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Found a bang & olufsen 5500 system:-
beomaster 5500
beogram 5500 cd
beocord 5500 cassette
beogram 5500 turntable with mmc5 (cheapest one in rough looking condition)
beo???? 7000 (the big cassette deck thing)
beomaster controller
beo 60.2 redline speakers (no stands I don't think).
All in pretty scraped looking condition, been on the floor of a record shop potentially for years but assured working, though yet to see it myself.
From what I can dig up on the old interweb, its the less desirable silver coloured system (if it was white it would be £1k+), its not in the best condition, and finding ALL the din cables might be a bit of trouble. Despite this the guy seems to want £350 for it, which I think is a bit, neat.
Used to have a lush NAD + musical fidelity system built up in the late 90s but haven't had much since !
Reading about B&O stuff tends to look nice and do fancy things, but not always the cleanest sounding, personally I'm not after £20k krell's for what I have in store for it, but something half decent for the medium term.
Looked up the B&0 system with a mate who runs a hifi shop, he (struggled) to sell a similar 5500 system earlier in the year for £650 with 12month warranty and two sets of those speakers (for multiroom).
£150- £200 is what I was looking at for a 25yr+ old system thats in pretty shady cosmetic condition that hasn't been stored that well.
Do I sound sane? Or should i just bin the retro stuff and go for something modern thats half decent instead for similar money? (NAD + rotel + B*W)
lastly place I found it is Glasgow, they themselves seem spot on, but have had trouble with Glaswegians and deals before, namely they always ask way too high, then get physically offensive when you offer less, though likely just the natural Scot vs. English argument I reckon lol.