Where do you live ? Central Sibiria ? :-)

I almost never talk about B&O with my friends and family. My friends says "it's just overpriced rebagded Philips" and my family think I'm crazy spending "that much money on just TV and HiFi". They don't judge my brother for spending over 30k euros on a brand new standard car or my brother in law with sailing boat with all that costs. That's why I hang around with you guys instead. Here we can discuss B&O in a more qualitive way.

It's not common either for me but since I live in Denmark B&O is everywhere. I can go to thrift stores and find it. The latest being a Beomaster 1700 '80s with mint Beovox s45-2 on stands in palisander for not much.

Dealers are in all the bigger towns and Dillen is 4 hours away.

There is no backslash for being into B&O in my family. Both set of grandparents and other family members had it back in the '70s so its okay.

Pretty much in the same situation myself. None of my friends own B&O, and they too think I am mad. When I brought my BV3-32. someone at work could not understand why my stand cost the same price as his TV and surround sound setup. He just could not undertand the difference.  My Parents own a Beocenter 4000, but that is only because I gave it them as my Father had alway coveted my B&O.

Craig🙂

Same story here!

My very good friend had/has Bang and Olufsen for as long as i can remember and this is what started my addiction im sure.

I have one person who i can talk to about it and then i have you lovely people.

I also hear the Phillips with a different dress all the time.

Yep same here too, it's a lonely place to be sometimes! :(

Our nearest dealer is three hours away and our preferred dealer is five hours away. I do not know anyone else who owns any B and O. However, I can still take great pleasure in all the non B and O people who see it in our house and our amazed at the picture and sound quality. One of my best friends is constantly upgrading his speakers, changing amps, has a dedicated theater room at his house with theater seating on multiple levels, etc. He viewed our new BV 7-55 recently and after watching it for awhile, and making constant comments about the picture such as "amazing," he said he believed we have the best TV in the world. The lack of any fellow B and O owners locally being known to me is more than made up for by the amazement that non B and O owners have when they see and hear the products.

The B&O brand is pretty well known here in Holland. Apart from the Beoworlders I met in person there are only few I know who actually own B&O equipment:

• One of my former colleagues had a Beocenter 9000 and an MX at home;
• My parents have a Beosystem 5500 and used to have a LX 2500 too. They bought it soon after I got my first B&O, a Beocenter 9300;
• One of my friends has a Beocom 4.