The 'Dark Side'.....

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Peter wrote:

Interesting thread..

I use Apple TV's and Airport express to my B&O gear in all my rooms. I listen less and less to CDs and watch less DVD's, usually rip it all and put it on a big RAID share in my network instead, much more practical. 

Interesting indeed. I find I am moving backwards toward the CD and away from iPod/computer sources. So much so, I've been heavily considering a new DAC for my BeoGram 4500CD...

Additionally, I've almost completely moved away from video entirely!!!

Location: San Francisco

I'm an automotive audio and acoustic engineer. I design loudspeakers and full sound systems for new automobiles. I also dabble with studio, consumer and pro audio projects from time to time.

Vandersteen 2Ci on the main BeoSystem 5000 in living room

Sonance Moderno M6R Ceiling Speakers in kitchen

Samsung 40" LCD, Onkyo AVR - TX-SR500, Set of Radio Shack Linaeum Pro LX-5 surround speakers in Family Room Theater 

Westinghouse 32" LCD, Klipsch KG-5.2 in son's room on his BeoMaster 5000

Emerson 32" LCD, Sony STR-DG600 AVR, Polk Audio RM6005 Sub/Sat in Master Bedroom Theater

Panasonic PT-AX100 Projector, Onkyo TX-SR606 w/iPod Dock, Oppo BDP-93, Vandersteen Home Theater 1 Surround System - 1B L/R, VCC-1, VSM-1, Home Made Subwoofer in the Main Theater

iPod Touch, iPhone, Grado SR60i

 

I am likening seeing what other equipment people are use, so here is my list of Non B&O equipment

LG 42PQ plasma TV

Medion computer which I have ripped all my music and DVD’s onto.

Lutron GRX-3104 x 2

Speakercraft MZC-66 multiroom system with 6 mode keypads

Itouch and Iphone

Thermomix TM31

Unfortunately 95% of the stuff I own is in a storage unit waiting for me to buy a new house, so all I have out is my overture and the Beolab 3000’s

I have the following:

Living Room connected to BeoVision 7-40 MK5:

Boxee Box

Apple TV Mk1

Sky+HD 1TB

Draytek 2820n Router

Western Digital 2TB NAS

Buffalo LinkStation 1TB NAS

 

Master Bedroom:

32" Samsung LED

Sony BDP-S370 Blu-Ray

Apple TV MK2

 

Guest Bedroom:

32" Panasonic LCD 

 

Study:

27" iMac 2.7Ghz Quad Core with 12GB RAM and 1TB Hard Drive

 

Kitchen:

Currently Bose Lifestyle 5 system with AirPort Express which will be changed to a B&W Zepellin Air next week

 

Other:

iPhone 4 S - 64GB

iPad 2 - 64GB

Bose Quiet COmfort 3 Noise Cancelling Headphones

 

I've added a Technics 1506 Reel-to-Reel player to my setup. Works excellently together with the Beolab 5000.

I've also placed a Revelation M phono-stage from Graham Slee between my Beogram 3000 and the Beolab 5000. The Revelation M has different EQ-curves, in addition to RIAA, which I can use when listening to records from the 50s, made without RIAA-EQ.

 

At the moment only Non B&O stuff I have for entertainment is my Mac Mini (music library) and a Topfield HD digibox. (No point using the BV10's since it won't work with Pay channels in Finland!)

Soundproof, that is what I like to see!

She's a beaut.

Location: San Francisco

I'm an automotive audio and acoustic engineer. I design loudspeakers and full sound systems for new automobiles. I also dabble with studio, consumer and pro audio projects from time to time.

My dark side include

E-machines comp. for only music, but as Evan going back to my CDs.

LG 42" flat screen, Onkyo TX-NR 708, LG Blu-ray, 2 x LG 32", 3 CD players (Philips/Sony), connected to vintage

2 x Ipods not working, 2 x DVD players not in use, 4 x video recorders not in use, one of them can convert from Europe to US system.

4 x Panasonic cordless phones, had to put my 3 x Beocom 6000 in store as they interfered with my wireless.

 

 

Location: Mexico city

Retired
Printing machine technician
Restored various 1960-70 items
Rock and Roll music
Collecting Vinyl
Restored Jukebox Wurlitzer 1050

Silver side (in the household):

 

  • iPhones X 3
  • iPods X 3
  • MacBooks X 3 (one an Air)
  • MacMini 
  • Apple TV
  • iPad

 

All acquired in the last 3 years - no wonder Apple's stock price is so good :-)

Dark side:

 

  • a Samsung monitor attached to the MacMini for display of LinkPlayer as I now have the BV8's HDMI (thinking of an Altona 4X1) dedicated to the ATV2
  • some old kit I should throw out such as Sony portable cassette players, Sony portable radios
  • a combined VCR/DVD player/transcorder that we just bought (oh boy did that hurt) because we saw "The Iron Lady" and the Fabric Selector got misty eyed about transferring our family memories from VHS to DVD
  • Sainsbury DVD (will probably go since we have the combo unit which is hopefully multi-region (note to self, check this!)))
  • Wii
  • PS2
  • and FoxTel STB 😂

 

I got in

1st floor Livingrooom:

  • BeoSound 5 with BeoMaster 5
  • Beovision 7, Mk III
  • BeoLab 7-4
  • BeoLab 9
  • BeoLab 4 with stands
  • BeoCom 5

Livingroom dark side:

  • HD Humax Boxer
  • UPS CyberPowerCP1350 EAV LCD, for uninterrupted power supply
  • Playstation 3 for BluRay
  • ReadyNas Duo 2*1TB for backup       (not part of the system)
  • Netgear Router WNDR 3700, b,g,n network

And a Red Tivoli Audio Songbook in kitchen

2nd floor

  • BeoVision 3-32, connected to livingroom via MasterLink
  • Panasonic DVD player with controller
  • BeoCom 2

3rd floor, guestroom

  • MX 7000, stand alone, was to tricky to connect with cabling...
       might add a preowned BeoSound 4 

Plus on the darkside in general:

  • iMac 21"
  • iPad 64GB WiFi
  • iPad 2, 16 GB WiFi
  • iPhone 4S 64GB
  • iPhone 4S 16GB

On the wishlist... let's see what B&O has in mind for future product release...

  • But a Beo6 is really interesting...

That was a bit...

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