I just saw the picture of the baby of Aleksei next a serenata (what is your best b&o purchase thread) and then I wondered if like me some beoworlders have inherited of the beo virus.I wouldn't say that my parents were addicted but they had some b&o (beocenter 9500, century).
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How many generation of b&o lovers in your family ?
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When my dad left, my mother a nurse always vowed that no matter how bad things got, we would always have a B&O TV to come home to. She now has a Beovision1, the mother in law an Avant and the kids are steadily building up a quota of Beovision 8's.My dad's now in heaven annoying everyone with a pair of Pentas, driven by a Beosound 9000 mounted on the Purley gates🙂
My parents had more B&O tv's and radios too.
But that was a long time ago.
They very rather common in Denmark and not considered as something special.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
My parents got the virus before me with a Beocenter 2002 and Beovox 35S in 1981.Still use that Beocenter 33 years later but added an Ouverture with BL 8000 10 years ago that they never use.They had an Avant when I had an Avant (the real one), they have a BV 11 MK 1 now (silver/black).Various Beocoms 6000 also.My kids have a nice BV 11 46" silver/blue during the day and let me use it after 9PM ;-)
I was the first in either branches of our families.
I get a "lot of stick" from all sides for my passion - although after the visit to Struer in 2012 my wife has a far greater appreciation of B&O and its ethos.
I have cascaded an BM 5000, CD50 and 2 x CX100s to my eldest son's family.
The other sons are not yet asking such largess . . .
However my grandson gets to listen at his home, and watch at ours, and at 15 months he understands that the Beo4 is a magic wand 😁
I am also the first, my parents where more "telefunken" in the 70'. I still have this old HR 5000 system.I try to transmit the Beo-passion to my children. A Century for my 7 years old daughter ( with my beogram CD 7000 since the Century doesn't read copied CD she receive from friends) , the boy is still to young, but is already asking for the same as the one in my bedroom ( an Ouverture).They really enjoy with their old beovision Avant in their playroom, watching VHS comics, playing with a WII from nintendo and dancing on the sound of a beocenter 7700 connected to a pair of wall-mounted beovox 3500. Some times, listening to an old LP ( Peter and Eliott the dragon for those who knows).Maybee i am too sentimental, but Transmitting this passion is not only a passion on the equippement, it is also transmitting a way of life, taking some time to prepare a vinyl, to rewind a VHS, the weight of a beo4 in hand,... In a sense, B&O is a life style.I hope they will continue to like those products the way I do.
Location: Luxembourg
A couple of them actually.
My grandmother on dad's side had since new in 1979 a pair if Beovox s45-2 and a Beogram 2200 in matching oak. I am the current owner of it today.
My grandmother on mom's side had a Beolit something in black and also a Beomaster 2000 in rosewood which I can recall playing with as a kid. Where this ended up I have no idea of.
My parents had a pair of Beovox 1000's at some point and also a Beogram 1202 which I got at some point. I still have it in my collection.
This just makes me feel old!! I still think of my Avant as quite a modern TV!! We had a Beovision 3000SJ as our second colour TV - superb set.
My B&O Icons:
Neither of my parents, nor my stepparents, have ever owned a proper stereo, much less a brand like B&O.
My kids prefer their NAD/Nakamichi system in their bedroom to their Beosystem 1900 in their homework room. But I'll keep working on them.
Very interesting to read all your stories guys.
By me also, neither my parents, nor any family member have ever owned B&O. It started with me few years ago. I wanted to buy an old Puch bicycle from an old lady and came to home with bicycle as well as with nice Beomaster 2400. The love happened immediately 🙂
Now my home is full with vintage B&O. To make all that possible (without many complaints) a have had to bung my wife with something with remote control 🙂 -> Beosystem 4500 connected to Beovision 7.
And I think my son is already infected. He got his first BEO for his 4th birthday and he is enjoying its sound very offten... His luck is very obvious I think...
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