mbee wrote:

A "standard person" with standard computer skills will NEVER

It's not impossible though and the personal hotspot thing is widely promoted by Apple. Plus no reason why B&O can't include it in their Beolit manual.

Anyway, moot point. It can be done and we'll see how/if they promote when it's....finally released.

Paul Winn wrote:

Hi Moxxey, there is no way anyone other than rich B&O lovers will pay over £350 for this. At the end of the day it's a mono speaker in retro plastic. The BS3 is purely bonkers - it's madness!

I said the same thing - you can't put a "made in China" sticker on a plastic device, in an Apple store, and price it up at B&O prices, but my dealer was adament it would be closer to the BS3 price than £300. Remember that many people think the Zeppelin is overpriced at £400! Beolit has to come in at £299 for me, max.

Paul Winn wrote:

Hi Evan,

Yes certainly did. The B&O name doesnt really mean a lot to them as half are not into the image of the brand and the other half work with me in radio were of course we use the pro and semi pro stuff from Apple, Pioneer, Sony and Tascam.

I find it interesting that they are liking the retro looks and feel to the product but not surprised at the same time. Judging by this response of say 40 - 50 young professionals, I think that this will be a hot seller at the Apple stores especially as BOSE have started their television ad's here in the UK for their bluetooth speaker aimed at a similar market. It will be interesting to see the rest of this range.

Hope you are well Evan!

I am doing great Paul, hope you are too!

Have you bought your BeoSound 8 yet? 😎

The Beolit 12 initially struck me as ugly but now I am starting to imagine all the places I would put it in my space! Starting to like this thing...

Maybe with all that retro styling it won't look to out of place next to my 3000-2... 🤔 

moxxey wrote:

Evan wrote:

@Moxxy, there is a picture of the product label on the FCC/CE (whatever it is) site showing the label. It already says China.

Yeah, I know. But I still think it's a mockup/demo unit created for pushing through various regulations. I don't think it's a finished end-user product. It's rough around the edges, lacks controls and so on.

Oh clearly - I agree. I wasn't actually saying that beolit 12 was made in China, I'm sure that was a Danish effort, right down to the label! 😂

Didn't you hear? Paul loves his Mini!

I also don't know where he heard it was a mono speaker. In three pages I've seen very little correct information.

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I have to say I don't get it either.  You spend time on a board for a luxury av brand, then keep saying everything is expensive.  I don't see why someone would spend thousands on a watch when you can buy one for less than £100, that's fine, I don't spend amy time on Rolex forums slagging off everything they do and saying they should be cheaper.

rednik wrote:

I don't see why someone would spend thousands on a watch when you can buy one for less than £100, that's fine, I don't spend amy time on Rolex forums slagging off everything they do and saying they should be cheaper.

Wrong. I own plenty of very expensive Panerai watches, but I and others often moan that they should be cheaper :)

Some forum users moan a bit and it's something you just need to live with. The written word isn't anything like how we'd speak in person. We have various US software stores and you should see some of the emails we get from customers - sometimes they go straight to the swear words. They'd never do that in person.

If everyone was just positive all the time, life would be very boring indeed. That's why I think American's don't understand us Brits. They think we're very negative, talk things down a lot, but it's kind of an ironic negative. ie. we're really positive, buying products and so on, but just have high expectations and, as I said, writing words can come across as more negative than you would get if you spoke to the same person face-to-face. Mind you, on the flipside, some of the American over-zealous "that's AWESOME!" talk drives me nuts, too :)