Hi All,

Yep....another Aussie with their first post. You have all inspired me to finally sign up  after several months of lurking on the site - which I might add is simply fantastic.

I've a BS3200 with a couple of BL6000's as well as a BeoCom 6000 all of which I never grow tired of using or simply enjoying the aesthetics of.

What people on this forum say about the B&O bug is most certainly true - once you've been bitten it's incredibly difficult to remain rational.......my wife can attest to this!

Looking forward to chatting with you all here on the boards in the future.

Cheers,

Matt

welcome Matthew !

seems like we need another dinner soon to welcome all the new Melbournites !

Collins St.

I must add, I did not view SD content on it.  only Blu ray and HD. it had the 7-4 speaker on it.  Think they had a bond movie playing.

PS: There's a Visa Platinum demo night on 11 june - I emailed them but haven't heard back.

link

And a free Beocom 6000 for purchases over $10k on a single receipt with a platinum visa

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Hi,

I popped into the Collin Street store today but all they had was the mark III BV7-40 and the BV4-65 that was playing the Bond movie via a blueray player

I have heard about the Visa card deal, but had not heard about any demo night 

i was shown a BV7-40 with built in blu ray - i presume it was a mkIV as i didn't know that a mkIII came with this option?

i must add though Friday was their last day of renovations and things were getting shuffled, so it may be moved around?

the store site on the web also mentioned in-store demo of it (but site is now down for maintenance - wonder if anything new happens).

am going down on Thu probably, will ask.

Thank you for the words of welcome - much appreciated.

Have not paid the Collins St store a visit in a while. I'd be interested to know the scale of the rennovation. Any significant changes making it worth a visit?

Matthew wrote:

Have not paid the Collins St store a visit in a while. I'd be interested to know the scale of the rennovation. Any significant changes making it worth a visit?

I was in Collins Street yesterday: it is always nice to see the ladies, but only Anna was in - they have a new young salesman as well.

The remodeling was laying down a nice new carpet - nothing new in product or structual layout, but they are promoting an artist and had some brochures on the Beoliving area's coffee table and one of the paintings hanging on the wall.

A lot of the rewiring was incomplete, so for example they had to control the PS3 blueray game controller to demonstrate the Bond movie on the Beovision 4.

So not worth a going-out-of-your-way visit but certainly worth going in to appreciate the ambiance.

All we need now is for Camberwell's Beoliving area to be given a face lift ... oh, by the way, if you want to see something "new" then Camberwell have a very nice piece of furniture for their BV8-40 - I did not even know that it existed in the B&O catalogue ! 

spotted the Zegna store a few doors away with the BV8 in the front display window....good advertising

Saw the BV8 40 in DJ's Melbourne on Tuesday night (last night) when they opened their sale.  It's much better than I thought.  Also the pic was very clear, so it must have a larger resolution than the smaller models of the BV8.

They also have a BeoSound 5 which i played with for a bit - it's quite spectacular.  Perhaps I should invest in one of these.  Not sure how much one will cost with a set of Beo3 speakers.  

On another note saw the previous comments about the platinum visa card, pity i dont have one of those (good bonus with the shopping night)

In DJ's I was upstairs in the furniture section while they renovate the mezzanine where they normally live. 

My BAD!

I went in today - it was a Mk III - the lady meant it now comes with a built in blu ray player - not meaning that the one she pointed to was the one!

so yeah - mkIII screen was awesome - so i'm sorry Elephant if this builds any doubt on your purchase.

The BV8-40 was full HD and looked good.

they've almost got everything up and running post reno.  nice air-ier feel to the store than before i think.

only negative is the visit's got me hooked on a Beosound 4 and Beolab 4000 (can't quite the afford Beolab 3 for now). 

would be awesome if Beosound 4 and Beosound 3200 were merged and u have multi source capability with CD/Radio/Hard drive.