Most people either don't know this is possible or are lazy I suspect. Probably more of the former, and some of the "I don't know how to do that" that keeps them from trying your approach, but it is a better one sonically and visually.

When last I moved I had the bases pulled and packaged in their little cube of a cardboard box.The move came swooping in and grabbed it, assuming it was small and light and he'd just swoop it up as he went by. The look on his face was priceless. 😎

Jeff wrote:

...When last I moved I had the bases pulled and packaged in their little cube of a cardboard box.The move came swooping in and grabbed it, assuming it was small and light and he'd just swoop it up as he went by. The look on his face was priceless. 😎

Instant hernia? :-)

My recent resurgent interest in getting some decent audio (that I can live with) was sparked my trying to get my son's Christ present this year : link

What the the FatMan Mi (valves) can squeeze out through a bluetooth stream and into a moderately cheap pair of speakers just blew me away and had me more or less immediately junk my Pioneer AV system (had been using it for movies but had sort of slipped into not playing music because it was just so flat).

Anyway, since the FatMan puts the valves in the preamp stage the next experiment is to see what happens when we drive the 8000s from the headphone socket on the Fatman Mi

If it delivers an improvement then it maybe an even more effective (and funky) bluetooth DAC than the Crystal Acoustic DAC I described in my review of the link

I haven't run tubes into the active speakers but did kind of the opposite. When I bought my BS9000, and before I picked up the BL8000s, I ran the output of my BS9000 into an old McIntosh MC240 tube amp and into a set of NHT speakers. Really looked kind of cool, ultra modern CD changer into old tube amp. Sounded good too.

I always try and keep some tube gear around as I think they look cool. Currently I have a small single ended tube amp, running 6L6 tubes, that pushes out a room shattering 7 watts/channel driving a small pair of single driver full range speakers using Tang Band bamboo fiber coned drivers.

IMO if your looking for abit of bass so no need for adding a sub i wouldn't look at the 8000 go for the 8000 mk2 they are bass enhanced and sound great.

If your looking im selling a lot of my collection. i Have

Beolab 8000 mk2 bass enhanced (Red ones, Silver black ones, Black on black ones)

Beolab 8002 silver,blacks

Beolab 1s

Beolab 3s

beolab 4000s

Let me know if your interested in any im from the uk and all my items are boxed

thanks  

I was at my B&O dealer in Beverly Hills today picking up some spare parts and I got to demo the 18s as well, the sales man offered me the same story without me asking, many people buy the 18s and say they'll come back for the sub if they need it. So far he hasn't had a single person come back for a sub. They did sound amazing, and I personally think they are the best looking product B&O is currently making. New colors coming soon too. 

While the BL18 is a very good speaker, after a thorough listening test I decided to keep my BL8000 but I've come home with a BL19. Strange but the midrange and highs benefit enormous from adding this woofer. Geoff Martin mentioned this also in his blog.

Years ago I listened the BL2 - BL 8000 combo, but this new BL19 in combo is of a different order. (I mostly listen to music, television is of no importance.)

worldrecord wrote:

 New colors coming soon too. 

nice - I did expect that to happen.

Looking forward to seeing them.

How about more choices of the wood of the front?

(a bit off-topic - sorry!) 

MM

The salesman mentioned some black and white fiber-board options, as well as a maple and pine option in the future if I'm remembering right. 

I don't like much bass so I prefer the 6000's.