Beosound Bollard

[beojeff]

I was looking on the B&O site and saw the new Beosound Bollard speaker. Could this be the third new product of which we were not to speak? You bury the subwoofer part underground?! I instantly pictured myself lounging by the pool and suddenly a giant sand worm from “Dune” appears.

[matador]

Here

[Glitch]

… and here(?)

 

[Stan]

Glitch wrote:

… and here(?)

I wasn’t expecting that!  Then again, the B&O site says you need a Beoamp 125.4 which doesn’t seem to exist so who kows what is going on here.

I also noticed that if you download the manual, it is branded as “B&O | Origin Acoustics”

[etype76]

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[AdamS]

Beosound “Bollard” – love it!

Someone at B&O has a sense of humour!

[Millemissen]

Please notice that in the link that goes to Origin Acoustics (and on their website) there is no mentioning whatsoever of Bang & Olufsen.
Also the name there is SEASONS LSB64 and The Landscape Bollard Loudspeaker.

I am not so sure that it was someone at B&O, who had ‘a sense of humor’.

It seems more like a product (with an included BS Core) that they also brand Bang & Olufsen – but in reality was something that Origin Acoustics came up with for the most part.
Would be interesting to know, if the amp that they mention is the same as what B&O calls Beoamp 125.4.

MM

[AdamS]

Indeed. Looking into it, it seems to be an Origin Acoustics product, although their DSP3-700 amplifier appears visually different to the Beoamp. Then again,. the instruction books are pretty much the same, so I’d need persuading just how much B&O DNA is in these.

[Millemissen]

<!–more–>Probably something that a (US) installer can offer, when he does a whole house B&O installation.

Not something that can be of much use in a danish climate.

MM

[trackbeo]

AdamS wrote:

Beosound “Bollard” – love it! Someone at B&O has a sense of humour!

Huh? Vocab-check: It’s a short, thick post on the deck of a ship or on a wharf, to which a ship’s rope may be secured. But in architectural parlance, it’s any short immobile post — nowadays, used mostly to divert (or disable) vehicles!

AdamS wrote:

I’d need persuading just how much B&O DNA is in these.

Yeah, notice that the installation sheet says “must” be ordered as a package with the amp… wonder if they enforce that “DNA” in the dealer’s ROS?

Millemissen wrote:

Not something that can be of much use in a danish climate.

Why, does rain in Denmark always go sideways? Maybe not for installation on a North Sea oil platform…  A drain plug in the bottom can be left in or opened up, at installer’s option.

[Millemissen]

trackbeo wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

Not something that can be of much use in a danish climate.

Why, does rain in Denmark always go sideways? Maybe not for installation on a North Sea oil platform… A drain plug in the bottom can be left in or opened up, at installer’s option.

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No, but I usually do not spend much time in the garden, when it rains.

MM

[AdamS]

After doing a bit more research on this and discovering that it’s purely passive and needs an external amplifier and a Core to do anything approaching B&O integration, how does it get a “Beosound” moniker?

Surely, if anything, it’s actually a “Beovox” Bollard?

[Millemissen]

A video that sheds some light on the relation B&O <-> Origin Acoustics for the Bollard here

MM

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