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Hi...
been a while since I have been on here... had to sell the M150's to fund my daughters school uniform. Anyway, I was lucky enough to secure the purchase of a set of Beovox 5000 flat panel speakers, I'm calling them my 40th birthday present to myself. They do not have their original mounting brackets and whilst I know I can get some reproduction ones... I am a little loathed to part with £60 for new ones.
Has anyone ever hung these without using the brackets??? with any success??? I was thinking of some heavy duty wall anchors and square head coach screws??? ...or should I stop being so tight and just get the proper ones.
I am going to run them via a MCL amp is this a good match? or a little lacking?
As always any advise and ridicule appreciated
Martin
2121marty: I am a little loathed to part with £60 for new ones.
So was I and I hung my Beolab 5000s on a pair of suitably sized conical head screws. Square coach screws might be even better.
The biggest downsides are that they won't take much of a bump to fall down (do you, or any of your prospective guests have small kids?) and you have to drill very accurately. The speakers are tall enough that the slightest height error at one screw will result in a painfully obvious tilt of the entire speaker. The original brackets would allow adjustments (the mounts on the speakers have a place for a screw you can adjust from above).
My wall is reinforced concrete so there's no problem with anchor strength - but I had to change from my original position once because I hit an impenetrable steel bar.
--mika
I have no practical experience of using an MCL amp with these speakers. I have only used a 1960s Beolab 5000 or a Beomaster 8000 to power mine.
I would have thought it would be a little under-powered. It's not a special amp, but will certainly do a job.
Buy the brackets is my advice. As Mika said, it's very hard to get them level without and the inbuilt adjustment on the original brackets helps massively once you've got the bracket ever so slightly off-level!
Ahh yes that makes a lot of sense, they are rather impressive in size, yours look great!!!!
We do have some little hands here but I was going to place the speakers relatively high and chase the speaker wire into wall.
Thanks for your advise
I thought MCL amp might be a tad on the weak side for these, it will have to do in the mean time till I can get a???? Beomaster 6000 maybe??
2121marty:...or should I stop being so tight and just get the proper ones.
They are to nice a speaker to risk damage, spend the money now and enjoy them for your 50th !
I think that would be a great match. I had a 6000 and it's a really nice little amp - smaller than an 8000 and would easily have enough in the tank to handle the 5000 panels.
Hi Martin,
just to make sre: you mean the amp in the MCL/ML Converter? http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=984
I used/use that one for both the BeoVox 5000 and the 3000.
Nothing wrong with that!
And...you should opt for the original brackets - not the screws.
Enjoy your new friends - in my opion they sound great in the right place.
Greetings Millemissen
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Decided to buy the brackets, sold some C75's to pay for them, good job too as the wall made the drill wander about a bit. Screw to adjust worked great.
Now not sure wether to chase in speaker wires or make a feature of the functionality of this wall art by buying some nice oversized speaker wire in white.
Cant remember how to post a pic... its been a while
I know they are a little close together but had little choice as the TV has to go in the corner... so I centered them within the width of the wall
Very close together I should say... but you can improve this quite a bit by just swapping them around. In these speakers, the drivers are vertically centered behind the fabric and visually the metal part is just dead space.