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Dave Hutton: Here's a quick snap I took just before the builders start chopping the ceiling about to get a wood burner in the corner. Not much B&O on it but shows my speakers in what I think might be their final spot. I'll see if I can get a better picture of the setup when the work is complete.
Here's a quick snap I took just before the builders start chopping the ceiling about to get a wood burner in the corner. Not much B&O on it but shows my speakers in what I think might be their final spot. I'll see if I can get a better picture of the setup when the work is complete.
Please do share the "after" picture with the wood burner in the corner with the classic 8000s in the frame. Also, love that chair / ottoman. My wife and I purchased one in a darker finish this past weekend. So comfortable! It's going to be my music listening chair.
Millemissen: Unless you....start to boogie 💏 😉 MM
Unless you....start to boogie 💏 😉
MM
Ohhhh
I see what do you mean with boogie
no, no! I love all those 20 little snoopy fingers more than anything but 20 are enough
Theomaster
Vintage Bang & Olufsen
Mi casa
my work
Will do - should be finished tomorrow when its not raining.
That chair is probably my favourite tv/music chair too, you can 'bounce' it in time with the music - many a time I've dozed off on that :-) Had it ten years plus, from Ikea, called pang or pong, something like that. They still do them and in leather its been very well wearing.
DJ
Dave Hutton: That chair is probably my favourite tv/music chair too, you can 'bounce' it in time with the music - many a time I've dozed off on that :-) Had it ten years plus, from Ikea, called pang or pong, something like that. They still do them and in leather its been very well wearing.
Exactly, it's "Poang" from IKEA. Love it! Have it in dark wood and black leather.
we tend to forget there is more to design than designing.
A little sneak peak of a soon coming major update.
Stay tuned!
/Dennis
Sal: Dave Hutton: That chair is probably my favourite tv/music chair too, you can 'bounce' it in time with the music - many a time I've dozed off on that :-) Had it ten years plus, from Ikea, called pang or pong, something like that. They still do them and in leather its been very well wearing. Exactly, it's "Poang" from IKEA. Love it! Have it in dark wood and black leather.
I have the brown leather version as my main listening chair.
Beosound Stage, Beovision 8-40, Beolit 20, Beosound Explore.
Dennis: Stay tuned!
To me, the 8000 still has a great wow factor! I really love this design.
Not my current setup, but this is how my student apartment looked like.
Short story: my neighbour came home on a wednesday at 2 in the morning, and he started singing opera.
The morning after I connected all six pentas, and listen to "very light" music from 7 to 9 :P
"You think we can slap some oak on this thing?"
Aussie Michael:Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea?
Another reason could be, that people simply don't have any money left for furniture after spending 10 grand on B&O equipment.
Ho Ho
probably because we spent all our money on B&O so can't afford an Ekornes chair, so settle for Ikea!
having said that the quality is a lot better than you might think for the money.
the kitchen units are especially good and having fitted 30 odd as display units in our hair salon recently, I have a reasonable idea. Ikea cabinets with glass drawer fronts, ikea shelving, ikea overhead lights, custom rounded worktop and corner shelves(there's a lot you can't see). Plus ikea kidney shaped worktop and units to make a custom display table for not much money. Saved a fortune doing it myself that way against having a shop fitter , plus easy to customise.
Lounge at home - I spare glass fronted drawer from the salon plus a couple of black kitchen units with glass doors, a bit of custom worktop from my buddy over the road and voila! 'designer' unit to house a recored collection in pull out drawer, tx2, books and all the cabling etc to join it all together.
Not forgetting the ikea dining chairs (done 15 years good service so far) teamed with french solid oak table, plus an Eileen Gray table - (sofa not ikea - make in the UK) Trunking still needs painting to match the walls.
With a bit of ingenuity a lot of the products can be adapted to make quite nice looking things - granted some of the items they sell are not of the best quality and that's reflected in the price. You wouldn't go there for a 'legacy' piece of furniture to last a lifetime, which is why I have a good mixture of suppliers in our house and businesses. Overall nice scandanavian designs at realistic prices. Plus they do hotdogs after the checkout
Good use of the ikea steel kitchen rack BTW Chris!
Wow. Do you not have a self-filter before you hit the "post" button?
But to answer your question, for every dollar I don't spend on a piece of furniture, I have another dollar to spend on record collecting. And my "rubbish from IKEA" chair suits me just fine.
I don't think Ikea stuff is rubbish, but the quality varies depending on the item. Sometimes I wish their stuff was maybe 50% more expensive and better built, but all in all I'm happy with what I've purchased from them, it suits my needs.
I think their chairs and such are better than their cabinets for example, but I have their cabinets in the living room. It would have been prohibitively expensive, and not given me the look I wanted, to go with something else. So I modified the cabinets, put cable holes and vent holes/fans in and made a quite nice AV cabinet that suits my needs. Sure, it's poorly made enough that if you moved it a lot it'd probably come apart, but I don't move it and it was easy to customize. And the gloss white looks quite nice, underneath the top of the line Panasonic plasma set and with the Beolab 9's. I'd rather have spent the money on the 9s than more expensive cabinets!
I have a kind of schizophrenic house, I have a very expensive Saarinen dining set, and cheap Ikea cabinets in the next room, but each serves it's purpose well.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Sorry to add oil in the fire but I was wondering as well... I really think that the beautiful design of B&O stuff deserves much better furnitures than Ikea. You don't need to only have expensive furnitures but some nice italian pieces or from Vitra for exemple are a perfect match with B&O. I prefer to keep some money to arrange a cosy design place to live in and enjoy my B&O toys sitting in my nice ottoman sofa from a well known designer. For me B&O is at it's best when visible in a nice environment but it must not be the only design pieces in the room. Some very nice lights are very important as well to create the cosy atmosphere. I don't want to live in a B&O showroom...
Jeff:I don't think Ikea stuff is rubbish, but the quality varies depending on the item. Sometimes I wish their stuff was maybe 50% more expensive and better built, but all in all I'm happy with what I've purchased from them, it suits my needs.
I'm with Jeff on this one. IKEA has served me well. I bought low end stuff after college when I was out on my own, but of late, my wife and I prefer the upper end things, which are indeed well built, sturdy when put together appropriately and look decent. I would never claim that IKEA items are the quality from the likes of BBItalia, etc, but they're good for what they do. And if you have pets or kids, well, IKEA is a great choice.
@aussie and benoit
B&O deserves good design (not every piece), that doesn't mean expensive. It is a pity for my wallet, that well designed pieces of furniture mostly are expensive, but even a BILLY shelf can be a marvellous piece of design at the right place.
@Jeff and Sal
Take these pieces: A Beolab 4000, a small table designed by Rietveld and poorly copied by Peter the Biker (10 boards 15x45cm, 4 latches, a handful of screws and much elbow grease), a nutcracker made in Bethel and a painting of Gdansk
The right mixture does the best job ...
benoit: Aussie Michael:Call me the devils advocate but why are there so many B&O buyers who value quality design and high endness happy with rubbish from ikea? Sorry to add oil in the fire but I was wondering as well... I really think that the beautiful design of B&O stuff deserves much better furnitures than Ikea.
Sorry to add oil in the fire but I was wondering as well... I really think that the beautiful design of B&O stuff deserves much better furnitures than Ikea.
Is there perhaps also a special dresscode, we have to watch out for, when listening to 'the beautiful design of B&O'
Com'on guys - this is about 'designing' your life the way, that fits you, and not about a 'particular style'.
Everything is allowed for - as long as you stand behind what you do!
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Dave Hutton:the kitchen units are especially good and having fitted 30 odd as display units in our hair salon recently
I hope you have enough time and money to take your own virtual haircut putting on a good pair of headphones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAFb8LYuxc
Congrats to your work!
I see many people here equalize "IKEA rubbish" statement with designer's products obsession. I am, btw, writing this on my IKEA work desk. Which, for that matter, IS rubbish. Only it still holds so it is not on top of my prios to replace it.
To some people Florence Knoll is just as good as IKEA, and that's alright as an individual opinion. But we can't put those two things realistically in the same basket. For the exact reason many people here faint when someone says LG has same (or better) spec'd TV as Beovision Avant for only a fraction of price (one tenth!).
Thing Aussie Michael was referring to (I assume) was: how contradicting it is, for some people to recognize B&O value prop ethos and design phillosophy and then fail to replicate the same logic on furniture (and elsewhere).
Duels:MM. The correct B&O dress code requires handmade boots
Remember seeing slippers on the forum - uuh!
(Well, maybe they were handmade).
Haha MM :) Converse and VANS all around for me :)
AnalogPlanet: Thing Aussie Michael was referring to (I assume) was: how contradicting it is, for some people to recognize B&O value prop ethos and design phillosophy and then fail to replicate the same logic on furniture (and elsewhere).
Agree, nothing wrong with Ikea - this is a Sheraton style TV Cabinet (originally held a Philips TV I think) I bought it on ebay for £9 - looks good with a BV8-32 in it - Penta;s now replace the S60's
Ben_S:Moving house so boxing up much of my collection. Here are a few highlights:
What a treasure-trove, Ben! And they all must weigh a TON!
Sal: Ben_S:Moving house so boxing up much of my collection. Here are a few highlights: What a treasure-trove, Ben! And they all must weigh a TON!
Brilliant trove of treasure . Especially the linear tracking turntables. Takes me back to when I was a lad and I was helping my dad chose the "music centre".
what is the red card with the question mark ? the instructions ?
Beo Century ,Beoplay V1, Beocenter 6, Ex-Beolit 12, Beotime , A8. Beolit 15 , Form 2i , Beolab 2000, Beoplay A3.Beosound 1
Wow, just wow! Stunning collection there, and all look to be in such great shape! Bravo!
Fabulous collection, is that a 4600, that's top of my wish list
Oops, I got so excited looking at all the precious things I wasn't paying attention
Ben! That's amazing.
Ben_S:Moving house so boxing up much of my collection.
A painful reminder of my move four years ago! Many of the same units as well. I think I drove some 4-5 round trips with my Volvo STW for the B&O kit alone...
Regarding Ikea furniture. Why not - the Scandinavian design cues fit great with B&O designs. Nowadays, they aren't crap either (apart from the cheapest entry level stuff). Just don't expect them to hold up for another disassembly/assembly round...
I have no problem watching my Sony TV and the Beosystem 6500 standing on (second hand) Ikea furniture, while I sit on the Artek 406 next to a Y805A
--mika
Duels:My new a2. Black and copper. Love it. Sound is great especially when on the wooden floor. Plenty of bass which is a pleasant surprise.
Duels that looks great. I just thought that would be an amazing colour way for the A2.
I just found out last week when i went to the dealer and he said the best place for the BL12 was also low on the ground next to a wall. He did the demo as it was playing and he was right.