Very pleased with it, and will buy the fully featured version when it comes out. I'm using it on my iPad and my iPhone - no trouble installing it on the iPad, where it is read as a Phone-app, but I just press the 2x-button in the lower right hand corner to expand the screen to the iPad's size. The alarm clock and sleep timer functions alone

I agree with Doctor, there's no reason for B&O to leave this playing field, but they do have to recognize that the absolute convenience they once offered in the analog domain is something customers also expect in the digital. A BeoSound 2 without display, one-way remotes, and a BeoSound 3200 which you had to name the music in with your Beo4

This is a strange thread. Membership has risen and activity is good. At the same time, B&O have gone through substantial turmoil, leadership changes and store closings, chiefly as a result of B&O losing the plot as to market wants and needs - at an enthusiasts' forum one discusses the good and the bad of such developments, and everything

Ooops, taking liberties. In 1968, the leads from the tonearm were soldered to a distribution board, to which the DIN-plug cable leads were soldered. We've cheated, and Frede has added RCA-contacts under the palisander tonearm boards for both the 9" and 12" tonearms. This makes switching tonearms much simpler - and we're running an

Frede Kristensen has gone to town on the player. Full disassembly: 42 years of sludge having turned into asphalt, under the engine bearing:

There's been progress. The final tone layer has been sprayed on, and the paint is now hardening before final assembly.

Methinks Paul Winn doth protest too much ... and by that I mean that the rant is totally disconnected from today's manufacturing reality. Brands around the world have to perform balancing acts to maintain their brand essence while diluting it with non-core parts and labor. Look at James Dyson, who for years railed against the outsourcing of manufacturing

I'm just wondering what HiFi product can be made in one place ... Assembled, yes, but made? Maybe CDs, using this method: It is impossible for B&O to defend its present distribution of dealerships with products made exclusively in Denmark. Simply can't be done. There would no point in having high-street stores if that was the aim. If B&O

I believe in Goldmund's case they were up front about it, telling clients they were using the Pioneer innards in order to create a dvd-player - and their clients didn't want the player to be cheap (an Eidos player, if I remember correctly). Lexicon did the same thing when they declared they would be wrapping an Oppo BD83 with a Lexicon skin

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