Henry wrote:

Concise Oxford English Dictionary:

pseud n Brit informal a pretentious person; a poseur

But then you know that and are just trying to troll me.

No, I didn't know that (I'm Danish and have Danish as my first language).

Henry wrote:

Because I'm a pseud with more money that sense?

Thank you for the perfect example! 🙂

Electrified wrote:

Nickyg63 wrote:

I shouldn't they are more like beko than Bang & olufsen, you would spend more time at the range rover dealers than the B&O dealers!

LOL, well, since I wouldn't know what to use it for, it would probaby be okay. I have heard similar stories about Ferrari, though.

As it is, I'm perfectly happy with our Lupo 3L and our C30 D5. Both works a treat for our use.

 

Difference is though. When a Range Rover breaks down, it's called unreliability. When a Ferrai breaks downs, it's called character.😂😂

Craig🙂

Is Ferrari owned by Apple then?

Craig wrote:

Difference is though. When a Range Rover breaks down, it's called unreliability. When a Ferrai breaks downs, it's called character.😂😂

Hehe, I thought that only applied to Alfa Romeo, but perhaps that works with any Italian car? 🤔

Can't say I 'buy' B&O as such

But, I've owned a fair few over the years. My first was a Beomaster 1400 with Beovox 1702 that I got at a jumble sale (mentioned in another thread) for £3 each. The Beomaster wasn't working so I took it to a guy who repaired hi-fi stuff. Turned out I should have connected an arial! That cost me £25!

I later sold the Beomaster, in the for sale ads before Ebay for £25. Another guy called and said I could have got up to £400!

Most I paid was £250 for a Beomaster 5000 and Beovox S80s. It died after the selector pad kind of collapsed and was not repairable. I binned it and gave the speakers away! I've owned a Beocenter 2000 but I think the 80s was essentially dead designwise and this was a good example with too many exposed sliders - the age of the 'graphic equalizers' the more the more impressive!

I suppose my favourite would be the Beomaster 8000 for sheer audacity of design. Beo-utiful!

Anyway, what attracts me to B&O are the visual aesthetics in the first place, next it the actual handling - the tactile quality, then the sound which doesn't disappoint.

It's not only B&O that I'm attracted to. There are Thorens and Lenco for their record decks; Quad for their amps and tuners and Tannoy for their speakers (had a pair of Buckinghams once!)

See here for some B&O bits I've owned link

and here for Quad link

I buy for the looks, the sound and the materials used. The ergonomics are also important. In my humble opinion, the product that most epitomises everything that was best about B&O was the

Hi

This is the type of question that we all have to answer to ourself when we buy B&O. I mean they are not cheap and people at visit ask this question now and then.

My answer is that you can have very good sound at home with an equipment that does not take over a part of the room. Further, the equipment from B&O is, as many describe, stylish. As a bonus you get a simple but well working multiroom possiblility that can be expandable. When we started looking at B&O, we thought that the multiroom possibilities was maybe too simple. But after have lived with ML in two zones for a while now, we think it is quite enough.

However, I can not say that the B&O solution is simple. The equipment is best installed by proffesionals and I definitely do not think that the equipment is easy to understand. I think that Beo4 is a very bad remote. It was probably good for some ten years ago compared to others, but not today compared to iPhone e t c with 2 way communications or multi remotes. I hear though that new technology is coming from B&O as well. When it does, I hope it is not too late.

I like B&O and their concept a lot but not everything. It is tragic that TVs from B&O have ended up with todays price tags. We wanted to get another zone, a telephone and a TV installed before christmas but our installer had not the time. The installation will be in a couple of weeks instead. We will buy beovox for the music zone, beocom 5 and a Grundig TV 40". I wish that the TV could be B&O, but they are simply to expensive.

I hope that 2011 will be happy for you all

Clakke

Clakke,

The two-way B&O remote is here:

Electrified wrote:

Clakke,

The two-way B&O remote is here:

 

link

 

🙂

Hi Electrified

Thank you, I have heard about it here and read about it. From what I understand, it won´t do so much difference with our BS4 for the moment😁

But this was what I mentioned in my post. They could be really good these future products. I just hope that it is not to late. If they had released the encore a little earlier, we might have bought it. Now we already have beoport and iPhone. Well, I will not say no already.

Clakke