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  • 03-07-2011 9:37 AM

    • Daniel
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    B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Hi, found this in a Swedish newspaper. I don´t think it a Swedish comic strip, maybe German?

    Guy in green: "How do you open it?"

    Guy in red: "I've forgot ..."

    Box below: "If Bang&Olufsen made cars"

    Hmm

    Anyone?


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  • 03-07-2011 10:01 AM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    I guess they are saying two things

    1. B&O units are usually (?!) black shiny and rectangular -- (OK, true of my Beosystem 5000 units)

    2. how to open them is often magical (also true of my 5000, but also thing of the glass doors that open on approach, or the DVD player of the BV7 which is invisible, etc, etc)

    First B&O (1976) was a Beogram 1500 ... latest (2011) change has been to couple the BL11 with the BL6Ks *sounds superb*

  • 03-07-2011 10:19 AM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Maybe it's a sly dig that B&O is hard to operate? (It's not)

    I have a friend that likes to joke that B&O is unintuitive, unobvious and basically hard to use.

  • 03-07-2011 10:56 AM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Llewelyn:

    Maybe it's a sly dig that B&O is hard to operate? (It's not)

    I have a friend that likes to joke that B&O is unintuitive, unobvious and basically hard to use.

    Hi

    I have seen that strip somewhere, but forgot where.

    I can understand your friend, but not as a joke. I find that B&O are quite unintuitive and hard to use. At least nowadays compared to User Inteface in an iPhone for instance. Maybe they had good user interface once upon a time ( I do not know). After a couple of years of using B&O there are things that I do not dare to try. One example would be to change treble or bass in the kitchen. If I did that I would have no idea what I was doing, since there is no graphic showing how much I had changed in one or another direction. And if I have changed the treble or bass, how would I get it back to neutral again. The result is that I do not dare to try.

    No, the strength in B&O is definitely not the User Interface, it is looks, sound and mystique.

    B R

    Clakke

  • 03-07-2011 11:25 AM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Clakke:
    I have seen that strip somewhere, but forgot where.

    Somewhere on this forum recently, and of course possibly in a newspaper...

    It's by Wulffmorgenthaler, and they are Danish, so they probably know what they are implying here - I'm not so sure myself either Laughing

    http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/

    -mika

  • 03-07-2011 4:56 PM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    tournedos:

    Clakke:
    I have seen that strip somewhere, but forgot where.

    Somewhere on this forum recently, and of course possibly in a newspaper...

    Oops, sorry for that. Missed it on this forum.

    They only thing I hear from people not having B&O it's the usual "overpriced Philips". Not that it's just a black box without user interface.

     

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  • 03-07-2011 6:17 PM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Daniel:

    Hi, found this in a Swedish newspaper. I don´t think it a Swedish comic strip, maybe German?

    Guy in green: "How do you open it?"

    Guy in red: "I've forgot ..."

    Box below: "If Bang&Olufsen made cars"

    Hmm

    Anyone?

     

    Think about the Beosound 9000 if you never saw B&O before...

    How would you even turn it on???

    Craig knows the answer to this LaughingLaughingLaughingYes -  thumbs up

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  • 03-07-2011 6:49 PM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    .


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  • 03-07-2011 6:53 PM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    LaughingLaughingLaughing

     

    Evan

     

  • 03-07-2011 6:58 PM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Hahahaha! Laughing

  • 03-07-2011 8:06 PM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    I thought it was just a statement regarding minimalism.

    Current primary listening:  SMMC20EN -> BG4002 -> BM4000 -> Beovox M70

     

  • 03-08-2011 3:55 AM In reply to

    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    Laughing

     

    The Apple version is better.

     

    To be honest, I also find the B&O interface a bit difficult at times... The sequence of button pressing ie setting options, or doing more advanced programming is a bit puzzling at times. Basic operations couldn't be easier though.

     

     

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  • 03-08-2011 6:41 AM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    The Apple joke I understand, it even made me laughing.

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  • 03-08-2011 10:00 AM In reply to

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    Re: B&O in comic drawing, I don´t get the point

    The Apple joke was hilarious. Big Smile

    Though I may be biased, since my parents own a company that makes blocks of stone quite similar to that one.
    http://www.microbas.se/

    Take a look at the surface plates here... http://www.microbas.se/eng/pages.aspx?r_id=48571

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