A good review overall!

Graham

Looks like they were not that impressed with the BeoMusic app though:

"It works fine, but it’s too ordinary – when you’re spending £800 on a speaker you want something slick and nice to use. Its plain blue interface looks unfinished (in a way, we almost hope it is) and scrolling through a 3000-song music library takes a while.

The bottom line: it needs to be better."

badgersurf wrote:

Looks like they were not that impressed with the BeoMusic app though:

"It works fine, but it’s too ordinary – when you’re spending £800 on a speaker you want something slick and nice to use. Its plain blue interface looks unfinished (in a way, we almost hope it is) and scrolling through a 3000-song music library takes a while.

The bottom line: it needs to be better."

I guess, that will be a matter of taste.

I like the 'plain blue interface' and am happy, that B&O did not go for the candy-like kind of interface, that you may find elsewhere.

But the reviewer is right - probably not the best interface if your main usage of the A6 is DLNA-based streaming from a big local library.

However, how many A6 owners are using it that way?

MM

Millemissen wrote:

But the reviewer is right - probably not the best interface if your main usage of the A6 is DLNA-based streaming from a big local library.

However, how many A6 owners are using it that way?

I know I, for one, for the A6 and Essence, will be using it mainly to explore a DLNA library. I do hope B&O are investing as many resources into the BeoMusic App as they are in other areas of development. Especially since Beomusic is the key to operating the majority of their audio products (A9, A6, Essence). Not including the Moment, but you can also say that Beomusic is a component of the Moment's operational interface as well.

Sal wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

But the reviewer is right - probably not the best interface if your main usage of the A6 is DLNA-based streaming from a big local library.

However, how many A6 owners are using it that way?

I know I, for one, for the A6 and Essence, will be using it mainly to explore a DLNA library. I do hope B&O are investing as many resources into the BeoMusic App as they are in other areas of development. Especially since Beomusic is the key to operating the majority of their audio products (A9, A6, Essence). Not including the Moment, but you can also say that Beomusic is a component of the Moment's operational interface as well.

Their problem is price and you are just reinforcing that fact. The money you spent on an essence you could have gotten an iMac and used that to interface the hell out of all sorts of things.  

Shame, the A6 seems ok for some people but it's price is 30% too high. Guess that's why B&O finds themselves in such a troubling financial situation. 

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

Sal wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

But the reviewer is right - probably not the best interface if your main usage of the A6 is DLNA-based streaming from a big local library.

However, how many A6 owners are using it that way?

I know I, for one, for the A6 and Essence, will be using it mainly to explore a DLNA library. I do hope B&O are investing as many resources into the BeoMusic App as they are in other areas of development. Especially since Beomusic is the key to operating the majority of their audio products (A9, A6, Essence). Not including the Moment, but you can also say that Beomusic is a component of the Moment's operational interface as well.

Their problem is price and you are just reinforcing that fact. The money you spent on an essence you could have gotten an iMac and used that to interface the hell out of all sorts of things.  

Shame, the A6 seems ok for some people but it's price is 30% too high. Guess that's why B&O finds themselves in such a troubling financial situation. 

You could get an iMac and have a screen in your room and have it looking like an office, at least the A6 blends in more to its surroundings. There is no way my wife would let me get away with an screen in the living room where as the A6 I could get passed her.

Had another look at the A6 in the local store today and pretty my wife was convinced we should get one. To the point of asking about the colours of stitch work on the fabric. And it sounded great too.

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

Their problem is price and you are just reinforcing that fact. The money you spent on an essence you could have gotten an iMac and used that to interface the hell out of all sorts of things.  

Shame, the A6 seems ok for some people but it's price is 30% too high. Guess that's why B&O finds themselves in such a troubling financial situation. 

Currently I have a Mac Mini running headless as a server (doing many more things than just being a music server). I'm going to be porting the server over to a "cheesegrater" Mid 2010 Mac Pro and use the 5 internal drive bays for storage and other duties. (I SOOO wanted to post int he other thread about Apple, but didn't because I could ramble on and on about Apple, and what I think of them. I used to be a fanboy, now I'm just a fan).

So I could have done exactly as you said, but I didn't. I wanted to have no screens in my listening area other than my phone, and I didn't want to be beholden to a mouse, or a "classic" remote for the lack of a better word. I liked the elegance of the Essence remote, and the fact that the only thing in front of me when I start to listen to a piece of music are the speakers. I hit a button on the essence remote and it begins to play. If I don't like the song, I pull out my phone, which is always with me, change the song, and move on. 

The problem with price plagues most of B&O's offerings, but we're talking about Beomusic here. I would imagine that making software enhancements which improve behavior of products and user satisfaction pay way more dividends than the cost of R&D to kick out more products.