Actually, what's the quality of the parts inside our B&O?

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Dear all,

I am interested in what's the parts inside our B&O, any information in this.

For example, beosound 1, is there any information about the laser head used, the sound processing chips and the DAC etc..?

Also, an interesting example is beosound 6, as we all know it is nearly the same as samsung's. But what has been changed by B&O?

My overall question is whether B&O is really using top of the class inner parts?

 

 

I cannot answer for the BS6, but on the whole most components used are extremely good. The CD mechanism in the BS1 for instance is the Philips CD Pro II which is also used in many audiophile products. The decoder in this case is the integrated Philips CD10 chip set which is more than adequate for this application.

B&O have always used components from other manufacturers and uses high quality parts. They will tend to use good mainstream products rather than anything esoteric - the BS9000 uses a TDA1305 DAC - also seen in some Naim CD players but not one that the audiophiles would fight over!  

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovox.png Beovox.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-2.png Beosound-2.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-Portal.png Beoplay-Portal.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolit.png Beolit.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
Beocenter-2.png Beocenter-2.png

This is another thread along the same lines as the nonsense one on B&O's bad name or otherwise.

It will end up with tears!

B&O will use whatever internal components it thinks it can get away with for any particular job. No more, no less. Then it dresses them up in a package designed to appeal to it's customer base.

If, along the way, some bunch of so called audiophiles take a dislike to the end product, so what!

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