Agree B&W Diamond do sound amazing although for me only 2 Channel the 7.1 system I heard was a disapointment and B&W and B&O are my favorites never been a Fan of Box Speakers

 

Daniel wrote:

bayerische wrote:

Has the price been revealed yet?

54k £ for two.

OK, well, maybe on the used market then... If they would have been around 30K euro I could have seen myself getting a pair.

From wired.com

LEAVE IT BANG & Olufsen to design a speaker you’d trade a couple of your children to own. The 

Going by the spec's for the BeoLab 90s, I'm not even going to bother with doing what I did before getting my own BL5s.

😁

 

soundproof wrote:

Going by the spec's for the BeoLab 90s, I'm not even going to bother with doing what I did before getting my own BL5s.

😁

 

You mean no A/B testing? 🤒

Are you getting a pair?

I have to say, having thoroughly digested the technical white paper, and watched the youtube videos on the presentation, that I am somewhat over the moon with excitement with these speakers.

 Whilst it is unlikely that I will be lucky enough to ever own a pair (never say never!), there is not just the thought of the trickle down technology to other, later model variations, but the fact that these speakers once again, as did the Lab 5, put B&O up amongst the manufacturers of some of the best loudspeakers available in the world, regardless of cost.  I'm thinking MBL Radialstrahlers, Steinway Lyngdorf and their ilk.

I trust that Geoff doesn't mind; I've linked the technical white paper and videos to some 'audiophile' websites, and the reaction is very interesting.

Those with an open mind seem genuinely interested and would like to hear them - others, tellingly like many audiophiles who like to bash brands that they don't like, usually out of ignorance, - don't appear to bother to read anything, and write them off on lifestyle 'looks' alone.

Their loss and thank goodness I'm not involved in the 'audiophool' world anymore, where generally hype, misinformation and subjective opinion seems to dominate over objective, demonstrable and proven scientific fact

Love my B&O!

My sincerest congratulations to Geoff and all the team at B&O who have created a masterpiece of audio engineering and acoustic design!

Kind regards

 

John... 😐

 

 

Pinkish ey! - lots of great support for B&O and appreciation for this new tech with the odd sprinkling of good ole fashioned audiophool prejudice mixed in.

I dare you to start a post on Hifiwigwam aka the "Kondo Mafia" - you would have to prize the glowing tube valves, mono record cartridges and silver interconnectants from their cold lifeless bodies...I was too scared to post for fear of an instant lynching...

Having just watched the videos on recordere.dk from the presentation, I have to say, that I like the product more and more (also the design). All the thinking that has been put into this product is truly amazing, not only from Geoff Martin, but all the way around, not the least in the design and production (designers were really challenged here). And I am really proud on behalf of B&O that they managed to bring such a fantastic product to the market, and even more that B&O is THAT open minded in the development of this new product, we have never seen that before from them.

I hope all of you could have to time to watch the clips from the presentation.

This is a product that one can just dream of, and we all need to have dreams, right?

That is how I had it when I bought my first Beosystem 3300 in the 80's (that was what I was able to buy), but I dreamt of the other un-reachable (at that time) products. 

seethroughyou wrote:

I dare you to start a post on Hifiwigwam aka the "Kondo Mafia" - you would have to prize the glowing tube valves, mono record cartridges and silver interconnectants from their cold lifeless bodies...I was too scared to post for fear of an instant lynching...

I think you'll find the thread on Wigwam is already 3 pages long, with plenty of positive comments! ;-)

AdamS wrote:

I think you'll find the thread on Wigwam is already 3 pages long, with plenty of positive comments! ;-)

http://www.hifiwigwam.com/showthread.php?124901-B-amp-O-re-writes-the-loudspeaker-rule-book

I've just read all of those comments and I'd say that the 90's really do come out on top. Many appreciative comments on what B&O are trying to do and impressed with the technology and application. Only negative comments are on the design which is completely subjective and considering some designs that are lauded over by those same people is actually quite funny.

Dave