I thought of posting this under the What System thread, but then I thought why not start a thread on the topic of successful demos you all have done at home ... where we have knocked the socks off our family, friends, or guests ... and they have gone *wow* and had a B&O lightbulb moment.
[ now admittedly this demo had some Apple *wow* in it too ]
Friends were dropping by to catch up over some wine and nibbles.
In preparation I attached my Macbook to the HDMI and analogue audio connections of our BoeVision 8, loaded up the iPhoto book I have made of our latest trip, started iTunes on one of the Genius Mixes, I loaded a CD and an SD into my BS4, and we were ready to go ...
I selected PC in the family room where the BV8 is and L-PC in the sitting room where the BS4 is so on arrival the guests were greeted to pleasant music from their entry at the front of the house (BL 6000s) and as they walked through to the back (BL 3s)
As we sipped the wine I asked casually if they wanted to see the montage of the trip ... and handed them a wireless Apple control to step through the iPhoto book ... so the first *wow* was how great the layout of the pictures looked, and I disclaimed all credit explaining it was Apple auto-magic
Then we got to the second *wow*, I said "yes, this is coming from my Apple" and dropping out of iPhoto I flipped into ITunes and:
- showed where the music was coming from
- showed a tourist HD video podcast of London's borough market
- played an audio podcast from Oxford University
- and played an HD episode from a TV series.
One friend then said "don't you play CDs any more?"
So then I gave the third *wow* and:
- played a CD from the BS4 in the sitting room
- explained that the BS4 had a memory card that my BeoSound 2 (translation for audience "MP3 player") and played music from the card
- and then I accessed "RADIO" to finalise the demonstration
So the other friend picked up the remote (Beo 4), hefted it and said "it's heavy because of all the batteries it needs to reach the other room".
So I said "not really", and explained the system was "networked" and the same audio sources were available in the bedrooms using any of our Beo 4s.
Fourth *wow*.
And all I set out to do was show the holiday snaps :)
So what is your *wow* story ?
First B&O (1976) was a Beogram 1500 ... latest (2011) change has been to couple the BL11 with the BL6Ks *sounds superb*