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Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Teletom — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:44:59 GMT

I remember my first B&O purchase in 1970 as it was the day of yesterday. I visited my brother (who was a B&O dealer at that time) and saw a white Beomaster 3000 together with a Beogram 3000 and a pair of Beovox 3702 speakers. I instantly felt in love with the design and overall performance of that system and bought a similar set in rosewood right away. That was the start of a very long "relationship' with B&O. And ever since I guess I must have acquired and trade in over 50 B&O Beomasters, Beograms, Beocords, Beovox's, BeoLabs, Beosounds, Beovisions, etc. etc. ... and... actually...in spite of all the (negative) developments over the last years, I still love the brand!

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

TripEnglish — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:38:09 GMT

I can't recall the order in which I bought them, but I got a BeoCom 1401 and a poster set early on in my career. Still have the posters. Must have given the phone away at some point.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

leogenghis — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:36:49 GMT

My father is quite an audio aficionado and I grew up with Quads and B&O's in the house. My first purchase was a BeoSound 2000 (aka Century) CD/tape/radio from the B&O shop in Palo Alto, CA. It was 1997 and I brought it over to New Hampshire where I was attending boarding school. As teenagers we were all into bass at the time so I had the Century modified to provide a variable line output so it could be hooked up to a subwoofer . It continued to serve wonderfully as my main system through my college and graduate school years. It was not until just last year that I upgraded to the Lab 9's. The Century is still in great shape, enjoying its "retirement" as a secondary system.

Leo

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Christer Glatz — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:25:19 GMT

My first was Beocenter 9300 with Beovox RL 6000 speakers. I bought them because my neighbour bought Beocenter 9000 with Redline speakers in the 80`s and I was so envious! So I worked a whole summer when I was 17 saving all my money for my first B&O, and never regreted it

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

stotty1111 — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:56:12 GMT

Beocenter 4000 and x25 speakersin the early /mid '80's thought we were the dogs b*llocks - the kids thought it was a great p[iece of kit for early ripping of tapes!

The piece came from a shop in Worcester who were in the throws of ending the BnO connection - think I paid around £400 for it!

After a prolonged period I again saw the light and in 2000 bought a demo BC9300 from a franchise in Stoke on Trent - used it wth the x25's then really saw the light and bought sonme Penta vox - that really openned theb BnO door!

Salut

Tony

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Hungedu — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:55:34 GMT

My first purchase was in 1993. It was a BeoCom 1401. It was the only thing in the San Francisco Union Square store that I could afford at the time.

My first REAL purchase was made the following year. I bought an MX-5500 with floor stand, BeoCord VX-5000 and a pair of BeoLab 8000 speakers.

I eventually traded up the VCR to a DVD-1 about 10 years later, but I still have all of my original things.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Peter — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:45:11 GMT

I cannot remember if my first buy was a Beolit 505 or my Beosystem 2400. Both were bought new from Windows of the Arcade - a wonderful shop with wonderful staff.

I had seen the 2400 and fallen in love with it so bought that, a Beogram 1902 and Beovox P30s. Lovely system and still one of the best looking.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Beowulf — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:49:59 GMT

2nd life Beomaster 2000, TX2 Turntable, with a free cassette deck and speakers + months warrantee from B&o Wimborne Minster £80 the lot nice condition and lovely people to deal with!

Dave

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

burantek — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:39:57 GMT

BM2400! Why? Thee brand identifying piece to me!

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

Dmitry — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:08:45 GMT

Bought Beomaster 5500 with Beogram CD50 and Beolink 1000 + Beovox 3702 after several month tries to find something sounding from a modern hi-fi.

Suddenly found a vintage seller, who offered a pair of 3702 speakers from a B&O collector- in close to perfect condition. After 5 minutes they worked, the midbass foam surroundings shivered, and replaced with a new rubber ones easily by the vintage serviceman.

Now everything works like new, and sounds fantastic together with a retro-futuristic design makes guests shocked the BM and BG are from the early 80's!;-)))

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

northswede — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:20:04 GMT

My first, and for the moment only, B&O is my BV7-40 Mk3.

Aiming for a pair of BL3 or BL9 and a BS5 for N.music and N.radio.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

beaker — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:03:09 GMT

Mine was a LX2500 (i think). I wanted a TV for my bedroom and had aways hankered after B&O. I found the LX advertised locally for cheap and was amazed by the picture and sound.

Since then I have bought lots more (none new, I cant afford it!) now my audio is all from about 1969, BL5000, BM3000, BM900 etc. The video is taken care of by an Avant and BV3. I wouldnt mind a pair of BL5's though.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

kallasr — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:35:15 GMT

About 4 to 5 years ago I stumbled across an online add: Beolap 6000 for 250 Euro. I didn't know anything about pricing of used B&O, but looked it up on ebay and thought "if my wife won't like these, I can resell easily".

In the end the person selling the speakers had moved to a new place and was trying to get rid off a lot of stuff he had stored in an old barn!

So I got a complete 10-15 yrs. old set:

- Beolab Penta 3
- Beolab 6000
- Beovision AV9000
- Beosystem 6500 (white) complete
- Beolink 7000
- 2 x MCL2P

for 1.150 Euro...

By now everything was sold and replaced for two reasons:

- when the TV (BV 3-32) we bought afterwards broke, I had no chance to do a 100% satifisfying integration with a non B&O AVR
- I have decided to buy only new stuff when I sell other items...see signature..

Ralf

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

dilznik — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:33:41 GMT

I got a Beosound Century floor sample for cheap since it was all I could afford at the time. I sold it for more than I bought it for 8 years later.

Re: What was your first B&O purchase and why did you purchase?

danezro — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:08:40 GMT

1st Purchase - Beovision 3 - 32, simply the most beautiful TV ever built - it still looks magnificent and relevant today with incredible sound.

Why - my father had a Besound 9000 and Beolab 6000 speakers - my B&O fixation is entirely his fault (why couldn’t he like Matsui, I would be far wealthier now!!)