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Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

Toubro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:47:20 GMT

I have a 32" Philips LCD TV that I don't know what to do with, so I'm just waiting on my brother to throw out his old Avant 32" with video, so I can make a project out of it like in Cooldudes link, but with the screen integrated into the original casing, and with Beo4 control.

I have a 32" Avant RF DVD, but I would never take that apart

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

cooldude — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:45:06 GMT

You're welcome

Wish I could find a cheap avant here in Canada ....

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

vikinger — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:42:11 GMT

cooldude:

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/25169/191588.aspx#191588

Thanks Cooldude! How did I miss that thread?

Brilliant conversion.

Graham

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

cooldude — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:21:32 GMT

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/25169/191588.aspx#191588

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

vikinger — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:24:38 GMT

TripEnglish:

More interesting project: Leave the Avant with the blown tube intact below the shoulders and take the tube out. Replace it with the appropriate size LCD monitor. I'd really be interested in seeing this!

I'm also waiting for someone to empty out the gorgeous BeoVision 5 and give it proper HD guts! It seems fairly easy considering how the plasma is mounted inside.

I'm sure that I saw a converted LCD Avant on eBay earlier in the year.

There were Avant speaker modules (from 28") for sale on eBay [here], (didn't sell at £55)

There must surely be a market for converted Avants in the long-term, particularly as CRT supplies dry-up and LCD/LED screens become very cheap.

Graham

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

jayreece — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:42:34 GMT

Hi, I have a 28" avant vcr. It is on its way to be destroyed on Friday but I couldn't just let those amazing speakers go. I took out the whole speaker cabinets and the cables between them and also the two amplifiers on the side of the tv. Is there anything else I would need from the 28" to get these working?

Cheers

James

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

hannesbl — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:42:14 GMT

@warren & dp:

I love your ideas!!!!

I have also an older Avant and when I think that this thing could be white, my iphone is the remote and the Overture has an ipod dock...... Great!

Please post some photos from your projects. Many of us would enjoy this.

Many greetings from Austria, Hannes

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

darren — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:09:06 GMT

dp:
ah you beat me to my white idea! lol

Yep.

Our projects seem very similar as I am also looking at hooking up a mac. I will be using the Avant as a computer monitor as I have a RF Avant as my main TV.

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

dp — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:23:05 GMT

ah you beat me to my white idea! lol

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

dp — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:19:59 GMT

Which brings me onto my more challenging project:

32" Avant with a full HD LCD, fed by a mac mini (mounted just behind the back of the 'wall' of the avant) which for the final touch is controlled by my iPhone... and (possibly) having been inspired by Lee's white BeoLab 2, I'll be treating my Avant to a nice white suit!

Oh and did I mention my Overture that will be getting the tape deck taken out and replaced with an Apple dock placed in it for my iPod nano?

fun ahead....

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

darren — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:50:23 GMT

TripEnglish:
More interesting project: Leave the Avant with the blown tube intact below the shoulders and take the tube out. Replace it with the appropriate size LCD monitor. I'd really be interested in seeing this!

I have in storage a 28" Avant which I was/am planning to do this modification to. Just need to get around to doing it. Will also do a colour change to white at the same time.

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

TripEnglish — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:18:37 GMT

More interesting project: Leave the Avant with the blown tube intact below the shoulders and take the tube out. Replace it with the appropriate size LCD monitor. I'd really be interested in seeing this!

I'm also waiting for someone to empty out the gorgeous BeoVision 5 and give it proper HD guts! It seems fairly easy considering how the plasma is mounted inside.

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

Keith Saunders — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:10:21 GMT

I think it would be possible with a few small modifications..

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

Movie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:08:03 GMT

Would it be possible to use the Dolby Digital card from Avant with 3rd. party TV.

Re: Stripping out old Avant Speakers for future Surround Sound....

Beogen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:55:21 GMT

I did it but was unable to start up the original power supply PCB from the Avant. That's why I made my own +/-20V power supply which is switched on and off by a MOSfet (low current drain) and some other components. I implemented this speaker system in my BV5/Beosystem 3 combination as the center speaker.

Works great but slightly lower ouput then my BL3/BL8000 surround speakers. This could be tuned in the sound menu.