BANG OLUFSEN OVERTURE REVIEW & HISTORY

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• BJ

  @Bjornlovesjazz · 3 years ago

  as a child i used to abuse my parents Beo Center , open and close over and over again.. press the buttons hard.. try to push out the glass from the remote.. just being a bored kid out for destruction 🤣 anyway... it still works 30 years later

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• BL

  @blunderbus3702 · 2 years ago

  Thanks for the video. I saved for two years to purchase a 2500 in the early 90s. I still use it today and love the units design, operation, sound quality and solid metal weighty remote. Although I have been using computer tech and modern sound devices I still prefer the 2500 for CD and radio. B&O made great products, especially in design but alas for me their music centre designs in the past 18 years or so have not been so good.

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• ST

  @stephenhall3515 · 2 years ago

  Excellent overview. Thank you.<br>I had grown up with B&amp;O and my family had found most products to be worth the expense up to the end of the 1970s.<br>Being more or less grown up by then I tried early models of this system but soon realized that style over substance had won. In shops the seeming &apos;minimalism&apos; was attractive but in practice these (including the late ones) could be tricky to set up for best sound and the proprietary non-standard DIN cabling was almost as annoying as the function buttons. So I took mine back and embarked upon acquiring high quality separates.<br>Occasionally revisiting what sells under the B&amp;O name, there are some products which sound well and are made well but other things are just pretentious and probably thrown together in China.<br>The B&amp;O logo on some laptops and in cars is, to me, just trading on what was a justly celebrated company in the late 20th century.

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• JE

  @jeroenmeester9528 · 1 year ago

  Those weren&apos;t the first active B&amp;O speakers, the Overture is from 1994 and the Beolab Penta speakers were from 1987<br>The Beocenter 2300 was from 1991 though, and that&apos;s also when this design speakers hit the market.

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• BA

  @barrytroter1 · 1 year ago

  A fantastic video, I own the same system. Its been a joy to watch you overhaul yours. I think this was an era of B&amp;o that really won them that incredible reputation, I fear they are losing it with their modern era.....<br>Anyway you did a great job all the same !

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• LY

  @lyndapeterson9948 · 3 years ago

  That’s cool 😎

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• MA

  @martinjandijkstra3205 · 2 years ago

  I recently got my hands on a 2500. Replaced a belt and still working on them to get them 100% working. I agree with your opinion. I think these old systems will beat most the modern smart speakers.and soundbars. Besides the sound I like the design and its smooth and silent operation.

• PA

  @paulburton6321 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve just bought a Beomaster 4000. And a set of B &amp; O Speakers to go with it. Beautiful. &nbsp;Paul nz

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• DE

  @DeathDecider · 1 year ago

  Surprised to find a fellow kiwi talking on this

• ER

  @ermandomasciarelli · 1 year ago

  I prefere beosound 3200 because hel have a PIN and he can also read CD R

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• MA

  @marioumpierrez · 8 months ago

  Just watched the fixing video and left a messa there. I bought mine while traveling in France although I live in Uruguay. I bought it with BeoLab 4000 speakers in gold. They still sound beautiful after 28 years. I had to fix the power switch in one them and as I mention the door of my 2300 needed fixiing 3 times already plus the CD lens needed replacement. Today it still works and sounds amazing. Not bad at all for a piece of electronica in this day and age. Cheers!

• KE

  @kevinkevin-ug9po · 1 year ago

  The picture is a beosystem 2300

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