Release Date: 1963

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BeoGram 42V/VF

Bang & Olufsen BeoGram 42V_VF

The B&O 4-speed record player is an important step on the road to full musical enjoyment, being designed specially with a view to vibrationless and rumbleless operation. This feature is of great importance when playing stereo records as the pickup stylus must be sensitive to vibrations in all directions in order to be capable of “scanning” the record properly.

Understanding the numbering of these Beograms is really quite easy: the ‘V’ in ‘608V’ means that it is powered with AC voltage and ‘F’ means that it has a built-in preamplifier. The designation 608, 609 and so on, indicates the year the product was marketed. There was also a ‘U’ version for both AC and DC voltages. Beogram 608 for example, was a turntable without a built-in RIAA preamplifier and was produced for the 1962 season (internally many were date-stamped e.g. September 1961 would indicate the year it left the factory).

The difference between the models 41xx and 42xx was that the 41xx had a small turntable and the 42xx model had a larger turntable.

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BeoGram 41V/VF

Bang & Olufsen BeoGram 42V_VF

The B&O 4-speed record player is an important step on the road to full musical enjoyment, being designed specially with a view to vibrationless and rumbleless operation. This feature is of great importance when playing stereo records as the pickup stylus must be sensitive to vibrations in all directions in order to be capable of “scanning” the record properly.

Understanding the numbering of these Beograms is really quite easy: the ‘V’ in ‘608V’ means that it is powered with AC voltage and ‘F’ means that it has a built-in preamplifier. The designation 608, 609 and so on, indicates the year the product was marketed. There was also a ‘U’ version for both AC and DC voltages. Beogram 608 for example, was a turntable without a built-in RIAA preamplifier and was produced for the 1962 season (internally many were date-stamped e.g. September 1961 would indicate the year it left the factory).

The difference between the models 41xx and 42xx was that the 41xx had a small turntable and the 42xx model had a larger turntable.

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BeoCord StereoMaster

Bang & Olufsen BeoCord StereoMaster

Beocord Stereomaster was a reel-to-reel tape recorder which was novel for its time in that it had an Automatic Stop Function for if the tape should break during play. There were two variations – Type T was designed to be transportable; Type K was designed for a more static position.

The tape recorder is ready just to plug in as the connections have been built in the bottom of the furniture cabinet.

The new B&O Beocord Stereomaster Tape Recorder is the ideal recorder for the discriminating tape amateur. For the first time in the world you can have an amateur tape recorder with a built-in mixing panel for simultaneous mixing of three input signals.

Here, for the first time, is an all-transistor Hi-Fi tape recorder comprehensive professional specifications, including:

Synchronous motor of the Pabst type
Separate recording and playback heads
Recording quality may be checked at any time, either before recording (at the recording amplifier output) or after (at the tape monitoring amplifier output)
Equipped with two V. U. meters.
Three dual-input channels with slide-potentiometer adjustment.
Professional standards for speed, wow and flutter.