Just saying hello to everyone from Victoria in Australia.

My name is Andrew, im 27 and have been a long fan of B&O products.

I am quite interested in newer home theatre products but have always tinkered around with vintage products.

A few days ago I got my first 2 B&O products, a Beocenter 5000 and matching Beovox S55 speakers and a Beomaster 1001. Its actually quite suprising in Australia, vintage B&O products (especially turntables, radial or tangential) command quite a high resale price as do the late 70's to mid 80's Beomaster amps... people dont seem to care so much for the fully integrated Beocenters.

I am about to embark on a restoration of the Beocenter which is in pretty good condition electronically but needs some cosmetic attention, the Beovox speakers also need the bass drivers reconed and refoamed.

So far this forum has proven an excellent source of information and I'd like to thank everyone for their detailed contributions over the years, it has sure helped me out.

If there are any other B&O fans from Australia around please feel free to say hi :)

Andrew

Hey mate... welcome. The people here are really nice. I'm also Aussie... from Brisbane but have lived in Switzerland for almost 2 years now. I only just started getting into B&O myself after admiring it for years through the windows of the store and online...

Anyway I'm sure you'll meet heaps of really nice people here. Of all the forums I've ever been to this lot are the most genuine (not always easy to follow the mostly British humour though) hahaha *hides*

Welcome Andrew, it's great to find other Aussies on here!  I've also found that the older equipment is still fetching decent money...motivates me to actually fix an old beogram 8002 I have sitting in the garage.

Luke.

where abouts are you calling from Luke? :)

Brisbane here.  So what non B&O A/V gear do you have?  I still don't have a home theatre setup due to the limitations of living in an apartment and secondly the limitations of my bank account not allowing me a pair of BL5's, 9's  and BV4 or BV9.  :(

Home theatre isnt B&O unfortunatly. I am based in Geelong in Victoria (Just moved here from Melb for a bit of a tree-change).

HT wise I use a Hitachi PD8800TA plasma for display. A Marantz 7002 HT amp, a Sony BDP-s350 blu ray player, Yamaha DVD-C700b DVD changer, Technics SL-1210mk2 turntable into a Cambridge Audio 540p pre-amp. Speakers are Yamaha NS-300 floorstanders and NS-300 center, Yamaha YST-SW1800 sub and some Klipsch RS-10 rears.

Welcome indeed

I am in Melbourne as are a few others

We even have the occaisional get-togethers that have been in restaurants and other places suitable for serious B&O discussions :)

This is the most recent that I am aware of ... http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/17700.aspx?PageIndex=1

Michael:

 

elephant:

I am in Melbourne as are a few others

That explains alot Elephant.   I kept trying to figure out how your signature keeps telling me what you are going to listen to this evening when I'm getting up in the morning.

Well to make it "worse" since I communicate with Europe every day I have left this laptop's clock set at GMT !

That's why the signature block sometomes lcaims I am listening to music at 2am ... mind you I am sometimes up at 2am, but just not listening to music ... the family would lynch me !