It’s kinetic art. Like saying I like movie musicals except for all the pointless singing and dancing 😁. Art is always what you take from it. Some appreciate what the artist is trying to do, and others find it to be wasted motion. That doesn’t mean that if you like it you are somehow defective, in denial, or otherwise in some state of regression.

Millemissen wrote:

1: I know we disagree........buy some additional speakers (or use some of those, that you already have) and a good listening chair placed in the sweetspot 😉

But wouldn't that make the whole butterfly exercise kind of pointless and who is to say you can run audio mode wings aloft?

Ill guess we will know once the product is finalized.

 

 

BEOVOX141 wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

1: I know we disagree........buy some additional speakers (or use some of those, that you already have) and a good listening chair placed in the sweetspot 😉

But wouldn't that make the whole butterfly exercise kind of pointless and who is to say you can run audio mode wings aloft?

Ill guess we will know once the product is finalized.

From how it is described now, I wold suppose that you could ‘run audio mode’ with the speakers aloft....but I don’t know.

However, why not?

Yes, we will know (more) at some point.

MM

I'm fine with how they have tried to make a massive glass panel look more interesting via moving panels, but they should have been able to move the tv, too. 

I have a BV Avant 75 in a 130 m3 room, but there are so many large windows that the placement is limited - but with the planetary stand for the Avant 75/85 this is not a problem: I can have the oversized sofa facing the view and a tv that blocks parts of the view when in use. A 77 or 88 stationary glass panel? Sometimes reflections are so bad that I have to adjust the Avant's position to get rid of them. 

One thing I'm not worried about is the sound quality - it will be stellar, for sure. Everything from B&O lately have sounded great. 

Roger

Why is everyone assuming the large back is housing a beocentre system. Judging by the 77 inch TV and the chunky moving speakers which are also quite large covering maybe a 55 inch area combined - you need to have some serious mechnical parts, motors and pullley systems put SOMEWHERE.

 The mechanics cant go on the TV panel  so the attachement at the back probably used 70% of that space for the mechanincal parts to move everyting and 30 % space left for the soundcentre /hmdi switch similar. Although looking at the timy speakers i dont think you need allot for that as your getting less speakers than an eclipse.

I agree there is no need for rotation given how big the TV is.

Because that’s where the pl sockets are and unlike the eclipse the tv doesn’t run custom firmware. So it’ll be basically like the dsse board in the eclipse but with more secondary capabilities like cec and (e)arc and menu overlays.

Does that mean no PUC?

1990 wrote:

The pics:

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According to the what hifi article:

"B&O ... has bestowed upon the Beovision Harmony a speaker array featuring a one-inch tweeter, two 2.5-inch full-range drivers, a four-inch midrange/woofer and another pair of four-inch bass drivers."

So there's a pair of 4'' bass drivers that are not shown.  Possibly this picture is an early proto-type without all the drivers, or they're rear-facing somewhere...  

So the 2.5" full-range drivers move from approx. 60" apart in TV mode to approx. 4" apart in closed (music)? mode.

I wonder how many buyers will end up leaving the speakers in TV mode all the time?

moxxey wrote:

vikinger wrote:

On reflection I think that this TV is going to be regarded as a classic B&O offering. OK, some of the movement seems pointless, but it is a mobile work of art! Wasn't it the same with the Beocenter 2 and similar products? Part of the joy of ownership was that starting-up opening..... when in reality the same could have been achieved with a slot loading CD mechanism.

Really don't get this, sorry Graham. I had a BeoCenter 2 for ages (actually only sold it last year) and the slow-ish opening never really gave me 'joy'. It's fine, and if you like that kind of thing, but no-one was particularly bowled over by that in 2018 - unless I now live in a parallel universe where we've gone back to 1998 and that kind of tech was modern, offered joy and impressed.

I just do not get why you need all the daft slow speaker movement on top. I don't get who this impresses?

 

 

I adore the Beocenter 2 opening.

The slow motion opening of the Harmony is gorgeous, Zen and calming after a hectic day.

It's not your cuppa, but for others it is the opposite.

So much so I am trying to hunt down an excellent later version of the Bc2.

One man's meat is another....