I saw it this afternooen. From my point of view it looks and sounds great. No bad finish at all! Design is very Cecilie Manz. The same gently curved edges, simplicity and texture as in many of her other designs. And not retro at all. Have a look when avaible in your country and make your own judgement.

Beofan2 wrote:

I saw it this afternooen. From my point of view it looks and sounds great. No bad finish at all! Design is very Cecilie Manz. The same gently curved edges, simplicity and texture as in many of her other designs. And not retro at all. Have a look when avaible in your country and make your own judgement.

Wise words.

rednik wrote:

No.  Its the main reason I don't get the obsession with airplay, and would rather dock the phone on a device since I will be in the same room anyway.

Battery life on the phone will be reduced massively using airplay as well, so when you need to actually use it as a phone, you have no battery left.

It's kind of difficult to us your iDevice for other things (it is more then a mp3-player) while listening, when it's docked.

Besides that, Airplay can be used in many other ways. Use your full library in iTunes, or with other apps that give you access of your NAS. DS audio (Synology) or Qmobile (QNAP) are great apps. Or how about using Spotify to discover new music. For these tasks, you really don't want to have your idevice docked. And if your running on low battery, plug in your usb-cable.

If the Beosound 8 had Airplay, I wonder how many people would use the dock. I wouldn't. 😕

Razlaw wrote:

Chris wrote:

 Calling other peoples opinions as "numbskulls" etc is your right I guess, but it is a bit rich if you have read things out of context.

I agree completely. However, there are those who seem to have an inability to express opinions without insulting others

Nor stick their nose in and try and wind people up like the above, Razlaw. Like I said before, you're an interesting bloke, for a lawyer. Impartial? Nope.

Chris wrote:

Calling other peoples opinions as "numbskulls" etc is your right I guess, but it is a bit rich if you have read things out of context.

Actually Chris, I was talking generally. Don't take things too personally. There's a bit of a stigma associated with certain things, one of those being manufacturing. Instead of us celebrating B&O's decisions, forward thinking, new brand and so on, we want the best of both worlds - both the Danish manufacturing, top quality materials, plus the cheap prices. It's near-impossible to get all three, hence my reasoning. It's frustrating.

But Razlaw likes to stick his oar in assuming that it's said personally. This is a board where we type words. I don't know you all from Adam! If I took personally some of the comments some of our customers email us, I'd have lost my mind many years ago. Razlaw would have emailed them back individually telling them all how he was personally offended. You just can't do that.

moxxey wrote:

Razlaw wrote:

Chris wrote:

 Calling other peoples opinions as "numbskulls" etc is your right I guess, but it is a bit rich if you have read things out of context.

I agree completely. However, there are those who seem to have an inability to express opinions without insulting others

Nor stick their nose in and try and wind people up like the above, Razlaw. Like I said before, you're an interesting bloke, for a lawyer. Impartial? Nope.

iNuke Boom Speaker

Maybe the Beoplay 12 is not priced high enough.  🙂  This does not look like it has super quality materials or design but they are asking $30,000 for it?

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/10/ces-2012-behringers-30000-inuke-boom-speaker-on-display/

Beofan2 wrote:

I saw it this afternooen. From my point of view it looks and sounds great. No bad finish at all! Design is very Cecilie Manz. The same gently curved edges, simplicity and texture as in many of her other designs. And not retro at all. Have a look when avaible in your country and make your own judgement.

"Not retro at all"..??? 😕 Have you seen a Beolit from the 60's??? It is definitely inspired by that - B&O even admits that it is inspired by vintage Beolits. That's called retro -just like VW New Beetle, Fiat 500, etc.
It's not a new and groundbreaking design invented by Cecilie.

But anyway...If the B&O Play products is supposed to be inspired by vintage B&O (as someone suggested earlier in this thread) -I can't wait to see a new version of the Beosystem 10 - or other Jensen designs 😐👍

Just two thoughts ... if it is truly damp proof then I am really interested in it for our newly completed wet room

💡 ... and I just realised we can sling it into the car and have B&O on the go ... woohoooo !!!