There is this gentlemen who is thinking of purchasing a BM 5000 from me. He tells me that "back in the day" as he put it, Sonab used to manufacture speakers for B&O. I almost fell over in shock and reprimanded him severely for his blasphemy! He maintains that Sonab did make speakers for B&O and that Sonab were better than B&O. Is there any truth to this?? Of course he's not getting the BM 5000, don't care how much he offers me!! He must suffer the consequences!! lol!!!
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B&O speakers by Sonab?
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He's most likely talking about the speaker elements, I'm sure B&O never made them themselves as "components". Some speaker manufacturers actually make their own speaker elements, ELAC is one example.
I don't think Sonab ever made elements either, so I don't think there's any truth behind this. I won't bet on it though, the original drivers in Beomaster 900K for example were made in Sweden. And yes Andreas, B&O made drivers as well, already before any one of us was born 😕
Anyway, many of Sonab's Carlsson era speakers were quite good. The 'orthoacoustic' models with multiple tweeters pointed everywhere could also be considered technically somewhat similar to Beovox cube based setups, although at a later time...
I don't think Sonab ever made elements either, so I don't think there's any truth behind this. I won't bet on it though, the original drivers in Beomaster 900K for example were made in Sweden. And yes Andreas, B&O made drivers as well, already before any one of us was born 😕
Anyway, many of Sonab's Carlsson era speakers were quite good. The 'orthoacoustic' models with multiple tweeters pointed everywhere could also be considered technically somewhat similar to Beovox cube based setups, although at a later time...
Just as I thought. I've never listened to Sonab speakers and I will admit I had never heard of them before this person mentioned them but I have googled Sonab, they aren't very pretty speakers to look at! They most certainately haven't dated as well as B&O speakers of the same era....maybe I'm biased but I like myself that way!! lol!
Sonab seem to have used Peerless and Seas units as B&O did. Given the rivalry between Sweden and Denmark I'd be amazed if this were the case. I think he just means that Sonab used the same components as B&O - which is fair enough, but some of their speakers are ugly. Apparently they sound quite good though.
Dave.
Ask him how he knows and which era or even speakers they made drivers for. If he is so adamant he must know more?!
Ask him how he knows and which era or even speakers they made drivers for. If he is so adamant he must know more?!
It was the same era as these speakers below. He says that Sonab manufactured the entire speaker for B&O, says the type stickers at the back of Sonab's are the same style as B&O. Like that means anything. I'm not sure how these Sonabs sound as it seems a bit odd to have the woofers etc....postioned in such a manner.
That is quite a story... All B&O speakers, were made at a couple of speaker factories in Denmark 🙂
For an example, my MS150.2's are made in a factory at a Danish town called Skjern, later found out that my neighbour worked at that factory 😎
Was the factory wholey B&O owned or was the work farmed out?
As far as I know, the factory was owned and run by B&O
-Søren
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