Audiophile dollar stretcher. At the time, the Axis filled a gap in the table market between the budget Duals and the mega-buck tables like the Sondek, et al. It outperformed its own peers..and some more expensive units! | Joplin spray foam cost

None . .

We bought our B&O turntable when our children were small. The salesman at Underground Sound put a record on & began rapping the base right next to the platter. The record played flawlessly. He then bumped the cabinet on which the turntable sat. The B&O promptly lifted the stylus & turned itself off without scratching the record. We were sold. My only complaint was the cost of a replacement stylus. I replaced it every year & $300-800 with young children seemed an extravagance. But, as I began to replace albums & cassette tapes with CDs, I used the turntable less. Now, ~35 years later, the world has turned away from discs back to LPs & streaming. The B&O works as well today as ever. A new belt, a fresh stylus ... I love it.

None as far as I’m concerned (except the price of cartridges).

Tbe B&O 1800 Turntable is as killer now as when l got it in the early 80's. Still on original Cartridge & Stylus, tracks & sounds great. You can even take the tonearm & scratch it back & forth over the record & not scratch the record. Plays warped & scratched records & sounds great, can not say enough good about this turntable

Sounds like a lapdance

No manual or support

I bought a used Beoworld RX and the needle sits down about a half inch short of the vinyl. Does anyone know how to adjust the tonearm drop? I waited for months for the SoundSmith stylus and woudl like to get this thing moving. Right
now I have to stand... it sounds fine, but right now I would perfer my Dual.
Thanks

Customer Service

Non existant

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Incredible sound and technology--when it worked.

Destroyed LPs

An amazing product when I first bought it (early eighties): pristine sound, no rumble or wow, virtually no distortion or gram weight, absolutely best isolation I'd found for belt-driven. Wonderful for taping: the mechanism would drop the tonearm in exactly the same place every time, so you could time the start of the first song on a side with surgical precision. Only one problem: the tonearm up and began to decide, near the end of a side, to just suddenly SCRAPE BACK ACROSS THE RECORD!! and come to a halt limply next to the platter. Multiple visits to two different B&O-certified service shops couldn't fix the problem, and as it had _just_ gone out of warranty (what a surprise), finally stopped throwing good money after bad and got a Garrard.

Sound quality, ease of use, cost.

Discontinued by B&O.

This is a great turntable that reproduces warm, well-defined and natural sounding music. With a B&O MMC2 cartridge, far from Ty's description in the review below, the result is fine soundstage imaging, quick response and good definition across the board. These TT's and cartridges give you hi-fidelity reproduction without having to break the bank. Another good point about the B&O table is its ability track extremely well. Because of its low mass tone arm, cartridge and minimal tracking force requirements, it tracks used and mildly warped vinyl better than higher end tables that I've heard. It is unfortunate, therefore, given the many positive attributes of the B&O turntables, that they are no longer manufactured or supported by B&O, though you can still buy new replacement cartridges.

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Not sure why Ty would rate this turn table a 1. This is a good table for value and overall a 3 or 4 leaning towards the 4 but certainly not a 1. Give me a break...Good sound stage...simple operation...brings life back to vinyl...I prefer to listen to LP''s rather then my cd collection...To me that certainly deserves a better rating than 1. I will give it 5 stars all around to counter the snob below....

Styling

Sound

If you buy Bang & Olufsen products, you more than likely buy with your eyes and not with your ears. This table is very, very poor- gobs of plastic and a flimsy tone arm contribute to massive sonic confusion. Save your money and buy a Rega P3.

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Beautiful example of industrial product design. Sleek, compact. Very user friendly ergonomics

Less than audiophile performance with significant turntable rumble present. B&O cartridges are the only option to use.

Beautiful example of industrial product design. Sleek, compact. Very user friendly ergonomics. Less than audiophile performance with significant turntable rumble present. B&O cartridges are the only option to use. Looks terrific on the shelf, but less than ideal coming out of the speakers

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Sleek and stylish, impervious to vibration, well integrated arm/cartridge, super cartridge.

cannot fine tune speed for variations in current, but very accurate nonetheless. S/N not as great as direct drive.

I love this turntable. It's not exotic, and not particularly heavy, but works beautifully. You can drop the dust cover or pound your fist on the shelf on which it rests and it won't skip, even with the tonearm set to only 1.1g. And the B&O cartridges are fantastic. My records never sounded better.

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