I have just got another item for my collection of mid 60's equipment and currently have a super long Beomaster 900 with centre speaker

Oh OK its a Beomaster 700 thats hiding at the far end. I will have to get a 900M then I can say that I dont have to buy any more 900's. The other radiograms are nice but I don't think I would be allowed one through the door! The BM700 is a bit grubby and looks like someone spilt something brown on to the dial. Ive taken it off but the marks are proving to be quite stubborn and I dont want to scrub too hard incase I remove the lettering on the the panel. It seems to work nicely. No stereo decoder (of course) but I was suprised to see only one connection for an external speaker unlike the 900K.

Nice photo !

All Beomaster 700K's are mono. They were only made in
one-speaker versions.
Beomaster 700K only has one amplifier where the 900 has two.

It was also available with a protruding front (where yours
is flush)
and with darker grey plastic framing (where yours
is lighter grey).

The Beomaster 900 came in both versions too, and as 900M
with no built-in speakers and 900K with two speakers.
There are differencies inside as well.

The dial lettering is on the inside of the perspex.
You can polish the outside as much as you like.
Even the inside with the lettering will take a bit
of polishing but of course not as much as the outside.
If everything fails, I may be able to find a replacement dial.

They are wonderful radios.

Martin

What a great pic! Since B&O bothered to do the 700 in mono, I guess they could've made it in left & right hand versions as well!

 

I just thought a 700 would be a 900k with a speaker chopped off. I didn't realise that the internals were different too.