This topic has allready been done a few times.

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Party pooper.

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I started because my father bought a Beovision 3400SJ which was brilliant. The dealer who sold B&O was also wonderful - Windows of the Arcade - and I wish they still sold B&O. I was at Medical School in Newcastle and so visited the shop regularly and started buying then. I still pop in from time to time as although they don't sell B&O, they do sell musical instruments and have a very good classical music department. 

When I was around 14-15 yo a new retail centre opened near my house. There was a small electrical and tv rental shop opened and they had a B&O dealership. In the window they had a BC9000 with RL60's. I was so in love with this system that I rushed home to tell my father, who laughed, and said "oh yes, very nice and very dear" he was never into audio as I was, and could not justify the cost for his interest (or lack of)

I then found out that there was another dealer in Aberdeen (Bruce Millers) I spent so many Saturday's drooling over the B&O in thier show room and pestering the sales staff for a Demo, there just was not anything came close to the combined look and sound of this equipment. I had beo-fever more than you could believe, but I didnt have the beo-budget to buy any for many years. 

When I was 17 and had my first car. there was a shop which sold car audio equipment. One day they had an Overture or one of it's clones on the counter. When I first saw the way the doors opened as you reached out towards it I was blown away. Turned out the shop also owned a B&O dealers next door. Promised myself that one day I would own some B&O. Now 15 Years later I have a House full.

Craig🙂

My story is not disimilar to Graeme's. I walked past a B&O shop in the 80s and fell in love with every product I could see through the window. I plucked up the courage to go in as a teenager to look around. I think one of the first products I ever saw was the BeoCentre 9000 and  some great TVs that I am not sure the model numbers of, but I know I liked all the products including the speakers. Then in the 90s I fell in love again with the BeoCenter 2300, so much so that I bought one on the spot along with a pair of BeoLab 8000s. These were my first two B&O products ever and I loved and cherished them more than I did my girlfriend! I used to just sit and stare at them when they were switched off or playing. The BeoSystem 7000 was another system I loved and when I first saw the BeoLink 7000 my emotions and feelings of excitement were uncontrollable! That remote; the way it lit up and the way it rose up and down was the most s-e-xiest (to avoid filters!) piece of gadgetry I had ever seen in my life. The mid 80s through to the 90s was an amazing time for B&O. Every product in the range at that time was the coolest in design and functionality that existed, at least for me. The BeoSystem AV9000 is one of my favourite TV designs ever. I could go on!

Simon.

Mine follows almost the same route. I was visiting a consumer fair in 1985 and the B&O stand was demonstrating the BS5000 with a CD player. The system looks and performance knocked me out. I was a student at the time and could not afford any B&O products. After the show I introduced the system to my girlfriend (current wife) who said nothing. She just thought that we can never afford a system like that.

Years passed and in 1989 B&O had a nationwide combo offer for BC9000, BV3000 and a Link box (MCL2).We gathered all our courage and took the offer and a BG9000. We still could not pay in cash but in part payment for one and a half year. The system cost was somewhere about three times my monthly gross salary (before taxes). But was definately worth every penny. After more than 18 years the system is still in use (in its 7th location) and have not had any faults. The only issue was caused by a mishandling during our move from Belgium back to Finland. Later I have expanded my setup with several other items.

After having the system for about two years I also succeeded in convincing my parents about the excellence of B&O. They decided to go for a full B&O A/V-setup for 4 rooms. The cost equalled to a normal car. It took almost a week from me to install and configure the system. Also this system is still in use, currently in its 5th location. The VX has died and the LX seems to be in the end of its life - sad.

The saga continues with my children. The BC9000 is a humble servant of my daughter and my son is desparately trying to save money for an Ouverture series product.

Like Mico I succeeded in convincing my parents to buy B&O. They´ve always thought that the brand was far too expensive. But they must have been genuinly impressed by my BC 9300. because 6 months after I bought my BC 9300 my parents bought a secondhand BS 5500 and a BV LX 2500.