Hey, we're all entitled to our own opinions. 

I assume you've seen them in real life and listened to them?

On the 'doubt they will sell many' - B&O know that!  They're an insanely expensive speaker and will appeal only to the wealthy and wealthy audiophiles. They designed it to be the best sounding loudspeaker in the world - and it's certainly the best I've heard in my lifetime.

I think the BeoLab 90 looks like nothing else. Completely unique. However, when you make such a bold design statement you always risk some people not liking it. If they came up with a plain wooden box we'd all be moaning!

We're all different though, and if we all had the same taste life would be pretty boring.

Lee

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Pushkin wrote:

I think they will sell well. I though they looked odd when I first saw the pictures. But after 25 mins with them in Harrods yesterday the quality of craftsmanship but above all the sound - the best speakers I have ever heard - blew me away. I walked in just curious - I left knowing I need to find a way of owning a pair. Just amazing and great for the B&O brand.

I travelled to Oxford St, London today for work. Whilst my local store will be receiving a pair of BL90s in December, I just couldn't miss the opportunity to see them sooner so I made sure I allowed a little extra time to pop across the road to Selfridges to view them in person.

Like Pushkin, I was a little unsure from the photos what my feelings were about the design, but was determined to reserve judgement until I had seen them with my own eyes. All I can say having now done so is that the pictures do not do the design justice, or even come close to doing so. There is no disguising the fact that these are *big* speakers, but the design is stunning and I applaud B&O for being as bold with the physical design as they have been with the technology under the covers.

I wasn't in the store for more than a few minutes before I was approached and offered a demonstration. The corner of a large and noisy department store is hardly the best environment to demo a pair of speakers, but nevertheless, wow.

In one sense I feel I could end my post here as 'wow' is probably as close to describing the experience as I can put into words. The speakers might be large, but the sound is even bigger - these speakers pack some serious punch. The mids and highs are beautiful; accurate but never shrill, harsh or overly clinical. The bass though is seriously out of this world - not in an overly bass heavy sense, but just insanely accurate and precise. We're used to hearing the high end without excessive reflections but I can honestly say I've not heard low frequencies reproduced like this outside of a studio. I'm seriously impressed.

Martin.

elephant wrote:

I can't promise a sensible review...

Neither could I so I wouldn't worry! 😂

I found it very hard to put into words. All I could thing of was 'real' and 'immersive'

Looking forward to you putting fingers to keyboard and reading what you think!  🙂

Just came back from Struer as one of the happy winner of the 90 year love affair conquest. 

We heared de the lab90 . They're just fantastic. 9Lee did a perfect description and I have nothing more to say except: if you can, go listen to them. Even if they 're out of your price tag, it will a wonderful time.

About the design. I ddidn't like them at all on picture but in real it's something else. They're so much nicer. You need the 3d vision to have a real feeling and understanding of their design