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Re: Beovision Avant - can it be removed from the stand?

SamWise72 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:59:10 GMT

The BV3 does look ace, but I'll have to measure the cabinet to see if it will fit, and once again, it's on a stand. Can that be removed? I nearly bid on an MX6000, but I'm glad I asked about the Avant; I feared that the stand would be an issue. My lounge is full of organic things; a 1920's art deco walnut piano, a brown leather sofa, a teak sideboard etc. The look of the Avant on the stand, quite apart from the practical issues, is just too minimalist.

Re: Beovision Avant - can it be removed from the stand?

nobby — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:35:43 GMT

Not impossible to do, but you for sure would need to be very competent and even then a very challenging task.

My preferred choice would be an MX7000 over both the avant or the BV3 ... but then I am a luddite :)

Neil

Re: Beovision Avant - can it be removed from the stand?

Dave — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:47:06 GMT

Nothing is impossible, but removing an avant and putting it into a mahogany TV cabinet would be pretty close to impossible, and VERY messy. It looks like it is on a stand because that is how it's been designed, but really, that stand houses all of the electronics and of course, the speakers.

If it's physically possible, i would re arrange my house and make room for the avant, because it is a storming TV and a beautiful piece of furniture on it's own. Alternatively, have you ever seen the Beovision 3? one of those may be more suitable...

Beovision Avant - can it be removed from the stand?

SamWise72 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:16:17 GMT

A Beovision Avant is for sale near me for a bargain price (the 28" version with VHS). I currently have a CRT with cable, so this would replace it nicely, giving me much better sound, probably better picture quality, and a better remote (the one on my current TV has questionable controls). The trouble is, I keep my TV in a lovely mahogany TV cabinet, which I like a lot, which houses the DVD and cable tv box as well, and which, as well as being a nice piece of furniture in its own right, serves to display other items on top. The Avant on its stand would lose all of that, as well as probably obscuring a lovely Iranian frame drum I have on the wall above the TV cabinet. In short, as cool as the powered stand looks, I don't want it. Is there any reason not to remove it from the stand and place it in the cabinet? Dimensionally, it will fit.