WOW! I really like it. It is a mix between the old Lewis Design i really like and something new. Would perfectly fit into my dining room..... ;)))))))

I also have a mixture between different wood types - and it looks good for me. I am really looking foward to hear them play in the store.

Puncher wrote:

9 LEE wrote:

Triple post, and I'm sorry - but wood is a bold move.

There are many types of wood - and if the wood on the speakers is at odds with your floor or furniture, you won't be buying it..

Lee

 

My apologies to the Wedthredders©, but -  there was this company that made a wooden fronted speaker, they placed it in a wooden decorated room, they tried to launch it by associating it with a wooden coloured ex-pop star, they tried to post a video on Yewtube ............ unfortunately it wooden work!!

 

 

😳 I'll get my coat!

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Puncher wrote:

My apologies to the Wedthredders©, but -  there was this company that made a wooden fronted speaker, they placed it in a wooden decorated room, they tried to launch it by associating it with a wooden coloured ex-pop star, they tried to post a video on Yewtube ............ unfortunately it wooden work!!

😳 I'll get my coat!

❓

Timmmmmmmmber...........

What a conservative lot!

A bit of wood trim and folk are having multiple panic attacks.

Anyone recall the "Teak or Rosewood" 80s?

Compared to some hi end speakers [Sonus Faber et al] they are quite polite looking.

Word on the street is that they will be available in different wood stains to match your fung shwayed loft  apartments. Gotta please the footballers wives and not just the black roll neck brigade.

Besides, the grilles are removable, so you can always customise them with a speaker grille frame covered with your acoustically transparent material of choice. 

They look good in ebony. But don't ask me how I know.

I'm all for them including wood back into the products, as some reference to classic products like the Beomaster 2400 etc. And I have many types of wood in my place. But that new speaker is a design fail. As someone else stated above, it looks like an early design study before they decided on the final look of the lab 8000. The proportion of the cast iron base is wrong, and as for the stiletto heel part - the original was supposed to reference an organ pipe, not a hooker's shoe.  I already own 8000's so I guess I don't need another pair,  I won't be upgrading or replacing them with this.

ps... it's 2013..

New product launch opinion repeats itself as usual.

Gotta see and feel them in the flesh, as usual. They even smell good.

BeoUndies wrote:

They even smell good.

I've never been a speaker sniffer myself but, as my old Dad used to say, "it takes all sorts"!😂

Puncher wrote:

I wonder how many non-B&O customers watched it ............. very, very few I would imagine! I hope he did it for a free pair of speakers and didn't cost a fortune!!!

Ban boring signatures!