sorenfelden wrote:

The Beoab Penta speakers are still stunning to me, would love them again, could probably even hide an acoustic lense behind the fabric. Even the Beosystem 6500 had an understated power to it.

No. The economies of scale are against it (manufacturing costs), demand would be very low, showroom space limited and they'd have to be very expensive as they'd be produced in very limited quantities.

There's a big difference releasing previous season sunglasses and re-launching electronic products from previous decades!

Who would buy a cd-player today? A record player...  or an audio tape? A FM Stereo Radio???   AM ???  What's that?

Nothing of these hardware has a future, just collectors.

Good sound is not important today, a smartphone is much more important, even in very limited quality.

So there will be no production of old  hardware... outdated.

But i dont care about that, i still use my BM7000 System every day, the Pentas and they still look nice. And i feel good with it  :)

sorenfelden wrote:

Tom Ford just relaunched some of his previous sun glasses. That got me thinking whether B&O has ever considered the same?

The Beoab Penta speakers are still stunning to me, would love them again, could probably even hide an acoustic lense behind the fabric. Even the Beosystem 6500 had an understated power to it.

Also sad to see the Beosound 5 discontinued (although I own one). I never understood why is wasn't a smashing success - it is by far the one piece of B&O that attracts the mot attention when people visit my home and they generally love it. And many are surprised they have never seen it before. Maybe the marketing never really hit the spot? Perhaps because the shops almost always displayed it on a spiny floor stand or wall stand that really is not half as good looking as on a table stand - or even better the original matte metal piedestal stand that, strangely, was never marketed. Well, just dreams.....

Gret debate. It works for TOM FORD because it's fashion and fashion goes around in a circle. Sometimes it's timeless - the lil black Chenel dress, a slim fit black mens suit, a classic fresh slim fit white shirt even 80s FILA jackets or of course the pea coat.Some of the TOM FORD's are aviators which my gosh, looks incredible no matter what decade you are in - so popular in the early 70s and so now for the last seven or so years.

The BS5 didn't sell because it was so damn expensive!

Technics have introduced a very expensive range and includes CD players. I agree the 5000/6500/7000 series would look beautiful but sadly, it's market is very limited in 2016. 

I don't agree with the guy who downed phones. Last year when I had my Audi A3 Sedan S Line, i had the 14 speaker BANG&OLUFSEN system in it. When I did an A/B test of the iPhone 4S playing a 320mbps AAC MP4 file and the cars CD player - there was ZERO difference in sound quality. Both sounded vibrant and alive!

I agree that a more tactile interface for the Moment a la Beosound5 would be good but retro relaunching technology products is a bit different to rehashing a pair of shades. Even things that appear to have stayed the same in fact change incrementally. The Heinz beans label would make an interesting time lapse picture and the tin itself is probably half the thickness it was a few years ago. Much of the style of B&O was to do with the media fed into it; the magic doors don't need to be there as Bluetooth does it. One thing I'd like would be an A1 that incorporates a radio to cut out the middleman, though.......

Paul W wrote:

I don't agree with the guy who downed phones. Last year when I had my Audi A3 Sedan S Line, i had the 14 speaker BANG&OLUFSEN system in it. When I did an A/B test of the iPhone 4S playing a 320mbps AAC MP4 file and the cars CD player - there was ZERO difference in sound quality. Both sounded vibrant and alive!

Actually this comparison doesn't seem quite appropriate. Listening to music in a car is always a compromise. It will never be as good as on a good system at home. A head unit in a car system is also not really comparable to what Martin had in his mind - most are pretty bad.

The point was more about people's listening habits of today than anything else. And I totally agree with Martin here that portability and comfort are much more of a concern than sound quality. And there's no doubt that a good Hi-Fi system at home will beat any portable device (although there are some pretty decent headphones) or anything that's been installed in a car. However, it's not worth the money to most nowadays and that has changed. It is not so much about the decent and concentrated listening alone at home, but more about being able to listen to anything at any place or any time - just like elevator music or what they play in the background at shopping malls. Of course, I don't care about sound quality in those surroundings either ;-)

Similarly, CRTs wouldn't have diminished if it wasn't for reasons of space. Any LCD will always be a compromise and the inferior technology. But people don't care. It's more important to cut the costs and sell it by keeping up the illusion of technological progress. And to many, being able to hang a TV on a wall and having ever bigger screens is obviously reason enough to buy. Fair enough. Firms only produce what they can sell. It took long enough until pircture quality became reasonably good for various sources.

Kai

Manbearpig wrote:

Any LCD will always be a compromise and the inferior technology.

That used to be true... but LCDs and especially OLED screens can be fantastic.

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Resolution is. I agree, picture quality is perfectly alright nowadays. But the signal quality has a lot to do with it! Just like the quality of recordings when playing music. Many decent gamers still use CRTs. Greetings