seethroughyou wrote:

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BS Moment..............Visited a dealer today and he said that B&O have clarified that there will not be any future audio systems of the types we are used to. The future will be small plastic streaming boxes hidden away like the Core. Has anyone else heard this?

It's not a surprise. I had my BeoSound 4 a long time ago, in the end became a 'streaming tool' to my BL3s via an AirPlay device and effectively a radio. And even then it was easier to find a station on the computer or iPad and stream, rather than go to the device itself and pick one.

We have to remember the traditional customer base is dying fast. People don't need/want a player for their audio OR their old one doesn't need to be replaced. How many people here still have a BeoSound 4 or 9000? I bet a fair few. So, take in to account the reduction in future potential customers and existing customers keeping what they already have and it's a sharply declining future market.

The question is better served as: what is B&O going to to produce in the future to successfully serve their retailers? Your average store on an average high street won't sell many BL90s, 50s or Harmony, so they need more mid-range products.

Good points Moxxey. I have a BS9000, which I truly love, what a work of functional art! But, last time I used the CD player was a couple of months ago when I demonstrated it to a guest. I use it to connect my Auralic Aries Mini to my BL9s, with volume and tone controls and a nice remote, Beo4.

Having come of age, audio wise, during the glorious 70's when hifi was big business and everyone had a system, and every brand made everything, from turntables to speakers, this is hard to enjoy watching though. I still wonder if a proper audio setup would sell, if it had something good to offer.

Then again, if I had it to do over I'd get the Auralic integrated amp and a pair of speakers.

Jeff wrote:

Having come of age, audio wise, during the glorious 70's when hifi was big business and everyone had a system, and every brand made everything, from turntables to speakers, this is hard to enjoy watching though.

Jeff

seethroughyou wrote:

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BS4

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BS5

BS Moment..............Visited a dealer today and he said that B&O have clarified that there will not be any future audio systems of the types we are used to. The future will be small plastic streaming boxes hidden away like the Core. Has anyone else heard this?

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Having come of age, audio wise, during the glorious 70's when hifi was big business and everyone had a system, and every brand made everything, from turntables to speakers, this is hard to enjoy watching though.

 

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Now where did I put my pipe and slippers? 😎

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BS Moment..............Visited a dealer today and he said that B&O have clarified that there will not be any future audio systems of the types we are used to. The future will be small plastic streaming boxes hidden away like the Core. Has anyone else heard this?

Maybe we should see the coming, new remote control as the front end of these ‘small plastic streaming boxes hidden away‘.

And we must learn to see that audio systems have merged into something different than in the golden days of ‘visible media’..

MM

i still have my BS9000 in my livingroom i love it.

No other B&O unit or other brand can replace that look..--for me.

On the BS9000 i have connected high end music server, TV, chromecast, ...ect

For speakers BS12.3 on the wall + sub.

As my wife is  an-technical type of person these is wining combination for now.

in my listening  room.. there is BS5, BC2,BS4..an older types os sound systems.

Millemissen wrote:

Maybe we should see the coming, new remote control as the front end of these ‘ small plastic streaming boxes hidden away