"my wife and I were both fairly pleased to see the back of those!"

😉 Well, Peter, If I'd known that I would have bartered harder! 😁

Seriously though Peter did sell them to me for a very reasonable price especially as they had been professionally refurbished. I love them and can't ever see me selling them until we have to move to somewhere smaller (hopefully not for a while...) They're the actual speakers used in the photos on this and the Beocentral websites. 

Tim is the man for any repairs on equipment this age - I hope you can persuade him to help you. He has to be selective in what jobs he takes on or he would be divorced! I would follow previous advice and not use the Beomaster until it's been seen to.

Keep us posted with your progress.

Cheers

Nigel 

Glad the penta conversion went ok :) IMO it is worthy of the effort to get the best if you want to use the things as passive speakers but retain the amps :)

I prefer M100s - I prefer the sound and they look gorgeous! I think my wife would however not be too sad to see the back of those either but they are staying!! I find the veneer on the older Uniphase speakers to have a nicer finish - the later ones seem somehow a bit plastic in comparison. The MS150s are pretty spectacular though - the bass is far better than Pentas with much more detail at low frequencies. As with the Beolab 5s, you don't really realise how loud they are playing unless you are in another room!

Apologies for the thread hijack and the blatant plug, but my complete Beosystem 8000 will be playing at the Hi-Fi Wigwam Scalford Hall show on March 4th in Melton Mowbray if anyone's interested. (well, it will be as soon as I service the Beogram!)

Details here:

Adam that sounds interesting, I wonder how the hifi community will recieve this beast then! What speakers will you be running?

I think I might be tempted to come along to this one :)

Step1 wrote:

What speakers will you be running?

Well, it was initially between the Beovox CX50s and a pair of Goodmans Maxims, but in the end I decided on MS150.2s! 😕

Never heard of this before - looks like it's worth a visit

Looking forward to seeing your system Adam!

Cheers

Nigel

Silly question I know, but had to check ;)

AdamS wrote:

Step1 wrote:

What speakers will you be running?

 

Well, it was initially between the Beovox CX50s and a pair of Goodmans Maxims, but in the end I decided on MS150.2s! 😕