The 'Dark Side'.....

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Maybe sounds a little more sinister than the thread actually is, but I'd love to know what 'other' electrical brands BeoWorlders have in their homes..  Don't worry - i LOVE B&O and aren't straying from the pack, but my eyes are open when it comes to other brands..

Me?  I have a link in the bedroom (as well as my all-white 6500 system and all-white BL8000's of course, but my wife isn't allowed to fettle with them so the 'Zeppo' is for her) which sounds superb. A third of the price of a BeoSound 1 and 90% as good. The new B&O dock may change all that though..

I have the all-black i in the kitchen, which is perfectly adequate (although awfully designed and very plasticky) and sounds pretty good.  

link

For Headphones, i have the link's - which still give me goosebumps when i listen to them. They get a bit uncomfortable after a couple of hours, but i usually only listen for an hour or so - so no big deal.

I'm getting sick of running with A8's and finding the sweat that drips into my ears on a hard run nukes the earpieces. I'm on my fourth pair in 6 months and i'm not happy.  Looking at reviews, i'm considering as my 'road pounding buddies'.  I'm all ears for advice (pardon the pun) as i haven't made the final decision yet..

I'm also looking at the

9 LEE wrote:
As mentioned - i'm a BeoAddict for sure.. My house is crammed with it, and i work with it every day, but i'm interested in what else we B&O lovers.. love? 

Ditto, but I don't know about the "love" part, except perhaps my QUAD gear!

So, in no particular order...

QUAD (did I mention that? 😂)

Wonderful old KEF Duette DeLuxe w/ B139's (I hope to match with the QUAD)

Denon

Anthony Gallo

Old NAD

A pair of Philips TV's

Panny plasma and BD player

hmmm... I'll have to think of more!

Well the only non-B&O item I have is a Toshiba Regza LCD tv......thats it!

Interesting question Lee! Erm

I'm also a life-long Beoaddict, but there are some areas where I'm so in love with other products that I haven't even tried the B&O equivalent....

1) The ubiquitous iPod (3rd gen. Nano for me) - although this is docked to my Beosystem 3500 and controlled from my Beo4 using a little gadget I've soldered in! ❓

2) My Sennheiser Ovation II headphones (a hangover from my recording studio days) - they are just so comfy that I can use them for 8 or 10 hours at a stretch then get up and walk off with them still plugged in 'cos I've forgotten that I'm wearing them 😳

3) Kef ceiling speakers - my home is gradually buckling under the weight of Ci50-R mini-downlight speakers hidden in my ceilings.... My wife and I have an unspoken pact that if something is brought into the house and not noticed by the other partner, then it can stay.  My Kef ceiling speakers blend in so well with the downlighters in the kitchen, bathroom and dining room that we even got to the point where I was playing CDs and she didn't even ask why there was music without any speakers! 😂

Other than these little errors of judgement, it's B&O all the way......

Steve.

Tandberg: open-reel recorders and cassette decks + speakers like link

Akai: open-reel recorder, fe. link

Sony: Elcaset decks, fe. 

Oh my....completely forgot about my IPod touch!!

BenSA wrote:

Oh my....completely forgot about my IPod touch!!

...and I intentionally left out the "A" word -at least I didn't want to be the first to bring it up! 😂

Nowt much - Panny plasma, Sky box, PS3, iPod 5.5G 30Gb (full up and needing a rethink) and Sennheiser CX300 ear canal 'phones. I use these more than my A8's, they give much better sound isolation and are a lot less faff fitting on etc and don't interfere with my specs (and I find I have to keep re-tweaking the A8's cos, like all ear bud types, if the "seal" is broken you loose the bass).

I've also been given a 500Gb NAS drive that I need to put to good use - I haven't decided how yet (if some kind sort would like to supply an Encore for long term testing, I'm willing to supply my own drive)👍

Samsung & Olevia LCD Tv's with a Samsung and Phillips DVD players. No Blu Ray yet. A couple iPod nano's 2nd and current generation. Klipsch Icon speakers in the studio.

 

BBC LS3/5A speakers, Grado RS1 headphones given to me by a good friend, Sennheiser HD600s, iPods of various descriptions, an old Sony CD radiocassette (ridiculously good!) B&W DM10s (need re-capping - badly!) and the usual Wii and Panasonic recordable DVD/HDD/Freeview (I think it makes tea as well!)

I too am looking at earphones - I am thinking about the Sennheiser ones (? IE8) or the Ultimate ear three way ones (Triple fi 10vi). Not for running - more for listening to in bed!! 😂 Done something with my A8s - can't find them - slightly annoying as I have had many pairs over the years! Just not quite good enough. I was going to ask for opinions too! 😂

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