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  • 05-06-2009 5:50 AM

    • EOB
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    First Encounters

    Here is a post I came across on you tube which brought me back to memory lane. And showed a very nice working set which was my first encounter with Bang & Olufsen.

     

     

    I wonder what other forum members were their first encounters

     

    Ta,ta,.......

  • 05-06-2009 7:46 AM In reply to

    Re: First Encounters

    Being a my grandparents and toying with their rosewood Beomaster 2000 back in 197 ???? Maybe early '80s. I can also recall a black Beolit from the '70s at my grandparents.

    My other grandparents had Beovox S45-2 and a Beogram 2202 bought new in 1979.

    That is the earliest personal B&O encounters I can recall.

    The beovirus did not hit until 2003.

     

     

     

  • 05-06-2009 9:03 AM In reply to

    Re: First Encounters

    wow!

    that looks just like my bedside setup (less the beogram)!

    first encounter: mid-late '70's in a stereo shop as a kid...

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  • 05-06-2009 4:16 PM In reply to

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    Re: First Encounters

    Very nice, I have a white key version and the Beovox 1000's. Keep saying I will get the Beomaster restored by Classic Audio. Just not got round to it yet.

     

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  • 05-06-2009 6:04 PM In reply to

    Re: First Encounters

    Spookily, my first B&O product, and my first B&O memory, was the Beogram 1000 and I used to play the 1950s Glen Gould recording of the Goldberg Variations on it - just like the 'you tube' video - ah happy days.

    Cleve 

  • 05-06-2009 9:28 PM In reply to

    Re: First Encounters

    I can't recall the system of my first encounter ... but I recall the soldier and the Danish flag in the window of the B&O shop on a street corner in Johannesburg late 1966 or early 1967.

    At that time my schoolfriend's dad had a Beolab 5000 but we were not allowed to play it - I just wish I had steered my own dad to a B&O (instead we ended up with a Sansui 1000/A).

    My first purchase was http://www.beocentral.com/products/bg1500 which is Beogram 1000 with an integrated Beomaster 900 ... almost made from the components in the video ... and it still sits on a shelf by my desk ... it just doesn't work a anymore *sigh*

    However the WOW factor from the Sixties that still stays with me is of an ELAC Miracord 50H at Earls Court ('65) automatically moving its arm to engage the LP just before an irate salesman practically gave me a clip around my ear for daring to touch his precious kit.

    First B&O (1976) was a Beogram 1500 ... latest (2011) change has been to couple the BL11 with the BL6Ks *sounds superb*

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