Are you 100% happy with your B&O setup?

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Im 99,6 % happy with my setup.

Living room: BeoVision 7 - 40 MKIII, BeoLab 7 - 4, Motorised floorstand, BeoLab 3, BeoLab 2, Beo5

Kitchen: BeoSound 1 (great sound in no space and my girlfriend has her ipod connected=happy girlfiend)

Pocket: Serenata

The picture is great, the sound is perfect for such small speakers and with a BeoLab 2 my BeoLab 3's are twice the speakers...!

One thing im most happy about: my motorstand for the tv.. I use it on a daily basis to turn and tilt the tv.

One thing im not so happy about: the SW problems with The BeoVision 7 - 40 (this will hopefully be resolved within the month)

H

With the Stereo Audio part I am 100% happy! Lab5 in the media room are just my best investment in any hifi gear ever. BS9000 with two lab4 is just a piece of art in my kitchen, sound is suprisingly good (very challenging room acustic) and a Lab2000 in the bathroom. 

The Video part is jst a 80-90%: I am 100% happy with my B3-32 in my office and the BV1 in my bedroom, rock solid operation, superb picture, great integration.

However, the BS3 in my media room ist still a "working" area. The video performance is not that great as promised, difficulties with refresh rates with my full HD projector etc. So that is more a 60-70%

Karsten 

Interesting question.

The Beolab/Beomaster 5000, Beogram 4000 setup in my reading room is a source of endless joy. Nothing to complain about there.

My Beosystem 6500/BeoVision 8 combo in the office is connected to a BeoLab 2000 in the kitchen. I love the way these units talk together, across a 1611. Nothing to complain about - and the fact that I can dial up the DTV/STB and switch channels to listen to television sound in the kitchen and then switch to the Beosystem, through the BeoLab 2000, amazes me. Kudos to B&O.

My BeoLab 5/BeoLab 3 two-channel and surround setup in the listening room is also a source of joy - bringing me deep into my music (and movies). I have chosen to go non-B&O when it comes to the audio source - chiefly because I'm a Mac nut, and wanted to make the most of the options that gives me. I feel B&O needs to catch up when it comes to providing control of digital sources, and I will want to hang on to the flexibility that my Mac mini gives me, compared to other solutions. But the sound I'm hearing is 100%, music and movies.

Overall - I'm at 90% with my B&O, and would have been at 100% if I had all B&O in the main listening room, but that requires some catching up from B&O's side when it comes to digital sources and internet streaming.

Hi,

I'm very satisfied with my B&O items.

Since we moved to Canada from Europe we have used several sound systems ranging from the more generic systems to bose and something more exotic with Denon and rotel etc. Only to be frustrated and buying a used beosound 6500 component system.

Unbelievable how good this (now almost completely restored) roughly 20 yr old system now sounds with the penta's that we bought to go with it.  My wife is totally sold on the B&O concept and the use of the beo4 ( we also have powerlinked an av7000 with cx50/100's) and is now reluctant to have it whole system upgraded .....

Indeed it's true that after sales service is lacking, especially here in North America it seems. When you have an older system like I do they're not very interested.... 

Our latest acquisition are a pair of new  B&O headphones and a new beocom phone. Again we're fully satisfied with these items.

Next year we will buy some new beolab speakers as the penta's are not the nicest looking speakers and we want something that fits better in our interior. Maybe beolab 8000 or beolab 9's. Again those will be bought new and we are looking forward to that.

 Overall we are very satisfied with our B&O items and feel we buy quality products. I have also followed the beosound 5 threads on this forum and will look into it when it is in the store. It could be purchase we consider in a maybe a couple of years when the product has fully matured.

Regards,

 

My setup is very basic IMO, but I am 99.9% happy with it. BV3-32 Masterlinked to a BS3000. Don't have any other speakers apart from those in the BV3. Intergration is perfect as I would expect, and the sound is more the OK for the size if room we have. Sold my Beoport as I was always sat at the PC when I was using it anyway. If I could change one thing it would be to have Datalink on the BS3000.

 

Craig🙂

I'm using AIRFOIL to do the same, very good and you could use any player on your computer, works also with Beoplayer.

Give it a try

90% happy. Wish digital MasterLink

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You propely know but yes its 100% despite the trouble of getting it together. Hell travel is good!

 

bayerische:
I just set up my iPhone as a remote to my iTunes, and connected it to the BS9000 aux via the airport base station. Man this is SWEET!  

I'm using AIRFOIL to do the same, very good and you could use any player on your computer, works also with Beoplayer.

Give it a try

 

OK, thanks I'll try that. Does Beoplayer work on Mac? 

What I am left with I am reasonably happy. I recently returned 2 Serenes - destroyed my phone books on the BC6000's. We had two of them and neither worked well. Returned BS3 which did not work - faulty control panel on the top. Wireless system has been returned several times until finally the setup I have now works.I have BC 2 which often flickers from colour to B&W yet the same DVD on a cheap Sony player plays perfectly! The picture on my Avant is off-centre and does not seem to be able to be fixed (have had several visits from Service dept.) I have a wall of wires behind my BC2, Avant and BL 8000 speakers which is intolerable but where can I hide them? I have tried making false skirting but it is only partially successful.I use a Mac, itunes, airport express and love it's ease of use.
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