One thing B&O of late has illustrated quite clearly is just how much of their past design success and their products were directly the result of the two main designers, first Jacob Jensen, and then David Lewis, who I liked even more than Jensen. Without these two strong designers the company's designs and approach has been adrift in my opinion. Makes one appreciate the efforts of Jensen and Lewis even more.

During those days B&O had a very coordinated, integrated design language and a better integration of most products.

I last heard the Edge in May, but it sounded far better than the A9 and the price point is spot on for this product in my opinion.

It won’t suit everyone, but find me a B&O product that does. Hopefully, will be a great seller when it finally arrives in store...

SHEFFIELD wrote:

I last heard the Edge in May, but it sounded far better than the A9 and the price point is spot on for this product in my opinion.

It won’t suit everyone, but find me a B&O product that does. Hopefully, will be a great seller when it finally arrives in store...

Finally someone, who already has heard it  🙂

(Could you tell us more about the ‘omni/two sides sound concept’.....that is, if the sw was ready in May)?

MM

I saw two, one wall mounted that looked very cool, and the other free standing. They were still in the early days of development, but very eye catching and performance was amazing, very deep bass. In my opinion the A9 is great for bass, but lacks the finesse of the high frequencies. The Edge has proper BeoLab performance, that will stun listeners, very much like the Sound 2 does, but probably 50% better...

Jeff wrote:

One thing B&O of late has illustrated quite clearly is just how much of their past design success and their products were directly the result of the two main designers, first Jacob Jensen, and then David Lewis, who I liked even more than Jensen. Without these two strong designers the company's designs and approach has been adrift in my opinion. Makes one appreciate the efforts of Jensen and Lewis even more.

During those days B&O had a very coordinated, integrated design language and a better integration of most products.

Jeff

Beovirus victim, it's gotten to be too much to list!

Howzit wrote:

Jeff wrote:

 

One thing B&O of late has illustrated quite clearly is just how much of their past design success and their products were directly the result of the two main designers, first Jacob Jensen, and then David Lewis, who I liked even more than Jensen. Without these two strong designers the company's designs and approach has been adrift in my opinion. Makes one appreciate the efforts of Jensen and Lewis even more.

 

During those days B&O had a very coordinated, integrated design language and a better integration of most products.

 

Jeff

 

Beovirus victim, it's gotten to be too much to list!

 

 

 

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

Exactly !!!

elephant wrote:

And the App comes with about 20 predefined Shapes

Jeff wrote:

One thing B&O of late has illustrated quite clearly is just how much of their past design success and their products were directly the result of the two main designers, first Jacob Jensen, and then David Lewis, who I liked even more than Jensen. Without these two strong designers the company's designs and approach has been adrift in my opinion. Makes one appreciate the efforts of Jensen and Lewis even more.

During those days B&O had a very coordinated, integrated design language and a better integration of most products.

I think those were different times and designing for different issues. 

In many ways, I’m sure there was strong critic for pre-Jensen >> Jensen >> Lewis >> post-Lewis (current designers)

pre-Jensen was nothing

Jensen era was all about stylish boxes to hide clunky sources of Reciever, Turntable, Cassette and later CD

Lewis era was all about compact loudspeakers with good sound as the sources became extinct.

Post-Lewis seams to be about making something interesting to sell in an all-digital product that can be the size of a smart phone and sound good. By far the more difficult challenge of the last 50 years

Mr 10Percent wrote:

Jeff wrote:

One thing B&O of late has illustrated quite clearly is just how much of their past design success and their products were directly the result of the two main designers, first Jacob Jensen, and then David Lewis, who I liked even more than Jensen. Without these two strong designers the company's designs and approach has been adrift in my opinion. Makes one appreciate the efforts of Jensen and Lewis even more.

During those days B&O had a very coordinated, integrated design language and a better integration of most products.

I think those were different times and designing for different issues. 

In many ways, I’m sure there was strong critic for pre-Jensen >> Jensen >> Lewis >> post-Lewis (current designers)

pre-Jensen was nothing

Jensen era was all about stylish boxes to hide clunky sources of Reciever, Turntable, Cassette and later CD

Lewis era was all about compact loudspeakers with good sound as the sources became extinct.

Post-Lewis seams to be about making something interesting to sell in an all-digital product that can be the size of a smart phone and sound good. By far the more difficult challenge of the last 50 years

 

 

 

That definitely sums up the timeline of how things have gone and very difficult times now where there is no longer any physical music storage.