I agree who cares about numbers, it's your ears that decide!!!

For me the Beolit 12 seems to be perfect - I started saving right now.

Reasons:

How many airplay speakers with battery are out there?

Beolit 12, SDI something... and ??
Very innovative, very fast to market - congrats B&O!

I use napster with ipad/iphone A LOT.
In fact exept for radio (FM, via BS3000, in the mornings) it is the only audio source we use (thorough SONOS).
The kids and wife have gotten so used to play their music anytime they wish without digging through our mp3 collection and without looking for the right CD, it is incredible.

So - if this will work - I will get one!

Ralf

Just got back from my dealer - they received a couple of Beolit 12's this afternoon.

My impressions:

1) The Chinese have made a right pigs ear of the top-quality rubber feel, the lovely non-touch controls and aluminum. Shame really. The outer cardboard box was very well made, but that was made in Denmark and shipped over.

2) The sound quality is better than I expected. Maybe not as good as my Beosound 8, but certainly a lot better than the Beosound 3. It's decent, that's for sure.

3) It's slightly smaller than I expected.

4) Works very smoothly with your iPhone. Easy to control, mute and so on. No complaints.

All in all, slightly better than I expected. I doubt i'd go for the dark grey version though, I prefer the tan strap.

Just spent all of 10 minutes setting up our display model in the shop.  Performs superbly, better than I remember it!  Rich,deep bass...

First customer to see it, bought on the spot without prior knowledge of the product!

This will be a great seller and will certainly hit the BeoSound 8 market...

moxxey wrote:

Just got back from my dealer - they received a couple of Beolit 12's this afternoon.

1) The Chinese have made a right pigs ear of the top-quality rubber feel, the lovely non-touch controls and aluminum. Shame really. The outer cardboard box was very well made, but that was made in Denmark and shipped over.

£599...

I love the Beolit 12.  The sound is really great.  I can't really add anything to the review by ben73 which is really well written.

The wireless setup was a little strange because I have a hidden network at 5GHz.  I changed the network settings temporarily to add the Beolit 12 to my network. I think I am going to add another network at 2.4 GHZ just for the Beolit 12.  I couldn't find the network specifications for the Beolit 12.

A Beo4 remote can be used to control the volume and power off the Beolit 12.  I would presume a Beo6 can be changed to add Beolit 12.

So how does it compare sound wise to the BS3?

linder wrote:

A Beo4 remote can be used to control the volume and power off the Beolit 12.  I would presume a Beo6 can be changed to add Beolit 12.

 

Also just noticed that when using volume control on the Beolit 12 or the Beo4, the volume is also changed on the iPhone at the same time.  I guess this is how Airplay works but I didn't expect it.  I have an Apple TV but haven't used Airplay.  There is probably more to learn.