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RARE SET OF BEOLAB & BEOMASTER 5000 IN VERY CLEAN AND GOOD CONDITION.

Manufactured: 1967 - 1972
Designer: Jacob Jensen
Colours: Rosewood, Teak

BeoLab 5000: the European High-Fidelity format
“Design is a language which is understood by everyone…” as designer Jacob Jensen expressed it and demonstrated it in practice.


" A silicon-transistor high-fidelity amplifier with less than 0.6% distortion at all frequencies and at all volume levels up to 2 x 60 watts of power output. Its signal-to-noise ratio is better than 90dB (linear measurement). It has calibrated graphic controls and is extremely versatile, due to an unusual number of input and output facilities.

The Beolab 5000 is an amplifier that introduces no hiss or hum and reproduces all frequencies of the tonal range exactly as received. It has enormous power, permitting reproduction of even the loudest passages without distortion. Moreover, operation is logical and straightforward; varying or poor record quality can be compensated by means of efficient filters which remove the particular tonal range in which flaws are present; there is provision for connecting several speakers, including centre speaker, as well as provision for channelwise control of programme material. A special feature is a test control to facilitate adjustment of balance between channels. The use of silicon transistors ensures very low noise level, high temperature stability, and a very wide tonal range." - taken from the 1967

Bang & Olufsen's Beomaster 5000 FM tuner, BeoLab 5000 amplifier and Beovox 2500 Cube loudspeakers were the first product series designed by Jacob Jensen in 1967.

As early as the 1950s, they had developed stereo systems for the installation of Cinema-Scope systems in cinemas. In 1958, they were also responsible for the development of equipment for the first stereophonic radio transmissions from Denmark’s very first commercial radio station, Radio Mercur. When stereo started gaining ground, the engineers found new opportunities for a comeback.

The development of High Fidelity had already begun in the US and a number of small companies, headed by Scott and Fischer, had gained a dedicated following. By 1964, Bang & Olufsen was planning to conquer the new upcoming European Hi-fi market, a niche which ideally matched Bang & Olufsen’s survival strategy. Now engineers with more than 30 years’ experience behind them, under the leadership of chief engineer Nikolaj Krebs Sørensen, embarked on the development of the world’s most perfect hi-fi system, the BeoLab 5000 series.

With its ultra selective tuner and a powerful, distortion-free amplifier of no less than 2 x 60 watts, it offered qualities never seen before. The design was equally sensational. In the US, where the production of Hi-fi components had already started, they had found their form in the 19” rack format which was used by the first customers, the radio stations. When Hi-fi enthusiasts wanted quality tuners and amplifiers, they had to accept a design which belonged in the professional world.

Bang & Olufsen’s brief for the designers was: “Create a European Hi-fi format, which communicates power, precision and identity.”

This became designer Jacob Jensen and his assistant, David Lewis’ first assignment together for Bang & Olufsen. They solved it by designing the new linear controls like a slide rule bar in order to communicate the greatest possible precision. Thus began the era of the slide rule bar, a motif which was used and varied in the years to come.

The Hi-fi modules’ handles became countersunk Allen screws and the faceted and framed gold panels, which were the industry’s standard, were, in Bang & Olufsen’s design, transformed into extruded natural anodised aluminium.

BeoLab 5000 became a success, not only as Bang & Olufsen’s flagship, but also in more affordable versions, e.g.. Beomaster 1200 and 3000 and competitors were forced to follow suit. Elsewhere too, knobs were replaced by the linear slides – a development which continued until the mechanical grips were replaced by the electronic 'easy touch' controls of the Beomaster 1900.

At the 1967 spring fair in Hanover, B&O received the IF award for BeoLab 5000, Beomaster 5000 and Beovox 2500 Cube for outstanding and user friendly design.

BeoLab 5000 Amplifier Product Specifications
Type: 5303 (1969 - Dec 1972) 
Power output: 2 x 60 W 
Speaker impedance: 4 ohms 
Frequency range: 20 - 20,000 Hz +/- 1.5 dB 
Distortion: 0.2 % 
Intermodulation: 1 % 
Signal-to-noise ratio: -90 dB &lt; 60 W 
- 58 &lt; 50 mW 
Bass control: +/- 17 dB 50 Hz 
Treble control: +/- 14 dB 10 kHz 

Outputs: 
Tape DIN 
Line out DIN 
Line out RCA 
Power supply: 110 - 130 - 220 - 240 V 
Power consumption: 45 - 325 W 

Dimensions W x H x D: 47 x 10 x 25cm 
Weight: 10.4 kg 

Connections: Inputs: DIN; MIC DIN 
Phono high DIN - RCA 
Phono low DIN - RCA 
Tuner high DIN - RCA 
Tuner low DIN - RCA 
AUX DIN - RCA 
Tape DIN - RCA

WYSIWYG, CAN BE SHIPPED WORLDWIDE. SEE MY OTHER ADD FOR THE MATCHING BEOVOX 2500 CUBES.

In very good original condition

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