Great! I watch Andrew regularly. Shame B&O won’t send him review samples.

Good review though. Stage is great. 

I agree to 100%, even that it needs a sub. But whining about the base color was a bit silly. Just buy aluminum instead with black base.

I was straight up shocked to hear that they don't give review units to professional Youtube channels like his.

That is unbelievably irresponsible marketing management!

Could be for a whole raft of reasons we don't know about.

In one way it adds to the credibility of the review somewhat.

Those 'I was supplied with a loan unit but this is completely unbiased' reviews never seem to have very much criticism but am I just being cynical?

 

MaxH wrote:

In one way it adds to the credibility of the review somewhat.

 

From a consumers point of view, maybe. 

But shouldn't the marketing department be more concerned with getting eyeballs on the products? 

Buying thousands worth of equipment for the privilege of reviewing B&O probably isn't a good proposal to someone with a vast audience.

They are probably way more comfortable with print media, but I don't think that that is getting people in stores nowadays. 

 

You may be right all I am saying is there may be reasons we don't know about.

Before I made a judgement on 'marketing' I would want to know:

Did they just say no to Andrew?

Is this a policy decision and if so why?

You are absolutely right, I am also uninformed about their media strategy and the reasons they have to withhold their products from video reviewers.

But for a long time I have been annoyed by the lack of "independent" video reviews of B&O products. The only exception might be Steve and B&O of Manchester and they are hardly independent (no critique! Much love and support to them)

So I guess they probably do not give sample units to anyone even if they ask, like Andrew Robinson.

Looking for B&O Products on Youtube, there are hardly any of high quality (exceptions above) and I for one see that as a drastic weakness in B&Os marketing.

I agree although Mikipedia and Hendrick do a great job with reviews. Whilst they may be regarded by some as 'fanboys', they certainly put their money where their mouth is which says a lot more to me than some 'independent reviewers.'

B&O have always been a bit quirky . . . 

 

 

 

Thing is, I am a fanboy but I also pet people know that. That doesn’t however make me blind to what other brands do and I don’t think that people are “wrong” for liking other things with the exception of possibly the bose stuff uou find everywhere in the US being compared to bl50/90’s😎

Even so, all the critisms we’ve had on my channel has basically made me a persona non grata with B&O proper. They don’t like reviews they have little control over and it also seems they think they can do no wrong🤔 so don’t expect them to do anything at all for modern day reviewers.