Is it just me who has completely fallen out of love with this company?
The last decent product they rolled out was probably the BeoLab 50 which sounds brilliant, but it is frankly bulky and hideous no matter what awful textiles they dress it in, all the newer stuff after beosound 5 seems to be poor quality now, planned obsolescence in full swing, with confusing designs that look like there were too many people involved in the process who weren't on the same track...
I'm biased towards the 1990's & 2000's designs and the quality speaks for itself, all my stuff is still working without fault. A 21 year old SD Beovision 5 that's had a hard life and no one wanted but it still has near-perfect picture (much better than any new non B&o TV i've stumbled across), Beocenter 2 hasn't missed a beat in 12 years since I got it new, the AV9000 from 1994 in my bedroom which is also faultless except for the VCR which probably just needs lubrication in the right places... I'm seeing so many broken TV's popping up... Beovision 10, New Avant, etc... tv's that cost just as much as the Beovision 5 and 9 when they were new... am I the only one who's really really disappointed that the magic has left the building? I genuinely can't understand the justification of the price of these newer TV's. I almost like the one with the moving scissor speakers but it is still hideous when switched on.
Now all we have to choose from (besides the glorious BeoLab 90 and 50) are ugly apple products. The Televisions look horrendously cheap and are in fact cheaply made. What is with the speaker designs? The new ones with the moving wooden grilles, what are they smoking to think that would look nice? Even the highly talked up Beosound 1&2 speakers sounded quite off (artificial and mono). What happened to the pursuit of perfection and the quest to reproduce the original source? I sold the silly conical Besound 1 speaker and went back to having $2000 in my pocket using the BeoLit 12 which flat-out sounds and functions better. I must be getting old to be having a rant but i've been thinking this for years now. I'll just hang on for dear life to the favourite items i've kept; BL1. BL2, BL4000, BL6000, BV5, etc and when they fail and can't be repaired that's it, I'm done. The newer stuff just doesn't do it for me at all. Apologies if this has already been discussed, I haven't used the forums in years. I felt prompted to come back on here because I saw a photo with the new television called theater and i'm horrified they let that design go through. Surely people don't think this design is palatable let alone desirable? I thought it was a prank or someone had cleverly made their own B&O-style stand in their garage but no, that's what B&O are making now. Eye sores that will be broken after a couple of years.
David Lewis must have been one of the very best that B&O had and may ever have. Surely i'm not the only one shaking their head at all this... don't even get me started on that handbag speaker. :(
The last decent product they rolled out was probably the BeoLab 50 which sounds brilliant, but it is frankly bulky and hideous no matter what awful textiles they dress it in, all the newer stuff after beosound 5 seems to be poor quality now, planned obsolescence in full swing, with confusing designs that look like there were too many people involved in the process who weren't on the same track...
I'm biased towards the 1990's & 2000's designs and the quality speaks for itself, all my stuff is still working without fault. A 21 year old SD Beovision 5 that's had a hard life and no one wanted but it still has near-perfect picture (much better than any new non B&o TV i've stumbled across), Beocenter 2 hasn't missed a beat in 12 years since I got it new, the AV9000 from 1994 in my bedroom which is also faultless except for the VCR which probably just needs lubrication in the right places... I'm seeing so many broken TV's popping up... Beovision 10, New Avant, etc... tv's that cost just as much as the Beovision 5 and 9 when they were new... am I the only one who's really really disappointed that the magic has left the building? I genuinely can't understand the justification of the price of these newer TV's. I almost like the one with the moving scissor speakers but it is still hideous when switched on.
Now all we have to choose from (besides the glorious BeoLab 90 and 50) are ugly apple products. The Televisions look horrendously cheap and are in fact cheaply made. What is with the speaker designs? The new ones with the moving wooden grilles, what are they smoking to think that would look nice? Even the highly talked up Beosound 1&2 speakers sounded quite off (artificial and mono). What happened to the pursuit of perfection and the quest to reproduce the original source? I sold the silly conical Besound 1 speaker and went back to having $2000 in my pocket using the BeoLit 12 which flat-out sounds and functions better. I must be getting old to be having a rant but i've been thinking this for years now. I'll just hang on for dear life to the favourite items i've kept; BL1. BL2, BL4000, BL6000, BV5, etc and when they fail and can't be repaired that's it, I'm done. The newer stuff just doesn't do it for me at all. Apologies if this has already been discussed, I haven't used the forums in years. I felt prompted to come back on here because I saw a photo with the new television called theater and i'm horrified they let that design go through. Surely people don't think this design is palatable let alone desirable? I thought it was a prank or someone had cleverly made their own B&O-style stand in their garage but no, that's what B&O are making now. Eye sores that will be broken after a couple of years.
David Lewis must have been one of the very best that B&O had and may ever have. Surely i'm not the only one shaking their head at all this... don't even get me started on that handbag speaker. :(
