They are extremely heavy: +/- 190 Lbs. But, they are blessed with THEE BEST handholds in the business -making them remarkably easy to handle. ...and that is the sort of attention to detail that you can only expect from Struer.

Love them.

The shipping on that is ridiculous!

Quite shocking, I must say. I thought that they (B&o) had made some good progress as of late. Perhaps not perfect, but certainly some steps in the right direction. There was a mention of some price drops recently in a thread here. Might we be seeing the start of a realignment of the company -and its short term outlook meaning primarily an adjustment

@macj: I am in a similar position and it is difficult. I dare say I have more satisfaction from my non-B&o room! When the BeoVision kit finally packs up -well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it! I may just end up wrapping Panny plasmas in the left over BV4 dress! And on that note, and to the point of your OP: What about gutting a B&o

[quote user="chartz"]Tivar seems indeed very interesting.[/quote] The French distributor is about 1/2 hour from you, outside LYON. Call and ask for some engineering samples -they will *probably* send some off for free -and surely more than you will need. Quadrant EPP France SAS ZI Front de Bandière - BalanBP 80020, 01122 Dagneux Cedex

[quote user="macjonny1"] Harmony is transmitting the B&O carrier frequencies though... [/quote] They do indeed transmit 0-455, w/ a hot spot between 35 and 58. Have you considered one? Not B&o, but you can use just one remote in a mixed media (B&o inclusive) environment. Q for the techies: Is the weakest link the actual eye? (i

Both of my 4000's are identical to Olly's pic. [quote user="chartz"]- why did B&O use the inferior bearings?[/quote] Well, unless there was a rolling production change, perhaps your BG was "serviced" at some point and the bearing replaced -but I can't see much to go wrong in this department as they are very robust

Hang on... My Logitech Harmony can control my BV4's via the B&o eye, so I guess the question is how to pass the signal to non-B&o gear via the eye. I have an IR repeater in a non-B&o room that I could have a try playing with. My assumption would be to pop the B&o eye in place of the IR receiver and see what happens? I am not going

Welcome to BeoWorld! Interesting question... I think this should become a good thread. To start, their longest running product is kitchenware!