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Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Dave — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:19:53 GMT

beoinbuff:

High: Getting a brand new pair of lab5s for the same price as the floor models because a promise is a promise. Love that B&O service!

SWEET!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

beoinbuff — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:49:59 GMT

Low: Getting several thousands of dollars off a pair of floor model BL5 only to find out that the store had sold them to someone else after they had promised them to me.

High: Getting a brand new pair of lab5s for the same price as the floor models because a promise is a promise. Love that B&O service!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

bayerische — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:30:06 GMT

Dave:

i have to say the biggest low (disappointment) was when i laid my hands on my DVD1. The build materials are utterly c r a p. This machine feels like it cost £50 to manufacture. The front panel buttons are just horrendous and i dread everytime having to press that flimsy plastic button to eject a disc.

High, is owning every other piece that i have (bar serene which is starting to feel like it's going to fail on me, feezing and such), especially the BeoLab 4000's, my absolute favourite B&O product.

Oh Yeah! My low must be the DVD1 I purchased two weeks ago, the one that lasted 45minutes...! Ruined movie night.

High is placing a new CD in the BS9000, sitting down in the sofa with a cold beer, selecting "CD" on the remote and hear the BL5's come alive. It's almost heavenly.

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Stan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:07:34 GMT

Recent B&O High: My BS5 is in!

Recent B&O Low: The BS5/BM5 has arrived, but the USB cable that connects the BS5 to the BM5 has not... so I had to look at those boxes for a very long week.

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Friedmett — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:28:30 GMT

My B&O Lows: Nearly every single B&O needed service before I could even use them. The latest was getting into thinking Beolink and an extra Beovision could fit in. I kind of thought the AV9000 was cool so I go online and normally the price is around 630£ but there was a defect one with no remote for 115£. With the service the total ended around the 630£ anyway. I had the Beolink remote allready

My B&O Highs: The fun to travel around Denmark to get the units home or to Dillen for service. The joy of plugging them in after spending the day 8 hours by train after Dillen has done the work. Once its working every day is a joy in every sence of the word. Yes it does sound as good as it looks. Another high is the finding of X-tra speaker kits. 3 type 2047 and 1 Tvkit never used.

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

cooldude — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:28:49 GMT

My B&O high : finally receiveing my BS9000 and beolab8000's.... they sounded sooooo perfect back then...

My B&O low : loosing them only months later in a divorce ....Needless to say B&O left a bitter taste and it took me a couple of years (8) for me to warm up to it again. Now I'm just a (though penniless) B&O addict like the rest of you guys .....

Cooldude

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

vikinger — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:18:35 GMT

vikinguk:

Jandyt:

Graham. Check the fuse in the plug socket first. Simple solutions are often overlooked!
PS. where about in Liverpool do you live?

Andy T.

Hi Andy,

The plug socket seems OK and the plug/ transformer still gets quite warm, so I suspect that it's an internal dock fault. I've got a travel charger that I should be able to try out later today (it's gone travelling to the Wirral!) Just hoping that its not the phone itself. (The phone still recognises that it's plugged into the dock because the screen image still turns over.)

Graham

Apologies if this is starting to look like a phone maintenance thread!

Andy, the good news is that my Serene will charge from the travel charger so it looks as though the dock is faulty. So as the phone itself is OK, my 'Low' is not quite as low as it was this morning!

Graham

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

burantek — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:08:20 GMT

High: I'd like to say turning my Avant on for the first time, but I remember so fondly the first time I saw B&o as a kid and the awe that has stayed with me ever since!

Low: Not too many, and I can't count non self-inflicted, so... it would have to be the time that I had loosened the lower glass panel to my BC9300 for servicing. Yep, you guessed it: I forgot and as I rotated the upper case assembly to the vertical, down it went smashing into bits!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Medogsfat — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:28:28 GMT

Thomas:

Then, this morning I woke up, turned on my Serenata and a whole line of pixels has gone white and no matter what I do (shut phone off, take out battery etc) remains the same. Has put me in a foul mood. Don't know what to do about it. Now I'm at work feeling totally cheesed off. A B&O low.

Thomas

Hmm....

This sounds like yet another indemic fault with a recent B&O product. I've seen a fair few Serenata's for sale on ebay recently with exactly this problem.

Chris.

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Stephan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:55:54 GMT

I'd instantly wet myself if I'd see my BS9000 falling off the stand, no joke :-)

While wiring my new 7-40 I had to unhang the 2 lower screws from the stand and was very nervous while doing that (sitting on the floor, the BS9000 above me) ...

You can thank your coffee table for stopping the fall a little bit. There was a BS9000 on ebay once with some falling damage and although the machine feals very sturdy it looked like a truck drove over it.

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

beowhit — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:26:09 GMT

I hadn't clipped it on properly and turned the radio on via the BS9000 as I couldn't find the remote, it must have been enough to dislodge it. It feel straight down, smashed the top off a coffee table and then fell forward on to a cushion - very fortunate! The front was undamaged and the edge that hit the floor left a long thin impression about 15mm deep in the wooden floor. I made a panicked call to B&O and they came out that afternoon and gave it the all clear, which was a relief as explaning it to the insurance company would have been embarrasing!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Thomas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:22:22 GMT

Wow - a BS9000 falling off the wall! To be fair, B&O stuff can be pretty fiddly to wall-mount - I remember trying to fit my answerphone to the wall once, that involved a few highs and lows...

But the fact that your BS9000 remained intact - what a result!

and yeah - love the clockwork orange avatar Stephan!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

Stephan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:29:09 GMT

BS9000 falling from the wall ??? Undamaged?? How high did you hang the system?

Sounds like you glued it to the wall :-)

@ puncher: Great movie & thanks :-)

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

koning — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:58:09 GMT

undamaged!!

Re: B & O Highs and Lows

beowhit — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:49:02 GMT

B&O high: mounting my brand new BS9000 and hearng it through the Penta's - sheer joy, what a beautiful stereo

B&O low: the very same BS9000 falling off the wall 2 weeks later, detroying a small table on the way down, a distance of 1.3m - oh no!

B&O high: finding out the BS9000 was undamaged - phew!