What's the WORST product in the B&O line-up

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We've had some stinkers over the years, but thankfully they are becoming fewer in number as the designers and engineers (and CEO's !!) realise you can't ride the brand name for too long. People get smart!

However, there must be a product int he current line-up which you really think is rubbish, pointless, badly designed, not really fit for it's purpose ?

Choose one product and tell us all why...

Only going by appearance in the showroom, but the Beosound 4 seems not much of an improvement on the Beocenter 2. Poor design and increased price (???)  just for the sake of an SD card slot???

Graham

Edit. May be lower cost, but it looks it!

The BeoVision 4-85/103. 

A succinct encapsulation of everything that was wrong with the company. Every aspect is absolutely out of whack, even for an elite clientele. Price is too high, size is too unwieldy, installation is a nightmare, hardly displayed anywhere. 

Beosound 5

A digital music player that was 5 years past its prime when it first came out.

It's supposed to free your music collection but instead needs to be attached to an ugly box and remain in one place in the room. Way overpriced as well

Beosound 4, because it has an SD slot that is so limited when it comes to file types and bit rates, rendering it useless.  It's a product that was already behind the curve before it was launched, still for sale,  taunting me with all its cheap plastics.

 

Hi Lee,

Beoplay line included ?

beoplay v1 and beoplay 12 look ugly for me.

I owned a beosound 4 and now a beocenter 2, maybe the bc2 is well made but this unit is very slowwwww compared to the beosound 4, the bc2 has no movment detector neither, it is maybe a cheaper design but not if you consider the specifications.

Has to DVD2. A mare of a product to operate never mind instruct a customer on how to use it.

Opman

Oops, just re-read op. Obviously DVD2 is not current.

@olvisab What is a Beoplay 12 - a new product that we haven't seen yet?

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How about asking:

"What is the WORST thread on Beoworld at the moment?"

Grrr! MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

The bonkers looking archery target that has three wooden legs!!!!!! mad and very bad  :-(

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