Terrible music? Or is it just me?

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Went to the official site, and was assaulted by some truly detestable synthesizer music completely lacking in acoustic temperament (which is a way of describing music played by something that is alive.)

Why does B&O use such execrable music? Can you remember when they launched the BeoSound 3, and made a movie for it, with music that could be used to make Torquemada confess to anything.

B&O should exclusively use music created with real instruments, by real musicians - and on the rare occasions that they do use computer-generated soundtracks, then at least ensure that they are interesting.

in general i hate the idea of music on websites. Normally I have something on on the site or am at work. So I constantly have to have my speakers switched off ...
they made it using Apple Garageband. I can recognize the loops. So... some one use Apple products in B&O... ;-)

I noticed when working for a VC company and phoning CEOs abroad that the hold music usually had specific themes depending on the geographic location. In Israel for example they had a bad midi rendition of a classical piece of music that I can't remember the name of. Whereas in the Netherlands/Finland or even Austria they always had music that sounded to me like porno loops with a ridiculously stylised voice over the top stating the company's name.

 Don't know what is worse, these two or the UKs eclectic mix of really old power ballads, which have been distorted, and granulised.

 Not that I am a connoisseur of porn. However I have hitherto watched some in my formative years!

Also, Flash websites are not good, they are annoying - why should you have to wait hours for loads of annoying animations to load up and tonnes of stupid music. This is not hyperbole some of these websites were so laden with this nonsense that you could not actually fathom what the company was selling!

They also demonstrate deep-house music on the lab 5's 😁

Whatever Soundproof! I'm gonna download that great music onto my BeoSound 6 and rock out! Maybe I'll throw on some Bose headphones so I can cancel out any noise that isn't that great music!

(my browser won't let me insert a smiley face, otherwise you'd see one winking) 

 

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All they have to do is play a minute from selected portions of the Salonen/LA Philharmonic Rite of Spring if they want to demonstrate what the BL5s can do -- those bass beats push plate glass windows as if they were balloons.

There's quite a bit of good house and trance -- what they're putting above is home-made. The trouble with generated music is that it rarely sounds as if a human was involved -- the beats are too precise, where a human drummer and orchestra would have slight (and often deliberate) variations that give the music its unique signature.
 

Inserted a wink for you TripEnglish - on the house. It'll cost you a pint next timeπŸ˜•πŸ˜Ž

 

Chris.

Usually, my PC speakers are turned off. But I turned them on to listen to the music on the Bang & Olufsen site. And turned them off the next second or so. My god, it sounds really awful. I agree with Soundproof on this one.
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