Here is a video from the danish site recordere.dk

http://www.recordere.dk/2017/04/bo-tilbage-til-fremtiden-alt-om-beosound-shape/

Text in Danish, video in English.

/Jacob

I would have thought an ability to add a sub-woofer will come simply because that does not need to be visible and would add to the attractiveness of the sound. I have to confess to not really understanding how multiple identical speakers which will all have the essence of being a point source can really work. There can surely be no imaging which is the strength of the Beolab 5 which can sonically disappear. It is however very striking and I can see it being adopted in many very upmarket hotels.

kind of a "Phil Spector memorial", lol

anyway: really cool and interesting. i'm very curious to see, hear and feel it 

I think that I could make a wall sculpture looking very like this system, and keep my S45's pumpiing out the real  sound hidden in the corners of the room.

(But I'm not going to do that because I would be posing as a purchaser who values questionable style over substance).

Graham

benoit wrote:

Thanks for the nice detailed review! 🤒

I like very much the concept and it's design. It reminds me on the Ligne Roset Clouds wall decoration from the french designers brothers Bouroullec... https://www.ligne-roset.com/fr/modele/tapis-et-accessoires/textiles/clouds/1636

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Although I leave in a small flat I could imagine having it to one wall of my living room. BUT, for my 5m long wall I think I would at least need 4 'basic sets' and some extra damping tiles too make a nice shape with the Shape... This would cost I guess close to 20k€ :-( . This is a HUGE amount of money and sound wise I don't know if it will overpass that much my Beosound 2 in my 20sqm living room.

This said, I see it much more for hotels lobbies...

The brothers B are experts on the repetition of forms and would have been ideal candidates for the design but they did that TV elsewhere. Phaidon did a good book on their work, which I have. I'm concerned that the elements could have been mor timeless but hope B&O have done this by avoiding trying to be clever.

Thanks for the review. I must say this looks pretty fascinating.

Any ideas if the blank ‘acoustic dampers' will be sold separately? I'd love to have some for just as acoustic panels!

Maurits C. Escher would have liked it. (Photo taken in den Haag)

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I like it too and hope to see it listening to decent music at suitable places.

lausvi wrote:

Thanks for the review. I must say this looks pretty fascinating.

Any ideas if the blank ‘acoustic dampers' will be sold separately? I'd love to have some for just as acoustic panels!

Great review Lee.

The BeoSound Core sounds really interesting.

Did they say, or do you think, this will become the new connection hub for the S8 2.1 system? Having multiroom built into a 2.1 system would be great!

Nick