Dennis wrote:

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To me, the 8000 still has a great wow factor! I really love this design.

Not my current setup, but this is how my student apartment looked like.

Short story: my neighbour came home on a wednesday at 2 in the morning, and he started singing opera.

The morning after I connected all six pentas, and listen to "very light" music from 7 to 9 :P

Aussie Michael wrote:

Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea?

Another reason could be, that people simply don't have any money left for furniture after spending 10 grand on B&O equipment. 😂 

/Dennis

Aussie Michael wrote:

Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea?

Ho Ho

probably because we spent all our money on B&O so can't afford an Ekornes chair, so settle for Ikea!

having said that the quality is a lot better than you might think for the money.

the kitchen units are especially good and having fitted 30 odd as display units in our hair salon recently, I have a reasonable idea. Ikea cabinets with glass drawer fronts, ikea shelving, ikea overhead lights, custom rounded worktop and corner shelves(there's a lot you can't see). Plus ikea kidney shaped worktop and units to make a custom display table for not much money. Saved a fortune doing it myself that way against having a shop fitter , plus easy to customise.

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Lounge at home - I spare glass fronted drawer from the salon plus a couple of black kitchen units with glass doors, a bit of custom worktop from my buddy over the road and voila! 'designer' unit to house a recored collection in pull out drawer, tx2, books and all the cabling etc to join it all together.

Not forgetting the ikea dining chairs (done 15 years good service so far) teamed with french solid oak table, plus an Eileen Gray table - (sofa not ikea - make in the UK)  Trunking still needs painting to match the walls.

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With a bit of ingenuity a lot of the products can be adapted to make quite nice looking things - granted some of the items they sell are not of the best quality and that's reflected in the price. You wouldn't go there for a 'legacy' piece of furniture to last a lifetime, which is why I have a good mixture of suppliers in our house and businesses. Overall nice scandanavian designs at realistic prices. Plus they do hotdogs after the checkout  🙂

Good use of the ikea steel kitchen rack BTW Chris!

DJ

Aussie Michael wrote:

Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea?

Wow.  Do you not have a self-filter before you hit the "post" button?

But to answer your question, for every dollar I don't spend on a piece of furniture, I have another dollar to spend on record collecting.  And my "rubbish from IKEA" chair suits me just fine.

I don't think Ikea stuff is rubbish, but the quality varies depending on the item. Sometimes I wish their stuff was maybe 50% more expensive and better built, but all in all I'm happy with what I've purchased from them, it suits my needs.

I think their chairs and such are better than their cabinets for example, but I have their cabinets in the living room. It would have been prohibitively expensive, and not given me the look I wanted, to go with something else. So I modified the cabinets, put cable holes and vent holes/fans in and made a quite nice AV cabinet that suits my needs. Sure, it's poorly made enough that if you moved it a lot it'd probably come apart, but I don't move it and it was easy to customize. And the gloss white looks quite nice, underneath the top of the line Panasonic plasma set and with the Beolab 9's. I'd rather have spent the money on the 9s than more expensive cabinets!

I have a kind of schizophrenic house, I have a very expensive Saarinen dining set, and cheap Ikea cabinets in the next room, but each serves it's purpose well.

Aussie Michael wrote:

Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea?

Sorry to add oil in the fire but I was wondering as well... I really think that the beautiful design of B&O stuff deserves much better furnitures than Ikea. You don't need to only have expensive furnitures but some nice italian pieces or from Vitra for exemple are a perfect match with B&O. I prefer to keep some money to arrange a cosy design place to live in and enjoy my B&O toys sitting in my nice ottoman sofa from a well known designer. For me B&O is at it's best when visible in a nice environment but it must not be the only design pieces in the room. Some very nice lights are very important as well to create the cosy atmosphere. I don't want to live in a B&O showroom...

Jeff wrote:

I don't think Ikea stuff is rubbish, but the quality varies depending on the item. Sometimes I wish their stuff was maybe 50% more expensive and better built, but all in all I'm happy with what I've purchased from them, it suits my needs.

I'm with Jeff on this one. IKEA has served me well. I bought low end stuff after college when I was out on my own, but of late, my wife and I prefer the upper end things, which are indeed well built, sturdy when put together appropriately and look decent. I would never claim that IKEA items are the quality from the likes of BBItalia, etc, but they're good for what they do. And if you have pets or kids, well, IKEA is a great choice.