Nickyg63 wrote:

Cars reflect their country of origins very well!

Shhh, the Americans might take offense! 😎

Thanks guys, some really great feedback here, muchos gracias!

Electrified wrote:

Nickyg63 wrote:

Cars reflect their country of origins very well!

Shhh, the Americans might take offense! 😎

Have you ever tried eating a hamburger while driving a German car!? Impossible! You can barely take a road nap in those things!

So.. why do you buy Bang & Olufsen?

Easy, because all the products link together.  It's a collection that lasts for generations, a new BEO5 could work with my fathers BS9500 from 20 years ago, amazing.

TripEnglish wrote:

 

Have you ever tried eating a hamburger while driving a German car!? Impossible! You can barely take a road nap in those things!

He he, no -  When I want a hamburger while driving I have someone else driving the car. It paves the way for an exceptional long nap before I have to hit the restroom with the car running for a quick getaway😁

My initial exposure to B&O was in college, I saw a Beomaster 1900 and S35 (or S45) "phase link" speakers. The touch controls on the unit were seemingly magic; this was one of the first consumer products to leverage digital controls and display for something that used to be a knob. Being a student, I couldn't afford any of this but thought one day I'd like to. Years later I was in a local hi-fi shop and they had a BC9300 w/BL8000 speakers on display- I instantly recognized the 9300 as an evolution of the item I had seen years earlier, and having been a pipe maker in an organ shop, I thought the 8000's were just the best looking speaker ever. So I bought a system, and when our house was built I had it wired with MCL cable and added BL3500s in the bedroom and kitchen, and CX-50s w/ a Cona in the family room to go with the TV. I have the TV setup with a Lintronic box to control the DVR, DVD, VCR, Apple TV and lights. I also have an Airport Express for playing iTunes, and a Ridax cable so my iTunes responds to control commands from the datalink connection. The 9300 is nice in that it has two extra inputs for the iTunes and TV sound.

While my initial purchase was driven by mostly aesthetic factors and sound, I learned quickly to appreciate the smaller details in the controls. Back when I first bought the 9300, I had to make tapes of CDs to play in my car. When recording the tape, when the CD was finished, it automatically stopped the tape- just a nice little touch that most any other systems didn't have. Although I never use tapes in the car or at home anymore, the way the beocenter handles indexing of the tapes is pretty cool, the way the number lit up, it numbered the pieces as it played, and kept track of what side of the tape the markers were on so you could quickly go to whatever piece you selected.

The long-term durability is phenomenal. I don't know the total hours the 9300 has be on, but it's on for several hours per day since the mid 90's, mostly running the CX50s/Cona. I hate to think what I would have to do if the system went out since none of the current products (control units) have the "wow" factor, except the BS9000. 

As a brand, I think B&O represents a certain ethic. So many modern products suffer from the so-called Casio Effect, where a new product does 95% of the function with 5% of the effort. No one wants to put in that extra effort to make things just a little nicer, to do it really right. The older I get the more I marvel at things made before the industrial revolution, such as some amazing cathedral. Nowadays such a project wouldn't get any traction because a pole-barn makes a more cost-effective worship meeting place and here in the US at least you see churches spring up in very basic structures. Everything is done to meet a cost/profit goal, not for the pleasure of doing the thing itself; MBAs rule (ruin?) the world while the arts shrivel up. Hopefully, B&O will navigate the realities of the modern business world and survive healthy enough to continue to bring forth products that speak to the deeper human need for beauty.

"It's not snobbery if you do something as a way it should be. This is the respect and passion."

These products are absolutely not about the "speed, price, quantity". IMHO who are talking about these things, they don't understand the art, and the feeling to own and enjoy a masterpiece. They are the ones, who wish only to buy something, to race, to talk about the cheaper prices or the resolution and so such irrelevant things in this cases. They want to "win" to be better then the ones who owns these products - and to have good looking arguments on why they were purchased different products.

But it's useless.

You can always park with a good looking Jaguar in front of the Casino in Monte Carlo, but You will never park there with a gold plated Phaeton even it worth ten times more money. It's just the same if You show a Beosystem 2500 to any "newbees", because they will call it a "Sci-Fi music system from the future". And that's the real difference between a consumer product and a heritage. A heritage is timeless.

IMHO, if You forget about the money, the question and the answer will be obvious in these cases:

- Will You purchase products from these brands?

 - [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP1LmffrRxw#t=5m17s] (- 5m29)

So IMHO the correct question is not "why do You buy B&O?", but "Why? Why not!" 🤒

Because I'm a pseud with more money that sense?

Henry wrote:

Because I'm a pseud with more money that sense?

Are you here to troll or something?

Not that I don't misspell stuff, but it's spelled "suit".

Concise Oxford English Dictionary:

pseud n Brit informal a pretentious person; a poseur

But then you know that and are just trying to troll me.