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I know sound is a matter of personal taste, but I shook my head a bit, when I read the comments on this thread...
That's one of the reasons why I buy so much B&O equipment whenever I come across it, cause I can't bear the thought of if someone like the persons in the thread above should get hold of it...
Feel free to post links to similar head-shaking topics like the eBay auction with the "slightly" modified BeoMaster 901 Søren linked to.
/Dennis
Well, the thread is from 2011, so the speakers are surely destroyed and dumped by now, a couple of new surrounds, caps and some TLC would have saved them. At times I do buy B&O I dont need, cheap but maybe saveable. But at the moment all US bay prices went haywire, so I will have to wait for better times.
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
I suspect that the poster on that particular forum and the individual who replied to his post are both the kind of individuals who would kick a puppy.
John
Unfriendly comments like this about B&O are very common all through the world. I guess they are most of the time from people who have never got anywhere near B&O equipment. Those gents' favourite comparison is Bose stuff, which I will steer clear of. The only common factor between those brands is high price-tags.
But why B&O is systematically rejected by the audiophile community I cannot understand. I know people who get scared at the idea of turning the tiniest screw of a Beomaster, and who just love Japanese contemporary equipment, often not so well designed (boxes full of air).
Oh well.
Jacques
Typical comment from someone who has not listened to a pair. The surround on the phase link unit does perish though and these will probably also need new capacitors, of which there are a lot! However these are well balanced accurate speakers if a bit on the large side!
Peter
chartz: But why B&O is systematically rejected by the audiophile community I cannot understand. I know people who get scared at the idea of turning the tiniest screw of a Beomaster, and who just love Japanese contemporary equipment, often not so well designed (boxes full of air). Oh well.
My guess for this, having read a few issues of Stereophile and hung with an audiophile many years ago, is probably due to the active speakers with digital amplifiers and the lack of needing to "tweak" their system with various add-ons of questionable worth.
D
what a waste - I'd love a pair for free!
On a similar note some friends of mine bought a sound server and had some bespoke system installed around the house coupled to plasma TV;s - cost well over £30k - they dissed B&O and thought this much better. Upshot was that the remotes never worked, TVs constantly failing and five years later completely out of date - they moved house and had to leave it all in the old one and start again - had they bought B&O they could have moved it with them and it will still all work with new stuff! Cant help but laugh at some peoples ignorance.