TripEnglish: What!? John! Are you serious about the AV9000 / BV7 comparison!? You could say the EXACT SAME THING! Please! Yes I am, from a price comparison point of view, Trip. Just remind me how many speakers £11k bought you back in the 1990s with the AV9000? How many speakers come as standard with the BV7-40 in 2008?

Mr10Percent: Chrisreunion: I think that if we talk about prices, we should compare B&O prices to ...B&O prices! What bothers me with the present range is that: - 10 years ago you could get an MX 4000 for EUR 1,500, this was the entry price for B&O TVs, now you have to pay at least twice as much for entry level products (BeoCenter 6-23 or

Christian: What about the displays then. Aren't they used? (Penta Vox) I really thought speaker link was invented to connect the passive pentas with display info with an amp. Nope - the displays are not even present in the Beovox Pentas. There's a connector present but the displays were not fitted at the factory. Speaker link is for the active

Christian: ajames: I might be wrong, but I think the 9000 being the first in that range wasn't equipped with Powerlink Sockets so the beolab range wouldn;t work easily. Best bet if that's the case may well be Beovox Penta. You're right! But one could use speaker link instead. Not for the Beovox Pentas you couldn't (you'd be using

csmager: j0hnbarker: there's a whopping premium to pay for that wonderfully extruded aluminium frame encasing someone else's panel. That's not the only difference though - the panels are calibrated (which is expensive to get someone to come and do properly - around £300-£600), and they have other electronics (auto-contrast, brightness

Mmmm - you like these kind of threads, don't you Trip? You should hang out in the Vintage forum or The Workbench - we could use some lengthy posts in there to pad it out. I think some of us could buy into what you're saying about quality of materials etc. if only we didn't know that the panels were sourced from other manufacturers that use

Agree with Chris that the Beovox Pentas are the best of the lot, but is the amp in the Beocenter 9000 man enough to drive them at anything more than moderate listening levels?

erimille: I recently was grappling with a similar situation with a beomaster 4000. In the end (with help from this group) I went with a set of matching rosewood s45-2's and haven't looked back. The synergy of the older beomasters and these s45-2's is incredible. I currently have an airport express with external DAC as my input source and

How about some Beovox Pentas (i.e. without the built-in amps)? I once hooked up my BM5000 and Beovox Pentas and the results were pleasing at sensible listening levels.

No - that is the 1980s Beolab 8000 with a CDX as an add-on ;)