Seeing a BeoSound 2500 at the audio store....   I still remember the first B&O store in Detroit Michigan I walked into!!!    So many years ago!!

The first time I saw the Beocenter 9000 (was paired in t he store with redline speakers)
Just magic how the hidden doors open and close and how the remote controlled everything,

Still a very desirable thing I and totally iconic. 

Beomaster 1200 with Beovox 2600 speakers.

The BM was in the dealers shop window, and after enquiring about it I was offered a package including the Beovox 2600's which were on demonstration in the dealers demo studio above the shop.

Many many years later I sent the BM to Martin /Dillen for recapping. He found an oversized odd capacitor that was not original and so I concluded that the original dealer had not been entirely honest about this 'New' Beomaster. Nevertheless it has given great pleasure over many years, only to be replaced in terms of daily use by a wonderful white BM2000 (refurbed by Martin!) 

I now have stereo sound systems all around the house that can all be synchronised by Chromecast giving me the best of all worlds...... stereo, whole house sound,.......... and nothing has become redundant of products spanning 50 years!

Graham

When I was studying law, I would go into the Bang & Olufsen stop in Chicago and yearn for a sliding door music system such as the BeoSound 4000, BeoSound 2300, or BeoSound 2000 (these are the names used in the U.S. instead of Ouverture, BeoCenter 2300, or Century). My small reward to myself after passing the bar exam was a red BeoCom 1400. After my first big case, I awarded myself with a BeoSound 2300 with Beolab 6000 speakers. I remember the BeoSound 2300 arriving the same day as the CD box set of "Kristina fran Duvemåla." The CD had to be imported from Sweden and was insanely expensive. That was the first CD I played in my BeoSound 2300.

I saw an article in an interior magazine that featured a Beogram 3000 somewhere in the mid eighties. I bought a Beocenter 9300 ten years later.

I'd been aware of them since college days, the stereo store three doors down from the one I worked in sold them. No interest back then as I was drinking the "high end" kool aid and didn't give them the respect they deserved.Fast forward to the mid 80's, I had just bought my first house, and was trying to find a way to make a more design focused audio setup. I saw the pizza box system, and was floored by it. Sooo sleek, all sides finished, no rough edges or cheap stamped metal boxes, and the fact you could control everything from the remote, tape, LP, CD, and tone controls, etc. I loved the big table top remote with bidirectional communication.

But, I was house poor, so I did some custom cabinets, actually a fair amount cheaper than the Beo stuff, and bought a BG3000. With an MMC5. Hated the sound, should have gotten a better cartridge, so I gave the table to my father and went back to a VPI manual table.

Then, in the late 90's, I was just completely floored when I first saw the BS9000. Instant lust, I knew I absolutely had to own one. I was also no longer house poor, I made a lot more money, so I grabbed it, originally using it to drive my MacIntosh tube amp and regular speakers. I took a pair of BL8000s home and not only did my wife just love the design (me too) but for some reason they sounded better than any speaker I'd had in that room, and I went through a few trying to find something that worked with the room/furniture layout and the rooms oddball acoustics. Unfortunately my father passed away right before then so I got the BG3000 back, and the Beo dealer suggested the problem with the table was the cartridge. I bought an MMC2 and the sound quality was night and day. So, at that time, I was all B&O except for the cassette deck, which never got used.

Now I have added BL9's, a Beolit 15, A3, and have recently picked up a BM2400, BG4002, and BC5000 to restore. Keeping my eyes open for a good pair of BV4-2s.

I started Bang&Olufsen with a Beosound 3000 in 2000, after dreaming of a Beocenter 2500 for several years. Adding more and more Masterlink products over time until I had in every room at least one Masterlink product. In 2016 I changed to NetLink with a Beosound Moment and some Beosound 35s. After several disappointments with these new B&O multiroom system I moved on to Sonos as my current multiroom „back-bone“. Since a view months I experience Roon and I really enjoy it.

Your observation is really interesting. So I had a bunch of B&O gear in early 2000s. I sold my beovision to get. Pioneer Elite plasma and then decided to get Sonos for streaming. I packed away all my B&O gear and replaced everything with Sonos. Then I got an A9 since Sonos 5 wasn’t working well in my living room. The A9 just looked and sounded so much better. Later, when AirPlay 2 came out I brought back my Beolab 8002/2 and connected them to my TV and Apple TV 4K. Again, the difference between the B&O and my Sonos Soundbar and Subwoofer was huge. At that point, I took out the rest of my Sonos gear and replaced them all with B&O and AirPlay 2. So I ended up doing just the reverse. There is no going back to Sonos for me....I also ended up buying new B&O wireless speakers like the M5, Stage and BS1. I am really happy with them so far. I also got a Core to connect my older Beolab 11/6000 and the DAC and performance is better than a Sonos Connect, which was the last piece of Sonos gear I retired. 

‘I agree, B&O support (in the US at least) is poor and that is a problem for them. Sonos has excellent online support. 

Roon  is awesome software. B&O should add Roon to their software for sure. If I were in your shoes where you had invested in B&O’s software platform, I’d be pretty unhappy. Luckily, I never put too much faith in their software and worked around it as much as possible. I also happen to know a developer at Roon, they are only 20 people in the company in total (based out of NYC) and B&O could easily have the resource to do what they did/are doing...

Just my 2 cents worth...