Hello!

The bass in the Avant is OK, but it is no sub. I think the speaker is more or less like BL4000, so no more bass than the 8000.

I used to have BL6000 connected to a KEF sub and the Avant, and it worked very well, escpecially music.

£1900 is a cracking deal on a pair of 2008 ex-demo BeoLab 8000's. Honestly - pull his arm off!

thavn wrote:

Hello!

The bass in the Avant is OK, but it is no sub. I think the speaker is more or less like BL4000, so no more bass than the 8000.

I used to have BL6000 connected to a KEF sub and the Avant, and it worked very well, escpecially music.

BL8000's have less bass sound than BL4000 and AVANT. If you like warm sound stay away from 8000's, they have a very clean and light sound and imho really need a sub

Hi all

Looks like the deal is off!

On enquiry the dealer decided to come clean and tell me the 8000's were in fact 4 years old (not 2008's) and had some fairly major scuffs to the aluminium (not mint!). Just to add insult to injury, he went on to tell me he would only give a 3 month warranty and would not deliver or courier them to me!!

Needless to say, I'm not going ahead with the purchase! I just can't believe a dealer would misslead a customer so badly, and not even apologise or offer any explanation.

I decided against eBay (and the associated cost savings) because I wanted the customer service, warranty, and trustworthyness of a dealer. Clearly these attributes just aren't there so I'm not really sure what to do.

I'm now of the opinion that 'let the credit crunch roll on'. Maybe it'll weed out some of these bad dealers and bring the customer experience back up to what it should be!

Or buy 4 PentaLabs for less money and crank it up.....

And then attach an Overture via ML.

It's what I did 😁

What a dodgy dealer!! Get some speakers from Lifestyle AV you can trust them!

Dave wrote:

What a dodgy dealer!! Get some speakers from Lifestyle AV you can trust them!

I'm agree with Dave. Try LifeStyle-av or Iconic-av realy great sevice !

Dave wrote:

thavn wrote:

Hello!

The bass in the Avant is OK, but it is no sub. I think the speaker is more or less like BL4000, so no more bass than the 8000.

I used to have BL6000 connected to a KEF sub and the Avant, and it worked very well, escpecially music.

BL8000's have less bass sound than BL4000 and AVANT. If you like warm sound stay away from 8000's, they have a very clean and light sound and imho really need a sub

Dave I need to disagree with you on this issue. Bl8000 IMO just sound different, not less bass. For me they sound really warm, only when you go loud impression is that you need more bass this is because they are really loud and in that case on some type of music you need more deep bass.

For me adding sub would be good only for movies and surround setup.

BTW speakers on BC1 are the same speakers like in BL4000, and my BC1 sound just fantastic, but with BL8000..... uh .... magic 😕

BL4000 sound nothing like the BC1.

Dave wrote:

BL4000 sound nothing like the BC1.

sorry I didnt unederstand?

You ment better than BC1 or BC1 better than BL4000 ?

Sorry english is not my native language ....