My first B&O was an Ouverture with a pair of beolab 2500 bought in Italy that I brought to the UK years later.

It was quite an event as a hand luggage! 😁

Still with me with a pair of beolab 6000 instead plus many other Bang & Olufsen products.

I think I forgot why.

B&O was among the best quality when growing up so if it was B&O it would at least work for some time to come.

The Beogram 2000 looked design wise great and it was cheap too. When the whole system came together with an Attycca II stand it really looked great. The thing was that it was not really planned to have a complete 2000 system but happend when purchasing a Beocenter 2000. I have the flat and silver but it does not work. Bring it along and we can make a deal or something. I did not even know what he was going to bring. Another Beogram 2000? No it was BM and BC so next day service and finding something to put it on + suitable Beovox's. 3 weeks later there you have it your first B&O system.

Later I was interesting in hearing what a Beomaster 6000 and 8000 really sounds like + I found the design cool and still do.

Its an addiction but I'm happy with it.

Back when VCRs were the go, my first purchase was a VX7000 VCR. I bought it locally secondhand (and lightly used). Little did I know at the time that you needed a Beovision to use it! So, I then had to buy an MX7000 to match it 😁

I don't own the VX7000 anymore, it was actually bought from me by a fellow Beoworlder off eBay! (Beoaus) It was sheer coincidence, and we lived in the same street!!! He just walked down the street to collect it!

I knew B&O from my teenage years as a few guys I went to school with had systems in their parents homes. One friend wouldn't even let me near the remote 😮 His house was literally filled with B&O. He had a Beocenter 9500 with Beogram 9500 turntable and either CX100s or In-wall Beovoxs in every room of his parents very large house. I was very jealous...

Now I have the B&O disease...

Michael,

It was 1971 and I'd been left some money in a relation's will.  I bought a Beogram 1000 in Teak from my local dealer, along with a Rotel amplifier and a pair of Wharfedale Dentons. 

Looking back, I still can't understand why I bought the amp and the Dentons and not the Beomaster 1000 and a pair of B&O speakers, or even a 1200 system.  In those days, B&O was sold by knowledgable dealers who also sold other makes and it is just possible that they didn't have the whole B&O product range.  Even though I wasn't so conscious of design then or of B&O as a  brand, I can't believe I wouldn't have been totally smitten by the 1200 system if it had been in the shop.  In my impetuous youth, the money would have been burning a hole in my pocket and I would have wanted to buy somthing there and then. 

Hopefully I've moved on a bit since then!

Cleve

jldmelb wrote:

it was actually bought from me by a fellow Beoworlder off eBay! (Beoaus) It was sheer coincidence, and we lived in the same street!!! He just walked down the street to collect it!

Too funny :-)  I don't think anyone in my street has B&O *scratches head*

jldmelb wrote:

One friend wouldn't even let me near the remote 😮

Was it in the pool room ? :-p

Form 1 in 1988, it was the only B&O I could afford when I was 16. Still have them, but now planning to get A8. Would look silly with Form 1 to my iPhone on the morning bus. 😁

Daniel wrote:

Form 1 in 1988, it was the only B&O I could afford when I was 16. Still have them, but now planning to get A8. Would look silly with Form 1 to my iPhone on the morning bus. 😁

Be a hero, and wear a pair of U70's. The kids with their Skullcandies will drop dead 😂 I've been waiting for the right occasion...

(on the topic, mine is on the left <--- )

Same here... First B&O product was a Form 1.. Followed up by a BeoCom 1600 ;-)

MX1500 from Guildford in 1989.....Yes I know it was technically a Philiips now, but back then I didn't care. I was 19 and spent a months wages on it!

It only died about 6 months ago, its in the loft as I can't bear to part with it!

I had always loved B&O from a very early age age and what an expensive addiction its turned out to be!!

The year was 2008 and I had just been given a Beomaster 4500 and Beogram 4500CD by a very generous neighbor. He did not have the Beolink 1000 anymore so I had to buy a Beo4 😎...and that is the story of my first purchase!

My first equip purchase was a pair of BL5000 speakers 🙂