anyway comming home its time to plug it in. I had noticed that the Beogram 6006 had a nearly unused original MMC20EN along with 3 manuals which are for the SC60 stand, Beomaster 6000 and the floorstands 6017 of Beovox M120 speakers and others.
The plug in of the Beogram gave a little weird standby light but the arm got moving and played a record or 2. The tacho disc is the celluid one but it looks to be rather good for its age. The trouble started though with the black buttons going under neith and make it stopped working.
The Beocord had a need for new belts so no surprice there.
Beomaster 6000? Dead. Plugging it in and no reaction at all so its going to Dillen in January.
As for this white edition its better than my rosewood in condition. My theory is that the Beomaster went dead and the system got sold because of that. Its very clean and no rust or damage anywhere.
The collection is getting bigger all the time.
Beomaster 6000 rosewood with remote
Beogram 8002 rosewood with Soundsmith mmc2
Beocord 9000 rosewood
Beovox M150 rosewood no stands
Attyca 2 stand white
Beolab 8000 remote
Beocord 1900 rosewood
Beovision LX5500 with white laquer and black back cover:
http://www.lauritz.com/Item/Item.aspx?LanguageId=1&ItemId=800664&nBids=5&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lauritz.com%2fMyPages%2fMyAuctions.aspx%3fLanguageId%3d1%26DC%3d1%26CPIn%3d0%26ISz%3ds%26PSz%3ds%26PSzG%3ds%26SO%3d3%26ST%3d1%26PageId%3d4%23800664
Stand was a L2800 so sold with the former Beovision L2800 and a video shelf were with the auction though not in the pictures. The LX had the wrong software in it and the antena plug in got changed. Main reason for this one being sold at Lauritz? Well the Beolink did not work and 3 Duracells could not cure it. I still got the cables and link boxes 1611-1615. That tv still plays wonderfully.
Beocord VX 7000 2 way version black
B&O electric floorstand for the LX/VX
Beolink 1000 mk III
Beomaster 6000 white
Beocord 6000 white
Beogram 6006 white
Beocord 8000 rosewood
Beomaster 6000 white original remote. Just won it on Ebay.
B&O MMC20CL used slightly nearly new.
Beogram 1203 rosewood with original SP12 I think nearly unused
The Beocord 8000 rosewood and Beocord 6000 white is up and running. Got some belts from Dillen and once I put the right old type fuses in they both started to play. The difficult part is finding those fuses but the local music store had them not the 2 B&O stores in town.