Usually, turning on my BV8 is sufficent to get a lot of Wow...

Playing iTunes music on the various beolabs (using Airport express and not Beolink) with the iPhone as a remote creates some wows too... It's just science fiction for some people!😁

People love my BS4500. They always say wow! when I tell them it is from 1988. That's when they start asking a whole bunch of questions about the website and the nearest dealer.

At the same time everyone is like "Bang and who?" in the states. All they know is Bose as high end.

evman140 wrote:

At the same time everyone is like "Bang and who?" in the states. All they know is Bose as high end.

My personal demos have ranged from the following excerpt to folks that knew what they were looking at, but sadly, you are right! B&o is basically unknown in the states...

A young lady listening to my BM6000...

Visitor: You have an 8-track player!?!?

Me: 😕

I am glad Apple was mentioned. Regardless of your gear or your visitors' interest/knowledge or lack thereof, the one thing that floors everbody is picking up the iTouch and playing music on demand...

...Oh, I have an iPod, could you come over and set mine up to do this?

My sister came by a few weeks ago with her husband.

I said: I got that tv picked up.

When it was for sale I asked him if he could help picking it up.

My sister: Wow it looks like new!

Me: It's from 1998.

I then demonstrated how Beolink works.

My sister: Ah Beolink.

Not bad for an 11 year old Beovision AV9000.

It can be quite irritating when you have to explain everything to them. I wish B&O would really catch on over here. I feel like I am the only person in the mid west that knows anything about B&O.

evman140,

I too am feeling alone here in the midwest.  All too often people will think you're talking about Bose if you say B&O, so I just say Bang & Olufsen...which ususally gets the Bang & "What?" response.

Everytime we have visitors they all take looooong looks at our B&O items, but usually say nothing, if they ask , I reward them with a little encouragement to play🙂

I live in Montreal, Canada and I have to say that B&O is just little better known that in the US, but always regarded as elitist.

A good story is that I sold a pair of my reconditioned CX100's to a friend of mine and I helped him install them. My friend had these gigantic old speakers he wanted to get rid off.  Just about finished installing them when a buyer for them showed up to buy those big ugly things. He was directly smitten by the nice sound coming apparently of those big speakers and bought them on the spot at full asking price. When he was outside getting this car ready for loading those big speakers up, we realized those big speakers were already disconnected and the sound came from ..........the newly installed CX's ......
Now we had a dilemma , either confess to the buyer that what he heard came not from those big speakers but from the little CX100's or let the deal go through and sell those old big speakers .....

Well, I confessed and the buyer didn't go through with the deal but ended up buying a pair of CX's from me.  

My friend never forgave me for that and even less so for me introducing him to B&O.

He now has quite a collection of  the B&O 'classics' , much to his wife's dismay..... lol

i had a lot of "wow" moments with my friends,just pushing my home theatre (BV4-50,BL3,BL2,BL4000,BL7.2) with the dvd of BLACK HAWK DOWN movie....16bit audio version.Amazing,the helicopthers were landing in the living room ^^.

One thing the everybody notice is the beo4 is really heavy(i comment,this is not plastic garbage) :):)

Interesting Elephant. As a guest, my reaction would probably have been "WOW", what a show-off!!

What did you follow this up with, showing them your stamp collection for the next 3 hours?

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