BeoCenter 3300
Manufactured: 1977 - 1980
Designer: Jacob Jensen
Colours: Rosewood.Teak,White, Oak
Beocenter 3300 combined a powerful AM/FM stereo receiver with an automatic record player. Technically identical to the Beomaster 2200, the receiver section offered programmes on FM, long and medium wavebands and up to 2 x 40 watts RMS amplification with low distortion levels. It also had the same logical operation facilities.
The record player had a spring-suspended rotatory mechanism and an electronic servo drive system which ensured accurate turntable speed - even during variations in the mains current supplies. A special pendulum leaf spring suspension made the arm and platter immune to external shock and vibration which causes most other record players to mistrack and damage the record and sometimes even the stylus.
All functions of the record player were operated by touching a single button. The start/play/stop cycle is entirely automatic and moves, lifts or lowers the arm much more delicately than could the human hand. The MMC 20E cartridge carried an elliptical diamond stylus.
Beocenter 3300 had sockets for a tape deck, an extra record player, headphones and two sets of stereo speakers. The unit could be made up as part of the Beosystem 3300, when linked together with other compatible Bang & Olufsen products.
BeoCenter 3300 Product Specifications
Type:1604 (1977 - Nov 1980)
Power output 2 x 40 watts / 4 ohms
2 x 30 watts / 8 ohms
Music power 2 x 75 watts / 4 ohms
2 x 40 watts / 8 ohms
Speaker impedance 4 ohms
Harmonic distortion < 0.05 %
Intermodulation < 0.1 %
Frequency range 20 - 30,000 Hz
Signal-to-noise ratio pickup low impedance > 60 dB
Bass control at 40 Hz +/- 12 dB
Treble control at 12,500 Hz +/- 12 dB
FM tuner range:
87.5 - 108 MHz
LW 147 - 350 kHz
MW 520 - 1610 kHz
Record player:
Automatic record-size 17 and 30cm
Speeds 33 - 45 rpm
Wow and flutter < +/- 0.06 %
Rumble unweighted > 43 dB
Rumble weighted > 63 dB
Speed deviation < 0.05 %
Speed control range > +/- 3 %
Pickup:
MMC 4000 Stylus elliptical naked diamond
Recommended stylus pressure 5 x 17µm
Stylus pressure range 1 g
Power supply:
110 - 130 - 220 - 240 V
Power consumption 15 - 175 W
Dimensions W x H x D 79 x 8.5 x 36cm
Weight 15 kg
Connections: Tape recorder DIN
Headphone Jack
Related Products
- BeoMaster 2200 Tuner/Amplifier
- BeoGram 1900 Record Deck
- Beovox P45 (Panel) Passive Loudspeakers
- Beovox S45-2 Passive Loudspeakers
Created: 2nd December 2006
Modified: 2nd February 2007
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