Torben in Sunday Times

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Sympathetic article and interview in Sunday Times Business section today. Usual inaccuracies from the journalist - the BS3 does not have AM! - but he comes across very well.

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Thanks. Found a link:

I think the writer was a little disrespectful about Torbens appearance! 😂

He's slim, immaculately groomed and sharply dressed (i've met him twice now) - but the guy makes him out to be some mad, wild haired professor shoe-horned into a Marks & Spencer suit !!  The 'childlike zest' bit is accurate though!!

I'd love to do another, longer interview with him again. Perhaps this year - i can only ask.. 🙂

Lee 

Interesting article.  Torben sounds like a cool guy (heck, he drives a M5 and boats with a beer - what's not to like?).

After reading this article, I'm really interested to see what B&O is going to do with the BeoSound 5.  It almost sounds like they're going to set up a Kaliedescape-like system ( http://www.kaleidescape.com/ ) that incorporates some sort of software (ala Amazon.com) that makes suggestions to you regarding future music choices.

I've made my overly pro-Apple slant well known in these forums, but that doesn't mean that I don't want B&O to succeed in whatever way they can.  In fact, I want my current and future investments in my beloved B&O equipment to be somewhat future-proof. If B&O can do this on their own, then so be it, but please make it integrate well with other "players" so that I don't have to build more than one digital media library. 

Wow he must have alot of energy, seems to be a very busy person but also appears to be reasonably good at dealing with stress, i think the article was well written and interesting.

Interesting also to see that he is an Aquarian, they are said to be eccentric and ahead of their own time...

rgbyhkr - a very informative and insightful post - thank you!

Lee

🙂 

Am I the only one curious why he does not drive an Audi? 
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