According to IBT "The BeoSound 35 joins the likes of link and Sonos' Play:5 as premium options for all-in-one audio but, as expected, this comes in more pricey with RRP from £1,745. There's no question it's a beautiful-looking speaker (it's actually more like a soundbar compared to other all-in-ones on the market) but that's a lot more than both the mentioned rivals. However, for discerning audiophiles this probably won't matter. The BeoSound 35 will be available for the audio aristocrats come mid-April 2016."

Chris Townsend wrote:

I wonder what makes it a Beosound, as opposed to a Beoplay product? What I mean is, it obviously isn't a Beolab so is it more of an all in sound system?

 

 

Love the revamped designs B&O have launched recently. Beolab 20 for instance. Let's have a relaunched 11-55🤒

"The rock-solid cabinet on BeoSound 35 is carefully formed from an extruded aluminium profile. It is 3 mm thick, to ensure the necessary material stiffness and also to guarantee optimal heat dissipation. Both the cabinet surface and the end caps have been polished and anodised. If you look closely you will notice the distinctive gap between end caps and cabinet, and between cabinet and front cover – making that area precise was a daunting task, as it required extreme precision. It was done to highlight the capabilities of aluminium, and because it embodies the attention we give to every single detail."

Thats probably what makes it B&O rather than Beoplay ,even though the V1 was metal too...

Apple AirPlay, Buetooth 4.0, DNLA,

MP3, WMA, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF.

Sample rates up to 192kHz, 24 bit

Ethernet & Wifi b/g/n 2.4GHz and 5Ghz

Spotify Connect & Deezer.

This thing certainly ticks all the boxes 🙂

The aluminium part is reminiscent of the way the BL4000 design was evolved in the BL17.

Martin.

That was quick... B&O website already updated with product info. I guess B&O did release an OLED screen... right in the middle of the 35! lol

The rumours were that this was going to be a Beoplay S forty-something (I can't remember which number), so I wonder whether the rumours were just incorrect, or whether the product naming / categorisation was changed?

With great products like this that can stream from a DLNA server, it's a shame that B&O discontinued the Beo6 rather than expanding the 2-way music search capabilities of the Beo6 for other B&O products. It would have been great to have been able to use the Beo6 to search Tune-In / N.Radio stations, too. I know that we can use our phones for this, but it's just so much more elegant to have this control from a B&O remote.

beojeff wrote:

With great products like this that can stream from a DLNA server, it's a shame that B&O discontinued the Beo6 rather than expanding the 2-way music search capabilities of the Beo6 for other B&O products. It would have been great to have been able to use the Beo6 to search Tune-In / N.Radio stations, too. I know that we can use our phones for this, but it's just so much more elegant to have this control from a B&O remote.

I agree - the beo6 had great potential which was never fully realised.

I think part of the problem was that it is a product that was excellent if configured well, but many dealers lacked either the skills or the incentive to spend as much time as is needed to configure it properly.

riverstyx wrote:

beojeff wrote:

With great products like this that can stream from a DLNA server, it's a shame that B&O discontinued the Beo6 rather than expanding the 2-way music search capabilities of the Beo6 for other B&O products. It would have been great to have been able to use the Beo6 to search Tune-In / N.Radio stations, too. I know that we can use our phones for this, but it's just so much more elegant to have this control from a B&O remote.

I agree - the beo6 had great potential which was never fully realised.

I think part of the problem was that it is a product that was excellent if configured well, but many dealers lacked either the skills or the incentive to spend as much time as is needed to configure it properly.

So true. I think also that since only a small part of B&O users had a BeoSound 5, most users were never able to appreciate the elegant 2-way music search and cover art features. To anyone other than those with a BeoSound 5 or BeoLiving home control needs, the Beo4 just seemed sufficient.

Also, I see in the specs that the BeoSound 35 display is greyscale only rather than the red used for the BeoLab 3500.

Designer Torsten Valeur, David Lewis Designers. Look forward to hearing it.