Om oss

My name is Bo Sehlberg, 49, living in Boden in the north of Sweden (100km south of the Arctic Circle). I am working as a Development Manager at TietoEnator. I consider myself as a music listener, with sound quality requirement above the average listener, but not a Hi-Fi expert (as many participants at Carlsson forum:-).
You can say that it was due to the magazine Radio&Television, that I started to use Carlsson speakers.
However the path to the Carlsson speakers hasn’t been straight. I read an article about the ”Popbox” and decided that this could be a good way for a poor student to get a couple of good speakers to a low cost.
But I did it in a slightly different way. I had learned to know the owner of radio shop in the town and once when I visited the shop I discovered a pair of OA5. That gave me an idea to try to measure the speakers, to be able to build a pair of ”real” OA5 instead of the “Popbox”. Since the article in ”Radio&Television” described the theory and solution I could guess the design of the inside of the cabinet. I went home and bought the material and started to build my own ”OA5” speakers. I was really satisfied with the result, and after this I built two more pairs for my brother, sister and a friend.
But I wanted ”adventure” and do new discoveries, and horn speakers seemed to be cool. Once again it
was ”Radio&Television” that brought me into this new path with a huge bass horn and some small side systems. I sold my ”OA5” to a satisfied buyer to get the money to buy material. I sold the horn speaker and build the famous Voight horn speaker, but was never satisfied with result.
However in 1977 I found a pair of second hand OA116 speakers in the same radio shop everything started. I bought the speakers with my last spare kronor. Now I was a happy owner again, I thought, but when I started to listen to the speakers I found that one of the woofers was damaged. I went back to the shop and they ordered a new element and fixed the speaker. From that point I have been a happy Carlsson speaker owner until almost two years ago, when I heard a strange noise from one of the speakers – it was the famous foam surrounding that was broken.
What a disaster! What could I do? I thought this was the end of a good friendship.
Just accidentally I found CarlssonPlanet and started to read about restoration of speakers. My lost hope returned, perhaps there was hope for a new life for my OA116. I sent a mail to Per Gulbrandsen and he promised to help me and restore the elements.
So once again I am a happy Carlsson speaker owner, but I still haven’t done a complete restoration, in time due I will probably do it.