Lee (and Keith),

Thank you for the time, money and enthusiasm over many years, rescuing the original site and helping make a wonderful and vibrant community Beoworld once was and still is to some extent.

I do completely understand where you are coming from and wish you both the best for your future endeavours and a proper retirement in Keith’s case.

I hope a buyer(s) can be found so the site can continue in some way to maintain the archives and forum, although I rarely use it these days but many still do.

Its been a great journey

Drew

Hi-Fi Wigwam is in its death throes and now Beoworld may have an uncertain future.

I need a lie down...

Hi Adam,

At least there is the new Maverick Hifi forum to replace the old Hi-Fi Wigwam Forum for our non-B&O audio needs ;-)  This is at maverick-hifi.com in case anyone was wondering!

Hopefully BeoWorld will find a new owner and be restored to a new lease of life again soon…

Kind regards Steve.

I visit here little myself. Started to lose interest when B&O switched to high net worth individual pricing and became out of reach for the middle income earners who aspired, when B&O shut down its TV laboratory and wrapped Samsung and LG screens but kept the original suppliers wretched software and when B&O’s idea of a luxury streamer became a cheap plastic hockey puck with terrible software. It’s basically a speaker company with bad customer service and zero visibility/non-existent to the public. Can well understand why it’s not worth spending one’s time and money on. I remember visiting this place nearly everyday years ago and got so excited by B&O releases. Now, this passes me by. Well, I’ve not a lot to say that hasn’t been said or prophesied since the early 2010s. Thank you to all the people that kept it going for so long. You’ll be missed. RIP.

A number of very credible people interested in the site, so please don't lose hope :)

Let's wait and see.

I had to close a very modest website because of hosting costs. (No forum). No sooner had I done this that people came out of the woodwork who had been using the site  as a free resource, and were really put out about the loss of the site.

It's just reality. If Lee and Keith cannot sell Beoworld as a going concern then what next? A free transfer to B&O or to a U.K. B&O franchise?

Graham

Just came on here to ask a question, after a protracted absence, and saw this post, and would like to add my personal thanks and appreciation for all the work running this site over the years.

I've found it to be a very helpful and welcoming community, and I'm of course very grateful for my own prize draw win a long time ago!

It's a real shame what's happened to B&O, a sad shell of its former self, and that's bound to have had an impact on their former customers and enthusiasts.

I do feel that, with some more intelligent and imaginative leadership, B&O could have forged a profitable path that remained authentic, but evidently that hasn't been the case.

Like SAAB perhaps, a brand that resonated mainly with an educated affluent professional middle class (such as used to be featured in B&O catalogues!) that has been disappearing globally for some time now. Coupled with the tectonic shifts in audiovisual technology, that's undoubtedly been difficult for B&O, and difficult for a community catering to their current and former customers.

But I'm rambling. I wish all involved all the best for the future and I really hope the site can be saved, in some form.

A few years ago, I to was sad to see the  'demise' of B&O, saddened by the lovely Avant being superceded by an alliance with LG.

Alas with the Avant, having spent £6K and with the unreliability that went with it ( 3 video boards just out of warranty)  it all became an impossibly expensive proposition.

Now I have the Theatre, its a great product ( a few software bugs excluded) and I can change the screen for £1500 should it fail. The picture quality is way above what B&O could achieve in a superfast changing market.

Likewise, beolab 28, what a great speaker, sound clarity compared to the speakers of the age that some yearn for is leagues above what was previously possible.

Yes the preowned market has tanked , but thats due to rapid technology change not B&O, lets face it who wants to buy an Avant now? or beolab 8000 or lab9/20 unless its super cheap.

Times have moved on, im not sure what individuals expected B&O to do, but i think their product range is actually very good presently; sure the price has moved to extreme levels but so have motor cars ect.

 

Just a few thoughts

Forgive me if I am being pessimist, but B&O sooner or later will follow the path of Beoworld: being sold (for Apple?) and changing directions or be extinct: it looks that ir lacks direction, or worse, is going on the wrong direction.

Products used to have more appeal until David Lewis era. I remember the first time I heard about B&O in the early 2000s, in a Playboy magazine (I used to read the articles) hi-tech session about a Beoplay release, and entered the website: it was love at the first sight, the range looked like it was made for me (except the price tag). I had to wait about 12 years to have my first product: a Beoplay A2.

I wish luck for both.