In principle, I agree - a decent pair of beautiful headphones would certainly attract me. But they would have to be better than my HD600s,or Grado RS1s and have an interesting design. To do this, they are going to be expensive. Add on the usual B&O mark up for being a boutique brand, and you are talking £1000+ Suddenly less interested! 🙂

Peter wrote:

In principle, I agree - a decent pair of beautiful headphones would certainly attract me. But they would have to be better than my HD600s,or Grado RS1s and have an interesting design. To do this, they are going to be expensive. Add on the usual B&O mark up for being a boutique brand, and you are talking £1000+ Suddenly less interested! 🙂

They could or they could use them to lure people to the brand be not being overly silly with the asking price! Producing serious HD600 competition with a touch of B&O flair for HD600ish money could create a real stir and generate a potential new customer base.

Or the HD 800! lol. 

BTW.... Guys try the Klipsch X10. It astonishes people with the level of comfort and quality of sound for the size. I think the whole earphone just disappears into your ear like literally. The whole unit is actually smaller than your ear canal opening. I can't believe no updates have been made to it yet since its release 3 yrs ago though. I think that is something B&O can aspire to make. Again I must stress how super comfortable the earphones are. 

I don't mind over 1000 pounds for a pair of headphones as long as it is worth it. I mean the fabulous HD800 is around that price but be forewarned that the build quality is dreadful. 

I had the HD 600 way back when I was a teen but isn't it heavy?  

I think it is high time for B&O to get serious about HIFI because in a decade or so all other manufacturers will be making stylish if not state of the art all in ones. You are already seeing that trend now so..... 

When the time comes B&O better be on par with its competitors. 

And I will really like to see a B&O projector or just a well built open platform smart TV panel. Not everybody wants the build in speakers in the Beovision range or the extra decoding functions. I think B&O can edge out the competition with its superior video processing engine and higher build alone.

And again for future compatibility sake. Fully modular plugin modules for hifi. The audio products do tend to stay in the range for long so.... it makes sense. 

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What B&O NEEDS to improve regarding the A8 is the quality of the cable! During the winter the cable gets stiffer and I fear them to break... this needs to be revised.

kind of an odd fault for a company located in Denmark, no?

Oh no actually earphone cables break all the time so B&O has to introduce detachable cables instead if they are going to introduce a high end range that is. Shure, AKG, Klipsch, Sennheiser, Grado, Ultimate Ears they all break after a while. My worse decision is to get the AKG 3003 that was introduced without the detachable cables.... It was a pain to get it fixed almost every month after buying it. Trust me it's not the cable quality.... It's more on the issue of ergonomics.... Thinner cables are best. The cables on the AKGs are covered in fancy silk fabric  and so were the cables that came with the Sennheiser HD800s. BTW Grado has an excellent range of super light and comfortable in-ears too. Some regard it as the best but I say that the GR 10 is super well balanced in the vocal range. 

The cables of my HD25-1s are just fine in severy frost.  Mind you, it's made of steel, not copper.

I have had two pairs of the A8s, and both lasted for about a month before the cable was shot. having a thin cable makes it more prone to be overstretched, so I actually prefer thicker cables.

As for getting stiff because of the cold, I can't remember the A8s doing that. With that said, in my experience, it's all about what plastic/rubber is used. Some types are more prone to cracking, going too stiff in the cold.

It's the sme deal with microphone cables, or indeed, any type of wire. There are varying compounds, and thickness of the finished cable isn't what matters. It's how all the parameters play together. Super stiff but thin, and you run a real risk of severing the copper inside.