seethroughyou wrote:

As a fan since 2000 when I spent my first ever pay cheque on B&O, I have become disillusioned with B&O. Product after product seems plagued with software issues which take an eternity if ever to resolve, poor construction (Bs5 and Moment) and abysmal customer care. Aside from their speakers which are phenomenal, I can not think of one think I really want them to make now because it will be riddled with problems and push them further into debt. I wish i felt differently but this is my honest reply. What I’d love is a B&O version of a Roon Nucleus-Innuos Zen but hand on heart if B&O attempted it, I’m confident that their attempt would be downright awful in materials, functionality and software.

Dig up David Lewis, harvest some DNA and clone him.

I'm just curious,.... would there be any interest if B&O introduced a line of BeoVox speakers that would work with third party amps/receivers? Software issues would be nonexistent, and from what I remember, the CX100's were some pretty damned good sounding boxes.This could also potentially position the company into the more mainstream market, both in terms of flexibility and affordability... although, I foresee great debate in the boardroom about it.

Interesting proposition, imagine the S45.2 with a better tweeter. It goes against B&O's active speaker philosophy, but I wonder. If nothing else they could make a combination, ICE amp and a passive speaker. Klipsch for one does this, one speaker has an amp and BT receiver, etc. and hooks to the 2nd with a speaker wire. Less expensive than a DSP based true active, might be an interesting Play type of product. Who knows if it'd sell, it'd have to be priced aggressively and I'm not sure B&O knows how to do that or cares to do it, doesn't fit a premium product attitude in their minds.

I'm not sure how the whole speaker market is faring these days. Should try and look at numbers but I'm betting the death of traditional hifi has made that an iffy market.

I still use the CX 100 speakers and a Beocenter 9000. I’ve used a Beosound essence to stream my music and the fidelity in a bedroom is really quite good. I’m not sure anything right now is as warm or as sympathetic to higher tones as this set up is. I also use a Beovox Cona as a subwoofer that’s out of sight as the bass.  I have been looking at the Sonos amp to take the place of the Beosound essence and to give more power to the speakers. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

BeoLab 5000 with Coscone and ICEPower !