I thought it would be a great thread to post some funny quotes from our spouses about our B&O gear.  Here's a simple example of mine:

A bit ago I found a great deal on a BS9000 off of ebay.  My wife is really not interested or appreciative of my B&O habit or particularly fond of hi-fi other than liking the sound of the music it plays.  Proud of my find, and the great deal, I asked my beloved what she thought the BS9000 sold for new.  Her first guess:  $200 (US dollars).  I almost cried.  

macjonny1:

Her first guess:  $200 (US dollars).  I almost cried.

Experience...

I said: THAT MUCH! What are you, crazy?!?!?

To the topic, not the wife but a female friend...

Walks in, sees the BM6000... "You have an 8-track player"?

My wife constantly says I'd rather spend time with my "girlfriend" (Beosystem) than her.

We had our friends over a few nights ago, and she did warn their children "not to touch, look at, or breathe on Jon's B&O, or else he'll kill you. He won't hesitate to kill our kids for touching it, so he won't hesitate to kill you either." Hahaha! A bit of exaggeration, but not much!

Jon

Once, while visiting friends, I borrowed my girlfriends nailpolish for locking a couple of tapehead azimuth screws.
I cannot recommend you do the same. You'll never hear the end of it.

Martin

Prospective girlfriend during try-outs enters my listening room, which is adjoining the large kitchen. Sees my BeoLab 5s, asks "What are those?"

Falls silent when she is told they are loudspeakers.

"This could be such a great dining room."

I'm single.

I should feel rather lucky then that my wifes goal for next year is to buy a Beovision 7-40-2, a Beolab 2 and a nice Struer design table for it to go on!!!

 I have just bought a Nissan Patrol to go blasting around the countryside in, and she thinks its cool and has already booked off road lessons.

(No she is not call Bob and doesn't have a beard either)

soundproof:

Prospective girlfriend during try-outs enters my listening room, which is adjoining the large kitchen. Sees my BeoLab 5s, asks "What are those?"

Falls silent when she is told they are loudspeakers.

"This could be such a great dining room."

I'm single.

!!!

I have a particular experience with my girlfriend when she first entered my listening room.

It was the time, I had my Beosystem 6000 and two pairs of S-75's, one pair on original stands and one on a shelf. The first thing that she said was:

"I won't help you getting these speakers moved if we are ever going to move together... The radio and record player is nice, but those speakers are damn big!"

When I bought a pair of MS150.2's, she was surprised that they could be that big, they certainly look smaller in the picture

-Søren

For some reason woman do seem to appreciate Beolink with powerful speakers in the bedroom.

My Other half is always quick to jump and say B and O this and that when something is not working but quick to take the credit when our friends come over and watch a film or we have a party and they compliment on the sound etc.

I took the Beo4 the other week and said if you dont like it dont use it.

That got me no where.

Not my other half but I have a pair of BeoLab 6000's that have been downgraded to computer speakers. My friend asked how much they were and he said "3", ofcouse said kinda close they go for $3,700 new. His reponse was "I ment $300".

I'm still not allowed by the spous to sell the Penta's.

She needs to see how loud the tv is set......

Beobuddy:

I'm still not allowed by the spous to sell the Penta's.

She needs to see how loud the tv is set......

Shouldn't the volume be adjusted according to the volume you hear, not to the volume you see?

I have hundreds of quotes from my wife every time I bring home yet another piece of B&O. Unfortunately this being a forum open to minors I cannot print any of them...............

The only one I can really share with you is the often used "tut" (accompanied of course by a resigned shake of her head & upturned eyes).

Chris.

The 'tut'...  ah yes, i've heard that so many times.

'Mrs 9 LEE' resigned herself to the fact that B&O would appear, disappear, reappear and then spread to other rooms a long time ago.  She's even given up acknowledging new items - apart from the recent addition of some BeoLab 5's in the lounge - then held a facebook poll amongst her friends as to wether they were hideous or not.  Most of her friends voted 'hideous' and she asked for them to leave.

They are in my lounge as i type this of course, and are going nowhere.  

Lee

soundproof:

Prospective girlfriend during try-outs enters my listening room, which is adjoining the large kitchen. Sees my BeoLab 5s, asks "What are those?"

Falls silent when she is told they are loudspeakers.

"This could be such a great dining room."

I'm single.

 Soundproof, you just made my day!

Blackrix:

 Shouldn't the volume be adjusted according to the volume you hear, not to the volume you see?

 

Will you tell her?

9 LEE:

The 'tut'...  ah yes, i've heard that so many times.

'Mrs 9 LEE' resigned herself to the fact that B&O would appear, disappear, reappear and then spread to other rooms a long time ago.  She's even given up acknowledging new items - apart from the recent addition of some BeoLab 5's in the lounge - then held a facebook poll amongst her friends as to wether they were hideous or not.  Most of her friends voted 'hideous' and she asked for them to leave.

They are in my lounge as i type this of course, and are going nowhere.  

Lee

"Honey... feel free to move them!" would have been my reply :-)

Blackrix:

Shouldn't the volume be adjusted according to the volume you hear, not to the volume you see?

Not necessarily. We've instructed our son (7 y.o) that he's not allowed to set the TV volume higher than 40...

yeah i can imagine that woudl make next door unhappy if he had cattoons blasting lol.

The service menu or customer service menu has an option for max volume level.

Martin

" Prospective girlfriend during try-outs " this phrase just rocks :-)

Thumbs up!

Well, Mrs S actually buys some of our gear - although I introduced her to B&O by buying her a Beocenter 7007 back when she was just my girlfriend and had bought her first house, it was her who announced a few years later that she really liked the BS9000 and was going to buy one with her first bonus. 

She also decided that the dining room needed BL6000s to go with my Beosystem 5000, so we bought a pair last weekend. (althought this might have been because my preferred alternatives were my Goodmans Magisters - very big, very teak, not very pretty!).

Sadly she's less into the older items, and so fails to get excited by the likes of my Beogram 8000, Beogram 8002 and Beocord 8000. I dread to think what she'll say about the Beomaster 8000 when I collect it from Tim Jarman!

Probably the best quote from a relative, though,  has to go to my mother, who has been a lifelong B&O fan. On seeing the Beovox MS150s and being told they were made by B&O she glared at them and replied "Hmmm, clearly the designers were on holiday that week"

@Martin:

YMMD

That could be a nice poster for the ICU in any hospital (Intensive Care Unit)

iPoditiv

AdamS:

Sadly she's less into the older items, and so fails to get excited by the likes of my Beogram 8000, Beogram 8002 and Beocord 8000. I dread to think what she'll say about the Beomaster 8000 when I collect it from Tim Jarman!

Oh I so understand your predicament, Adam.

My partner, who had been tolerating my Beomaster 4400/Beogram 4004/CDX sitting quietly and relatively unobtrusivley on her oak dining room unit  nearly had a fit when this was replaced by Peter's complete Beolab 8000 and the CDX, and in particular the BM, to which she refers as 'that great ugly thing'.   When I susggested the MS150s to go with it, well......

Cleve