Gatex:

The Beosound 5 will be this Samsung link repacked as BnO design.

That has got to be the most ridiculous thing anyone on here has ever said. 

Indeed.  They'd never take a piece of junk and try and pass it off as worthy of the name for 10x the price of the original.

Beosound 6 

And stationary system with a hard drive is a crap idea.  No matter how big it is, it will fill up and it will eventually break.  And if I pulled the thing open to discover the HD says Western Digital I would flip the hell out and demand my $5k back.  The SD card system (or better yet a built in, wireless Beoport) is fine for covering the downloaded music.  It's cheap and it'll work and it'll cover the "kids" (or whatever that guy at the top of the last page was alluding to with his "music for the adults" crack) who buy music off the internet.

 

Agreed! The impression I get is that while B&O has been known to re-brand things, other companies do this far more than B&O does at present. They're renown for it because of what happened in the 80s, which was B&O's shaky period.

I haven't actually visited the factory, but having owned plenty of other non-B&O kit, and having heard about/seen pictures of the various factories, B&O are the only ones who seem to stand apart! I relish being able to visit the factory as it sounds like an amazing place. They certainly do amazing things! You won't find anything else as well built as a BeoLab 5, or as flawlessly finished as a BeoCom 2 or BeoCenter 6.

You're so right Alex! So many high end,lifestyle products are re-branded with there own software and so forth. It's just a matter of how well it's done, pulling the ballance of a great product, getting the best resources together. Look at the plasma/LCD market, there are only a handfull of panel makers (Plasma and LCD) but hundred of brands out there for sale. Apple don't make any of there products! computers or iPod's but the research and developement they put into the products pays off because their stuff is great just as B&O's products. It's just a sign of the times, Globalization and outsourcing is done in all markets from clothing, cars to electronics. Even an Enzo Ferrari, some would consider the most elite car to make it into production (not me personally) has a million aspects of out sourcing. It's electronics management system, wheels, tyres, stereo, brakes, ect. You may pay a couple hundred for a nice pare of nikes or Hugo Boss shoes but they don't actually make them, some out sourced sweat shop does. And probably cost 4 to 5% of what you payed for them. B&O can justify what they sell their products at because no other company out there is willing to do what they are capable of doing. BL5's could of sold for twice what they are asking and people would still buy them. Granted some products are pushing it a little (BS6) but people still buy them.

As you say, "people still buy them", which is mainly why B&O never drops the prices...

As for BeoSound 6, TBS in his interview said that it is like comparing the VW Touareg to the Porsche Cayenne: OK Torben, but the Porsche is not 5 times more expensive than the VW!! With 4 times fewer options!

Now that B&O is going "solid state memory", I even wonder if BeoSound 5 will have an SD card reader..Serenata & BS6 have no more SD card slot, so...only hard disk & CD drive? And digital radio?  

I already can't justify the price gap between BeoPort & BeoMedia, so if BeoSound 5 is more expensive than BeoMedia, it has to be quite good (or complete) at what it does..

link

 the samsung version of serenata:

Samsung just got busy with a trio of MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, and WMDRM supporting musicphones: the dual-sliding , slim link with HSDPA, and swivel stick. Most impressive is the €360/$508 Symbian i450 with Touch Wheel music navigation pictured above. Slide 'er up and you're holding an S60 3rd Edition smartphone with 3.6Mbps HSDPA data beneath a 2.4-inch LCD. Slide 'er down to expose metallic speakers with a B&O ICEpower amplifier and Samsung music UI for controlling the tunes stored in its 35MB of internal memory or up to 4GB on microSD expansion. Sure, Bluetooth A2DP stereo audio, 3.5-mm headphone jack, and FM radio as well. The €260/$367 F330 features the physical music controls of the link while packing 3.6Mbp HSDPA, a 2 megapixel camera, and up to 2GB of microSD expansion in a slider measuring just 13.5-mm thin. The F210 then, is a GSM version of the already nabbed by Verizon as the

For me the Beosound 5 must have as rumoured and alluded to by Torben Ballegaard Sørensen with Lee a very unique and totally amazing design.

BUT it must have a next generation user interface which was also alluded too. 

This will, IMHO differentiate this product from others both in the range and out there.  We need a new and much more user friendly way to interact with and use converging technology. 

Most people use very small percentage of a products capabilities once at home whereas with B&O even my 7 year old Son can use 90% of my ML’d house, its many products and their functions very intuitively.

I think I might be getting very excited about the BS5!

i would expect the BeoSound 5 to be very much like this... Perhaps with more exclusive materials and no touch screen. The wheel will be used for searching and navigating.

I actually quite like this product. Might actually be worth exploring.

 
jazz

 

The pricetag is probable the same