moxxey wrote:

Nope. Eclipse looked good, BeoSound 1 & 2 looked good, as did the Level and so on. Even the Edge looks good (but sounds meh), whereas the A9 looks meh, but sounds amazing.

I don't think every discussion universally people don't like the product and then change their minds. I can't think of any time recently where seeing it in person has made me swing round from 'not liking' to 'I'm going to buy that!'.

The fact is that the BL28 is in the "golden meh looking product category" : BL9s were "meh", BL20s were "meh", so they tried a different way (big BL18s which are in the "wow" category) and the result is this different "meh" product. I think it's just difficult to add more volume than BL18 and still lokk elegant. You see that with the BL50 : that's the size and look of a classic speaker, nothing really B&O appart from the finish. To try to get the hearts of classic B&O lovers they just put some useless movement in a last "design" effort...

The only "big" B&O speaker that was well seen by design enthusiats was the Penta. Maybe they should bring a Recreated Penta to please everyone ?

When is it realeased?

The 3D render is so bad in the app, that you dont really get a feeling on how it looks.

A very bad first impression.

Emil Jensen wrote:

The 3D render is so bad in the app,

You find? Even if you can clearly see it's 3D, i find it well done, you can actually get aroud the speaker, down to the bottom to see the floating column and the backbone, the events on the foot and the top plate with bacligted commands. You can also see the two crowns moving when opening the curtains.

I wonder how it will look wall-mounted.

MM

matador43 wrote:

Emil Jensen wrote:

The 3D render is so bad in the app,

You find? Even if you can clearly see it's 3D, i find it well done, you can actually get aroud the speaker, down to the bottom to see the floating column and the backbone, the events on the foot and the top plate with bacligted commands. You can also see the two crowns moving when opening the curtains.

 

Yes, but you do not get the sense of the materiel, the texture in the wood and alu.

It makes a big difference IMO.

Millemissen wrote:

I wonder how it will look wall-mounted.

MM

What I wonder about wall-mounting it is that I guess the feet may house a subwoofer and I suppose it's firing downward like the feet shape implies and it is in Beosounds 1, 2, Beolab 5, etc…

If you wall mount the speaker, the bass driver would play against the wall which in case of dry walls would make it resonate or at least vibrate a lot?

matador43 wrote:

...i find it well done, you can actually get aroud the speaker...

I agree. As a matter of fact, I changed my opinion about the look now that I could see it in 3D through that AR app. Now I am actually intrigued to see it "live". And listen, obviously. 😁

There actually is a wall bracket from B&O for it - so they must have thought of how that will work.

25.3 w x 137 h x 25.3 d floor stand
21.2 w x 140 h x 25.3 d wall bracket

N.B. Why it is wider on a floor stand us hard to imagine :-o

MM 

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