Quality lasts!!
tim993 said:
how did you end up with three???
i know a family that still has the same Quad hifi in use after 40 or so years, including the speakers that look like room heaters!!
We have the same Bang & Olufsen B&O system my grandfather bought new in 1970 in our Drawing Room, still going strong, serviced last year.
Beomaster 3000-2
http://beocentral.com/beomaster3000-1970s,
Beogram 1800 record deck
http://beocentral.com/beogram1800-1970s
and MASSIVE 12" woofer Beovox 3800 speakers
http://beocentral.com/beovox3800 (Bought slightly later)
Was stupidly expensive new, BUT exactly 40 years later its still working, sounds great, massive speakers and such solid built.
New B&O is nothing like, it, much flimsier and sound is good but not AMAZING, this was from the days B&O) were real HI-FI as well as style.
For my main system I still use a swiss Revox B-242 Power amp,
http://www.revoxonline.ch/index-endstufen-B242.htm given to me by a family friend when I was 14!
He went bankrupt in early 1990's, he paid £1,800 for it alone, in 1988!! Still going strong, 300watts RMS, and up to 1000watts if its Monoblocked!!
quality will last!
All 17KG of it!!
I have an '80s B&O Beosystem 5000 stack system which is cool to look at but not the same build!
http://beocentral.com/beosystem5500
Remember, as Mr Rolls said -
"The Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten..."
Sadly today for a lot of things thats just not true, over engineering does not exist anymore (as a 996 ower!!) ;-)!