Steffen Schmelling in B&O design...

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I think we should wait til we see, hear and feel the device before we pass judgement.
Gosh, it doesn't seem promising but I don't think we should have Mr Schmelling hung, drawn a quartered just yet.
Just my opinion.

Andy T.

The BeoSound 6 was a nice design, two years ago.  Unfortuantly it no longer looks special at all and apple have bought out a superior lookign product.

 The biggest issue for Bang, is that it needs to start making special products again - not rebadged Samsung products - everyone knows this is a rebadged Samsung product and that, in my eyes is a cop out.

jandyt:

I think we should wait til we see, hear and feel the device before we pass judgement.
Gosh, it doesn't seem promising but I don't think we should have Mr Schmelling hung, drawn a quartered just yet.
Just my opinion.

Andy T.

True, true.  I'm sure there's a reason B&O picked him. 

That's why I said "I'm sure he could have done better". I somehow feel like B&O picked up the Samsung player and then put his name next to it. I just don't see any design in this product, it is just a box that can play music...

I'm not particularly taken by the shape of BS6. Not that intriguing, but i'll bet it's easy to use which is a very important aspect of B&O products.

I had a look at the samsung alternative the other day and the screws down each side are visable and the feel is poor. I think with this simple border the "feel" will improve dramatically.

I hope the BS6 does offer extemely good sound quality, and good user interaction.

jazz

Give Steffen some room...

I'm rather fond of the non-B&O stuff he designed... and to my very humble opinion.. I can sum up some stuff which D. Lewis designed on a Monday morning... or after a bad hangover as well!

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beosound-Essence.png Beosound-Essence.png
Beosound-Emerge.png Beosound-Emerge.png
Beosound-Balance.png Beosound-Balance.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-S3.png Beoplay-S3.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H9i.png Beoplay-H9i.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
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