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Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

Dave — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:57:05 GMT

Yikes! Fair enough.

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

CraigB — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:44:26 GMT

David, That's how my grandad wanted them with the bases against the skirting board but the speakers pointing to his chair, he's then got a pair of BL6000's either side of his chair doing the rear channels

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

Dave — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:15:38 GMT

Oh the BeoGram idea is just ACE! I love it, and what a great combination of B&O.

Can i just ask, what in the world happened to the BL8000? It appears to have turned independent from it's base!

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

CraigB — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:10:42 GMT

mobeyone:
Hope my grand kids (one day!) will think of me like this instead of a raving old fool!!
Excellent though! and just goes to show how diverse the B&O customer can be and that you do not have to be a footballer to own a bit of B&O!

I'm sure the grand kids will look after you mate My grandad is a good friend, a genuinely funny guy with a thousand stories to tell. he's helped me out in the past and now I'm in a possition where I can return the favours

I visit the guy after work every Friday, pop in to do odd jobs now and then and promised him that whenever I went B&O shopping I would take him with me. It's not much but at 31 with 3 kids my life is quite hectic but he knows I help when I can

As for the diversity of B&O owners, well I'm a sales rep and my Grandad worked as a maintainance engineer for a sewerage plant

As for football, I did offer to take him to the Villa Vs Watford game at Villa Park last season but he said he would rather boil his knackers in hot acid I think it was something to do with him being an Albion supporter but hey, that's the closest we've got to being footballers

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

CraigB — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:48:37 GMT

Beobird:
wow, you did a beautifull job with the cabinet and the beogram in it (thumbs up)

Thanks

It was originally done by Rowney's of Stafford but they did a real bodge job of it, the Beogram didn't slide out quite far enough to open the lid, so their answer to that was to remove the lid from the Beogram . A few weeks later one of the sliders came loose so I decided to buy some better quality sliders with better reach and fit it as it should have been done. The result isn't bad at all but most importantly keep a 23 year old Beogram in pretty much daily use

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

mobeyone — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:25:33 GMT

Hope my grand kids (one day!) will think of me like this instead of a raving old fool!!

Excellent though! and just goes to show how diverse the B&O customer can be and that you do not have to be a footballer to own a bit of B&O!

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

Beobird — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:14:25 GMT

wow, you did a beautifull job with the cabinet and the beogram in it (thumbs up)

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

CraigB — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:48:19 GMT

Craig:
Great pictures. keep em coming.

Craig

Thanks for the feedback guy's, He loves the set-up especially his Danish Soldiers

Craig, I've posted pics of my set-up as well on another thread, Once I've moved house an Avant RF32 DVD and a set of Penta 2's are on the cards as well as loads of other old school B&O products on my wish list as and when funds allow

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

Craig — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:45:25 GMT

Great pictures. keep em coming.

Craig

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

joynsyde — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:43:05 GMT

Impressive. Cute fireplace. Nice to see someone taking such good care of his elders.

Re: Pictures from my Grandfathers

DiaBandO — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:19:26 GMT

Wauw, it seems he is really enjoying music and television. Very nice set-up. Good work!!

Rob

Pictures from my Grandfathers

CraigB — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:11:04 GMT

Ok, so I've chuntered on about the old fellow on here a few times and he was ok with me posting some pictures of what we've done

What you've got on these pics is a Beocord 7000 with a Beosound 3200 on top, then there's a BeoGram 5005 in the top compartment of the unit that you slide out and a VHS player below, there's also a Pioneer Laser Disc player in the bottom compartment but with this being all things B&O I left it out

Then there's the BV7-40 and one of the BL8000's

And finally his Fire place

This is what keeps you happy at 85y/o apparently

I'll post some pics of my bits (oooeer) later on