First, as a proud owner of a 65" Harmony with smoked Oak panels, I only can say how impressed I am by the whole kit. It has this kind of magic (not to much, not to little) to feel like a true B&O experience on a day to day use. Also the sound does not disappoint, it is actually really good. I owned tons of different B&O TV's starting from a BV3, BV6, BV7-32 to a BV4-50. BV1's are still in the bedrooms.
Second, some observations (I guess other owners might have discovered as well) after more than a month of living with it.
Currently it sits on the floor stand, I have the wall bracket as well and hopefully the next couple of weeks it will move to the wall. I did not put the cover on floor plate so it is actually black which I like much more. The aluminums/bronze/brass cover adds to much of an extra for my tase, so to have nice black cover as an option would be nice.
The C9 panel was wall mounted before with the Stage, with the Harmony it moves away from the wall quite a bit. In our setup we have a open dining and sitting room, so I think it is fair to say that the side view might not the best for the Harmony.
BL5 as front, 2 pairs of BL3 in the back, two are wired two are connected with WISA. I have an other pair of BL4 which will be mounted on the ceiling in the future.
The cable management is OK, but not more. With the GX series I guess it will get better, as well with the extra cover that comes with the 88" version. If you wire you're 7.0.2, have 2 HDMI sources with PUC cables to connect these are a lot cables to be tunneld through the cable management and to be moved up and down.
Also quite impressive is how the footprint of a big TV is covered by the panels and sitting on the floor shrinks and does not dominate the wall. When you see the the 77" and the 65" in the showroom, even the 77" looks not to big, but at home... I might upgrade to a 77" later, but Wife needs some time to adjust to the size :-)
On my wishlist for B&O for a potential updated version:
- multi channel room calibration, I think this is a big miss by B&O
- fix this 5.1 vs 7.1 input depending if you connect the sources to the sound center or the panel
- why not have HDMI -CEC as an option from the sound center if you do not want to run an extra cable and happy with the CEC functions
- ability to upgrade the sound center when new formats arrive (both audio and video)
- same for the brackets to mount LG panels on top of the stand so you can upgrade in the future as LG has a new line up every year
- more colors :-)
So overall I am very happy, TrueImage does an excellent job to fill the room with sound and OLED is just perfect. I think the best TV set on the market. Not more, not less.
