ed7 wrote:

This takes the debate about people/customers parting with their cash i am sure everyone of us can buy /afford this product!!!BUT it seems a rip-off!!! pass the saving to customers and see!!!

Boil it down to basics, and all luxury products - and indeed most stuff sold for its "design" - are ripoffs. They are sold for much more than they are worth.

I have plenty of such ripoff products and I'm very happy with them.

tournedos wrote:

ed7 wrote:

This takes the debate about people/customers parting with their cash i am sure everyone of us can buy /afford this product!!!BUT it seems a rip-off!!! pass the saving to customers and see!!!

Boil it down to basics, and all luxury products - and indeed most stuff sold for its "design" - are ripoffs. They are sold for much more than they are worth.

I have plenty of such ripoff products and I'm very happy with them.

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This is easy seriously, wake up Paul Finn!

WHO CARES where it is made if it is great quality! So long as the factory workers are treated well and paid fairly.

Medicine requires a lot diplomacy...

I think this discussion is de-railing. Haven't heard the Beosound 8, but aparently it's a very capable product for reasoable price, at least for B&o that is, so why the fuss?  If the thing sells in large numbers it helps B&o to continue their business, make more money out of expensive products and stay alive (which is not garantied these days).

As a real B&o enthousiast one should be happy with this new product, it sounds good, looks good, is well made, well priced, and last but not least: IT SELLS!

Looking back in history, B&o have made far worse products than this, nobody made remarks about the cheap plastics used on the Beovision MX series, or the far eastern components used in every Beocenter/vision. 

jc wrote:

Looking back in history, B&o have made far worse products than this, nobody made remarks about the cheap plastics used on the Beovision MX series, or the far eastern components used in every Beocenter/vision. 

Wasn't the bulk of MX's made foremost in the 1980s? Before the advent of the internet?

Also, you could almost buy a B&O telly back then for the price of the iPod dock from them cost these days.

I just realized from a short trip to Beocentral that the last MX (8000) was made in 2005!

Oh well, I don't think I've seen such a new model, only the left-overs from the 1980s, and perhaps a few from the early 1990s.

B&o always has been expensive, MX tv's were not for free back then. Anyway, I think complains about pricing/pricelevel is too much a subject on this site. Would like to see more discussion about products, capabilities, quality of B&o. Yes you can buy a good performing AV-product elsewhere for little money, always was that way. So feel free to do so, and don't spoil this forum with complains about not getting a Aston Martin for the price of a Vokswagen Polo.

jc wrote:

B&o always has been expensive, MX tv's were not for free back then.

LOL; I wasn't making the point that they were for free. I was making the point that they were relative speaking much easier to pay for. If anything is true of B&O, it's their sky-rocketing prices of their TVs in the last decade or so.

Another of my points was just that: Back then, you could get a reasonably priced tv from B&O that didn't cost much more than what they charge for the iPod dock w/speakers these days. Okay, so maybe £500 more.

Hell, even today, the iPod dock is expensive compared to what you can get from B&O:

Until recently, for just over £2200 you could get the small  Beovision 8, whereas the iPod dock costs a whopping £900.  Even in B&O's price set-up it isn't cheap. It's only cheap compared to their top products, but since this is not a top product, but a lowly dock with speakers, it should be compared with their "lower" ranges.

It isn't even a stand-alone product, but hinges on a product from another company. It's an accessory for a product from another company.

How about comparing it to the Beolab 3500? You can use the BS8 as a link speaker and it also has the ability to be used as a dock. And it sounds as least as good as the 3500 and is cheaper.