B&O has anybody got their recent stuff?
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I recently went into our local B&O and I was well impressed with the Beosound 5. It was demo'd through beolab 9 while I was impessed with the system I find it hard to part with £5k+ for the speakers when they didn't sound as good as my current Cyrus system of cd8se 8vs2 + 8power and 3 PSxr's all into Quad 12L2's at a 1/4 of the price or near enough.
The salesman went to great pains to tell me in tests the B&O 'blew away the likes of Linn etc' He didn't come up with any reprints to back up the claim.
What I did like about the main system is that it can copy a cd in 2 minutes to the HD and it will play like a DJ/jukebox in that if you pick a style of song it will search through the Hd and play something by another artist.
I could buy a cd put it on and then if I wasn't sure about it,sell it and in some case nearenough get my money back if I wanted to.
The only thing is that with the B&O being powered speakers and I would have to get something compatible, so my question is, Has anybody bought the B&O head unit and used a different make of speaker? or even is it possible to do that?
I have posted in Avforums as well but I think most B&O buyers will not frequent such places as they think they have bought the best and forums are full of the mutiple boxes brigade :rolleyes
The salesman went to great pains to tell me in tests the B&O 'blew away the likes of Linn etc' He didn't come up with any reprints to back up the claim.
What I did like about the main system is that it can copy a cd in 2 minutes to the HD and it will play like a DJ/jukebox in that if you pick a style of song it will search through the Hd and play something by another artist.
I could buy a cd put it on and then if I wasn't sure about it,sell it and in some case nearenough get my money back if I wanted to.
The only thing is that with the B&O being powered speakers and I would have to get something compatible, so my question is, Has anybody bought the B&O head unit and used a different make of speaker? or even is it possible to do that?
I have posted in Avforums as well but I think most B&O buyers will not frequent such places as they think they have bought the best and forums are full of the mutiple boxes brigade :rolleyes
Steve748 said:
The salesman went to great pains to tell me in tests the B&O 'blew away the likes of Linn etc' He didn't come up with any reprints to back up the claim.
The BeoLab 9 are great speakers, and often not shown off to antwhere near their best in a showroom. Ask them for a home demo, and have a play around with them in your own room. I don't put a lot of faith in reviews myself and woud always get them home to see what I think. Have linked a couple below anyway so you can have a read.http://whathifi.com/Review/BandO-BeoLab-9/
http://www.bang-olufsen.com/Userfiles/File/Press/L...
I used to install B&O for Bramhall and Maccelsfied branches. B&O will tell you that if you want passive speakes you can runit through there seperate amp which I have done many times. They will also tell you that it is not possible to run powered speakers but this is not true. i have set up B&O to run Bose active speakers directly from the B&O 3000 (I think may have been century). Its been about 6 years since I was involved but I am sure the principle is the same.
(wow B&O connected to Bose its like the anti christ to pistonheads!)
(wow B&O connected to Bose its like the anti christ to pistonheads!)
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