I really like the Emerge. I think it's beautiful and it could easily blend into my interior. Thumbs up for this one B&O!

I was not suggesting the Beocentre 9500 is better than what is being produced today I was using it as an example of the company's inovation in the past compared to today.

I could include parallel tracking fully automatic turntables, HX PRO fully automatic tape decks, quadraphonic sound, Hifi VHS recorders, two way IR communications, round the house sound and vision, steerable TV's Built in Sat TV, one remote for everything, the list goes on and on of great examples of doing things differently by B&O, making them look and sound great, easy to use and a pleasure to own?

Now we just get more and more mono speakers. Every few months another one. The modern equivalent of a Beolit radio? It's so boring!

It's not that I looks back, it's that we are moving backwards!!!!

Beofile7 wrote:

Now we just get more and more mono speakers. Every few months another one. The modern equivalent of a Beolit radio? It's so boring!

It's not that I looks back, it's that we are moving backwards!!!!

No!

Beolit radios (and alike from other companies) have always been popular as secondary devices in kitchen, bedrooms etc.

What would you say....does a BL3500 or a BL2000 offer much more than a modern B&O mono speaker (that actually is different from a mono’ish speaker except for maybe the M3)?

People behave just like before - only they have more and better devices/easier options to choose from.

Personally I like music in the kitchen and am totally content with a speaker like my M3 there (although I will prefer an Emerge once it gets NL support).

If I want to listen (!) to music, I sit down in my livingroom or in the study....both equipped with a full 5.1 speaker setup.
But that is just because I am somewhat a music nerd. Most people don’t go that far.

MM

Maybe there isn't much left to innovate around? i.e the hard physical formats have become niche / disappeared altogether.

That said, I agree a constant stream of such signal point speakers is not very inspiring.

And thats the rub / challenge for B&O - with less (pr nothing even?) left to innovate around design and form factor wise, they are just left being a producer of nice looking and good sounding units like these. 

It places a real focus and emphasis on the designs they come up with, especially as the other technology and connectivity that they also innovated with have been all but taken over by other companies. So they are really just now a maker of nice looking speakers. (In the one recent product that wasn't a speaker i.e. the Halo, the technology and associated functionality was shocking in its limited scope)

Here they are just about holding water - the recent designs have been mostly nice (Balance aside, which was very poor), but none of the recent stuff have been especially compelling design wise. But designing "pretty nice" speakers may be enough for their survival - emphasis on "may".

Beofile7 wrote:

I was not suggesting the Beocentre 9500 is better than what is being produced today I was using it as an example of the company's inovation in the past compared to today.

I could include parallel tracking fully automatic turntables, HX PRO fully automatic tape decks, quadraphonic sound, Hifi VHS recorders, two way IR communications, round the house sound and vision, steerable TV's Built in Sat TV, one remote for everything, the list goes on and on of great examples of doing things differently by B&O, making them look and sound great, easy to use and a pleasure to own?

Now we just get more and more mono speakers. Every few months another one. The modern equivalent of a Beolit radio? It's so boring!

It's not that I looks back, it's that we are moving backwards!!!!

If I was stuck to my old Beosystem 4500 and the linkrooms of yesterday, I would never have been able to listen to e.g. Radio Paradise.

Now I just push the Radio button (and a number) on the remote with my BV’s or one of the My Buttons in the kitchen to start my favourite station.

Just an example why I prefer my modern B&O gear.

It is a question of taste (that I am quite convinced) whether you like some of the new gear or prefer the old stuff.

Fact is - which we also can read here - that there are people who like the new stuff.

I guess none of us have a crystal ball - the guys from Struer are doing what they find is needed.

I find it little inspiring to discuss taste - if you don’t like it, why worry - just stay clear of it.

If you like it, buy it/use it....which in the end will determine the success or failure of B&O.

MM

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Millemissen wrote:

Csaba wrote:

Weird, the Emerge was on the webpage, now removed. Must be a glitch. Or they realized that John o’Manchester had not uploaded his review yet.

My indeed harmless comments on that keeps getting blocked from admin....why?

It is there!

MM

Thanks a lot! We were both right. I had to refresh, then it came back. But then it disappeared again. So I refreshed, and it reappeared again :).

A pink version also coming? https://layerdesign.com/project/emerge/#top-page 

A hint from design offices page...

Azuntila wrote:

A pink version also coming? https://layerdesign.com/project/emerge/#top-page

A hint from design offices page...

Azuntila wrote:

A pink version also coming? https://layerdesign.com/project/emerge/#top-page 

A hint from design offices page...

No that’s a clay model industrial designers use in a design process how an actual design looks and feel.