My first encounter with B&O was at a Brookstone store in Fashion Valley, in Sand Diego - CA, during the summer 1994.

I just discovered the magical features of a BS2500. Those sliding doors, the incredible sounds coming from the small BL2500 astonished me.

That day, I new I would stick to B&O forever.

Cheers,

Guy

1970. Wandered into the  Beaver Radio shop in Whitechapel Liverpool, close to the then Beatles famous NEMS music store and Rushworths Music (all now defunct.) Saw a 1200 tuner/amp. So distinctive with its slide rule appearance. I hovered by it for far too long. Invited into the upstairs listening/ demonstration room I was soon being offered the radio with a pair of ex demonstration Beovox 2600 speakers. I took the package and was back within months for a 1203 turntable (with which I had a less than happy start-see thread elsewhere.)

The 1200 & 1203 still sit on my bookcase with the 2600's mounted on rubber- damped wall brackets although I have to confess to using radio via CRT Beovision far more these days.

Vikinguk

My dad telling me that there were TVs out there that were so thin (back in CRT days).

But for me it's now discovering my music on my imac with my earset.

1977

My father had a home demo from the local B&O dealer. Eventually he chose a Beomaster 1100, a Beogram 1100 and pair of Beovox S30's which became much loved members of the family for the next several years. The Beomaster and Beogram are long gone but he still uses the S30s on a daily basis as his main speakers.

While he was there we also saw a demo of the Beomaster 1900 which seems so uinbelievably advanced with it's lights, smooth lines and touch-sensitive controls that it seemed like a true product of the space age.

Fast forward 30 years and I was struggling to work out why my hi-fi built from relatively inexpensive but well-reviewed new components sounded so much worse than my fathers 15-year old system built around a 30 year-old pair of speakers. I won a pair of S30s on eBay for a nominal sum which proved to be a 'Gateway Drug' and the rest, as they say, is history.

Simon

First, I my friend show me catalog once, long time ago ....

And, for many years I could not afford it, but time is come and BS2300 was mine 🙂

It works for many years with bose speakers , but now he join the link setup ... 🙂

I guess it was bought in 1981 or 1982, as it was always there, well at least from whence I can remember things. We had a Beovision 8800, which lasted for many years, until my father succumbed to the desire to buy a bigger one and opted for an (inferior) Philips. 😭

Now I have it all repaired though, as I have my 7-40 at home!

My first encounter was passing the local dealer (Cowlings of Leicester) on the bus to school every morning. I can remember peering through the windows at all the cool designs and wanting it, badly!

By luck one day, aged 12 or 13, I stumbled across an ad for a Bang & Olufsen stereo for £8 in the local paper. I went to have a look at it and to my delight it looked amazingly space age and certainly like nothing I'd seen before. It looked "Bang & Olufsen" and I bought it straight away!

It was a Beocenter 2200 with Beovox X25 speakers but I loved it! That was the start of a long standing B&O addiction which hasn't let up so far!

My very first encounter must be at my grandparents on both sides. Beovox S45-2 in oak and a Beogram 2202. Still in the family and works. Then there was the '70s Beomaster 2000 and Beolit 5..-7.. which I dont' know where its gone to these days.

The B&O virus did not hit me untill 2003. I got to see a Beocord 9000 in rosewood upclose. Yes I still got it.🙂