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Re: avant as center speaker/stand

beobeo — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:14:52 GMT

This is a great thread but is a pitty the pictures are no longer available. Is there arny chance these are posted again?

Thanks;

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:07:30 GMT

You've got mail

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

rayfenwick — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:29:39 GMT

If ony the pictures worked...

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:15:35 GMT

Thank you guys for the appreciation!

Maybe I should start a little business for custom needs.......;-)

Since I'm working as an automotive engineer and having a B&O addiction, my great wish should be an employment at B&O working on the car entertainment, but it will remain a dream. They really need specialists and Denmark is a little to far away.

@Bieele:

Don't give up, I told you before I'm a little freaky and you don't need to do it as I did. There's also a guy in Germany who did something similar with Beolab 4000 which is much easier. I even started without center speaker.

My first thought was buying the PCB's and woofer/tweeter from the BL 4000, they are not that expensive. You can build those into the speaker cabinets from the Avant. This will fit perfectly into the BV5. Electronic problem solved.

You can also buy a beolink passive and a pair of passive speakers.

As you can see, there are more solutions. If you can handle the mechanical part, you will succeed.

Just start dreaming of HD BV5..........

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Bieele — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:29:56 GMT

Thanks Beogen,

Very impressive indeed! To be honest, due to the photos I got some concerns to go this direction myself; there is more 'do it yourself' electronics involved then I expected (I expected that more avant components could be re-used). For the more mechanical and building block work I feel more confident.

I need to digest this info a little because I also feel the BV5 is the best looking TV ever made and it would be great to build this for half the price of a BV9!

My concerns do certainly not mean that I want to cancel our meeting; hopefully that will make me more confident and I hope some alternatives can reduce most of the 'do it yourself' electronics.

Regards and thanks for the pics,

Bieele

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Jandyt — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:14:33 GMT

Very, very impressive Beogen and thanks for the photographs.

Andy T.

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

kallasr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:11:05 GMT

turning lathe that is....

Very impressive for a NON technician like me - I wish this was a service offered by B&O ;-)

BTOYVOTVS (Built to order - your very own TV set)

Ralf

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:06:23 GMT

This is the start, there's still some work to do on connectors, motor stand, etc.

I could also ask for a raise and buy myself a BV9, but hey, I just prefer the looks of the BV5 and it's half the price.

I also have some good news. You don't have to do the electronics if you have a pair of BL4000, this way you have a center speaker but you have to modify the wooden structure of the BV5 frame to fit them in. I like it the original way! The freaky thing I did with the IR is also not really needed, you can always use the included BS3 eye and build it next to the BV5 or even maybe behind the speaker cloth.

Also the sheet metal can be done in another way, but why making it easier, it's part of the fun making things like B&O have done it.

Good luck!

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:53:36 GMT

The 'fun' part

This one will require a good sheet metal worker or a company who can do some lasercutting (I have made the drawing in .dwg and .dxf). Also 4 extensions has to be made with a ?turning machine? (draaibank for dutch speaking people) and welded into the sheet metal if you want to make it like the original assy.

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:41:51 GMT

The juice of the amplifiers, straight forward but I used some good quality components like Panasonic caps and encapsulated torrodial transfo (no 'hum'' for me).

No detailed picture of the interface PCB but I used a MOSfet and a anti-'clic' circuit to enable the powerlink socket.

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:35:02 GMT

The amputation!

I wanted to fit the larger BV9 IR-PCB into the existing BV5 plastic housing. I had to cut the left side of the 4-layer PCB and place it on top of the right/middle part of the PCB. Try to find the inner layers of the PCB and have fun...

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:29:51 GMT

The 'brains' of the new BV5, quite empty in fact, just a +/-20V power supply, 2 Avant amplifiers, a powerlink interface PCB and a sort of cable cabinet to close the opening on the backside of the BV5 frame.

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Bieele — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:49:04 GMT

Beogen:
Never posted pictures before, can you help me out because the icon 'insert/edit image' doesn't seem to work.
I'm working on a mac, maybe this is the reason.

Hello Beogen,

Looking forward to your photo's and even more to our appointment!

I also work on a Mac; to add pictures you need to go to the OPTIONS tab; then you can upload images by selecting ADD/UPDATE below "file attachment". Hope this works out for you.

Regards,

Bieele

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

Beogen — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:40:09 GMT

Never posted pictures before, can you help me out because the icon 'insert/edit image' doesn't seem to work.

I'm working on a mac, maybe this is the reason.

Re: avant as center speaker/stand

TheMajor — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:37:31 GMT

Any chance of an image?