What started YOUR love for B&O?

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Hi Beoworlders,

I recently got the chance to go back to the B&O product that first started my love for the brand.  What first got YOU into Bang & Olufsen?

If you are interested to find out what started my 34 year obsession with the World's greatest audio brand, then all is revealed here:

Location: The cable workshop, England

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Beolab 6000 and Beolab 8000 speaker designs for me. For. my wife it is the A9.

Everything started with my parents having a Beovision LX2500 and VHS91.2 for video, and a Beomaster 1900 and Beogram CDX for music when I was a kid (no B&O speakers). Then I bought my first couple of B&O toys in 2001: an A8 earset and a Beosound 1 1st gen in light blue.

Now the house is full of B&O from all periods...

1976 in my favorite record store when I first saw a Beogram 4002. I immediately had to have one and have used Beogram turntables ever since. 

-sonavor

1973: my Aunt’s Beomaster 3000-2 and matching Beogram 3000.

Thanks for asking!

Young, I worked in an advertising agency from which B&O was client, i remember the Beosystem 2300 or 2500 in the boss office.
I'm responsible for a (at that time) vanguard 3D animation showing a truck full of B&O stuff to demonstrate sound quality at your door.
And also, having discovered that any big photoshop image shown on a tv screen looks like 100x time more crisp than any tv program, to rush into boss's office saying "we need display estate, a B&O store is full of it through the BV screens, lets fill them with our content".

Well at that time, any B&O stuff was well beyond my reach so i was mostly sharing the "style over substance" trend…

Like 20 years after, i was dinning at friends house and at some point, unable to concentrate on the discussion because music was so lifelike, so present and so… I dont know…

Looked at the system and it was a Beocenter "Ouverture like" can't say which, and BL6000.

Go back home, look for second hands ads, bought one… and there it was just the start…

Location: Paris France

Hi,

 

In 1975 I worked just off Fleet Street in London. Every day I used to walk up Ludgate hill and there was a small B7O dealers with the showroom underground. When I walked in there I fell in love with the style and quality. At the time everyone else was producing boxes that all looked the same but B&O was different. I made my first purchase there and have owned various B&O products ever since.

I remember seeing a black and white cased TV in the window of B&O Wells years ago (now long closed) that seemed so different to any other TV at the time.

But the BeoSound 9000 was the item that really started it.
My mum was a nurse and after my dad was kicked out, not a very rich one. But one thing of luxury she always ensured the house had was a Beovision. So from about 1980 we’ve always tried to keep up what was a potty tradition.

BC Ouverture for me too.

I was a teenager and the BC O was on display at the local hi-fi store.

Modern, elegant, in another league compared to the other systems.

I had the green light from my mother, first time I saw her interest in a piece of technology!

Unsurprisingly I could not afford it but I was in search of a cd music system for my room and I saw the Century.

The Ouverture was so far from my reach that I didn’t dare to ask for the Century, I thought it would have been on the same price range, and B&O marketing approach had a bit of snobbery in my country.

Looking backwards if a salesman would have described features and price (the Century would have been the perfect fit for my room, better than an Ouverture), I’d have pulled the trigger for the Century instead of the Denon etc. separate hi-fi system.

TV sets didn’t get my interest, it was the time for friends, music, long summers...

Good memories. 🙂

Olivier

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