elephant, that looks very interesting. Did you have the time to listen to it? How does it sound?
Is it like a gigantic Beoplay a1 or A1 (360° sound) and is its sound usable? How about a placement near a wall or like in your case in front of some furtniture?

I'm sorry but looking at the pictures it just looks......boring!!!

Loads of great looking speakers like beolab 8000, beolab 4000, more modern ones like beolab 3 and the best of them all Beolab 5. They all look interesting, they ask questions to the person looking at them, but this one......nothing

Just a round speaker with cloth end, wow, I wonder how long it took b&o to design this masterpiece.

They need to look at their design studio, look at the past successes and WHY they sold in so many numbers and then design a loudspeaker that invokes the same emotions to the purchaser.

No doubt it will look better in the flesh once I see it at my local dealer, but even with 0% finance I'm sure I'll not be purchasing one.

I tend to agree that sculpturally the Edge lacks any details that show craftsmanship.

The Beo4 ,for example , was obviously developed from a piece of wooden dowel in the workshop. It's clear the flats were created at the top and bottom and that the flat area behind the display describes the section of the dowel. The "hoop" around the Edge should have an interesting edge rather than looking like a thin strip wrapped around the speaker looking like anybody could make it.

The illuminated detail in the strip is interesting but where is the "edge" which gives it some integrity?

The Edge still fascinates me as does how it will fit into people's lives and living spaces.

I think the Edge is a great new sculpture speaker in the Beosound portfolio! It has the key part of a successful speaker; fantastic sound (based on the early reviews), multiroom, and the roll-volume feature that adds the extra magic to the traditional remote operation. A successful mix of technology, design and features. This is a sculpture you actually would like to touch when approaching, and that makes it stand out, IMO! The price point isn’t too bad either. 

I use the word Sculpture because ,by the definition of the word, the Edge does not qualify as a sculpture;

it's an engineered product despite the intellect of its operation. 

the definition being the art of forming solidobjects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone, or an objectmade in this way:

BeoET wrote:

I think the Edge is a great new sculpture speaker in the Beosound portfolio! It has the key part of a successful speaker; fantastic sound (based on the early reviews), multiroom, and the roll-volume feature that adds the extra magic to the traditional remote operation. A successful mix of technology, design and features. This is a sculpture you actually would like to touch when approaching, and that makes it stand out, IMO! The price point isn’t too bad either.

TWG wrote:

elephant, that looks very interesting. Did you have the time to listen to it? How does it sound?

Is it like a gigantic Beoplay a1 or A1 (360° sound) and is its sound usable? How about a placement near a wall or like in your case in front of some furtniture?

elephant wrote:

Sadly they did not put audio into the Augmented Reality B&O App — not a bad idea ! Even though it would not be a true representation.

Who knows - maybe some day 😉

MmM

@elephant

Read this:

For those of you who think that the Edge is expensive check out the latest competition in the same price range:

https://www.dali-speakers.com/loudspeakers/callisto/

Milton