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mykey-
Old Croc Joined: 03 March 2010 Location: ID/UK Status: Offline Points: 6114 |
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My sister has my older brothers B&O system in her shed. We're talking mid 80's and it cost as much as a car in those days. He loves his FUNK my brother Alfie.
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jbl_man
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Yep,i agree with you about the price Mike,when i was working in the Hifi trade in the late 70's,a customer came in to our shop,he had just been sold some pile of beocrap from B&O dealer,i remember him telling me is was £1200 or something nuts like that,a fortune in 1979....he was saying how dissapointed with the sound he was.
For the same money he could have bought a lovely hi-end Pioneer reciever/amp and BIG pair of Tannoys,or some medium JBLs from us. |
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Saturnus
Old Croc Joined: 13 July 2010 Location: Copenhagen Status: Offline Points: 2025 |
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The B&O ICEpower modules mentioned earlier being used in RCF amps, other pro amps, and reference hi-fi are designed, developed and produced by B&O. Ever since they stopped using Phillips and other OEM manufacturers parts and just sticking them in a fancy design about 8-10 years ago their stuff has actually been quite good. |
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wayward91
Young Croc Joined: 15 July 2010 Location: Leeds/Mancester Status: Offline Points: 676 |
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im not a great fan , just on the cost alone , the designs are nice though.. funny i was in a b&o shop yesterday , i made it clear i was only looking but they guy in there was very friendly, he showed me a speaker that looked like a big circle , sounded quite good for a large disk on the wall. not real hi fi imho . everything loogs great though and is likley to for a fair time... a hmv near me has some small cube shaped bipolar looking wide dispersion b&o speakers in the classical music bit , they sound nice, a notable step up from the jbl control 5’s in the main store, don’t know what the b&o’s are powered by but the jbl’s are on lots of rotel power amps . Edited by wayward91 - 02 February 2013 at 12:55pm |
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Saturnus
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They're not really bipolar. It's stereo with controlled wide dispersion speakers on each side. A direct copy of the half-Boominator design in a smaller package. B&O designs almost everything themselves. They do not use OEM amps. |
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dylan-penguinmedia
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You normally see B&W speakers paired with Rotel as B&W distribute them. We used to look after a bar and a club owned by a guy where he sorted some kind of deal with B&W - the more usual (602s?) in the bar and in the club (room 2 archway) a load of custom in wall cinema speakers and subs, all off Rotels. Sounded pretty good at first and saved loads of space. |
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colint
Old Croc Joined: 06 October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 5222 |
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well over priced and all about the pose value, you could spend a quarter of what B & O cost and get a much better system it all depends whether you wan't to look at it or what on it.
Personally for surround sound the KEF uniQ stuff take a lot's of beating for the price and I'd rather go for a Samsung panel taking into account you can now buy a full HD 60" plasma for 800 quid (my eyesight can't cope with 3D so I don't bother with it) My whole system with HD DVD player and Yamaha natural sound av amp come to less than 2 grand
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Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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GAZ.
Old Croc Joined: 16 January 2007 Location: Hertfordshire Status: Offline Points: 2433 |
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Yes old B&O tv's were pretty much all philips internals. I think there may have been another manufacturers chassis used in certain models too but I cant remember whos now. They're not the worst posh TV's though by any means. The very worst TVs at the B&O end of the market in my opinion are Loewe. I HATE them! Actually no, I dislike them more than that! |
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odc04r
Old Croc Joined: 12 July 2006 Location: Sarfampton Status: Offline Points: 5483 |
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For £7k you could get a 4K projector or TV easily and have change left over.
Can I come and install your mates house? Sounds like a classic of more money than sense. |
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_djk_
Old Croc Joined: 23 November 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6002 |
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Good looks, mid-fi sound quality, very high-end price.
PITA to service. |
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BradRWills
Young Croc Joined: 11 November 2010 Location: Reading Status: Offline Points: 504 |
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I was going to say that they are probably a PITA to service.
A bit like the old Volvo I had - Renault Engine in a space which the Engine wasn't designed for, led to several very loud kicking and swearing incidents when servicing it. Putting anything in a case that it wasn't designed for, is a PITA to work on generally..... |
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burningbush
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Wasn't every cd player a philips in a different case? I thought when cds first came out it was Philips mechanisms and what ever processing?
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