Just bought a pair of blue Pepsi H6 phones for £179 on eBay, and as others have noted the Pepsi logo is very discreet. In fact, to be honest I didn't even realise that was what it was!

I'm very pleased with them, especially at that price, which included postage. 

Congratulations! The price you paid for it justifies the quality/sound of this headphone. I paid 340 euro for it few months ago incl.10% discount. It's a bloody rip off, shame on you B&O!

Well, do they sound any different if bought at £179 rather than €329/340/399?

Would they be the best headphones ever made if sold at £1, and the worst if sold at £1000?

What is really disappointing is that B&O have followed the world wide trend of outsourcing production to China (or other low labour cost area) at presumably very low cost so as to maintain a good profit margin in Denmark. Basically, middle management, including the designers, have preserved their own jobs in the short term by putting the assembly workers out of business in Denmark. But in the longer term those design and middle management jobs are vulnerable too. 

Would people be willing to pay more if they knew something was completely designed and built in Denmark/Europe/ UK?

Graham

vikinger wrote:

Well, do they sound any different if bought at £179 rather than €329?

Would they be the best headphones ever made if sold at £1, and the worst if sold at £1000?

I guess that the answer re quality is to always try things out yourself rather than rely on secondhand opinions, even on Beoworld, or, for that matter, a manufacturers reputation.

Even when quality is high, most things I buy seem to be stamped 'Designed in --------- , Made in China."

The crowd funded Olive One was widely advertised as being made in the US before it actually appeared with a 'Made in Taiwan, Designed in San Francisco' label. The only people who have gained from this short sighted manufacturing approach are banks and shareholders.

Anyway, price aside, I personally think that the H6 does a very adequate job with my particular audio set-ups.

Graham

BeoGreg wrote:

One concern left, the ear buds get off very easily when I touch the headphones. I will ask my dealer if I can ad some kind of glue so that they won't move untill I really whant to.

Mark wrote:

after this thread I've started to be more aware of people wearing over ear headphones and I'm surprised; and this is not a sexist comment, how many women wear this style of headphone.

Again, not trying to be sexist, but you'd think they wouldn't as it'd mess up their hair, which I know many women spend what we men think of as inordinate amounts of time on. A guy with shorter hair, no issue, but a longer or more styled "do" would seem to favor ear buds.