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Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

wonderfulelectric — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:18:22 GMT

Dave:
bayerische, i agree with you 100%,
There are too many things to dislike about the BeoSound six to pay a B&o premium for it.
The 'feel' of it is too light and cheap, and the volume it's capable is odd! If you wanted to listen to classical music in a place with background noise, it would be frustrating.
The BeoSound 2 is a B&o product in the way it sounds, feels, and the way it functions. Comparing the two is like comparing chalk and cheese and it's been clearly expressed that this was not B&o's best efforts. What i'd like to know is the REAL reason they relaxed so much on the release of a new product.

Apparently, they still thought it was the 90s where you can get away with cheap quality by simple branding. I think the reason why B&O still cannot produce a money is no object product with a quality that actually matches the price is because it is a public company, it is too small to produce a statement product and too big to have high production cost manufacturing.

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

beocenter9000 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:26:36 GMT

Beosound 6 doesn't look, feel like "actual" B&O product I own one sometimes ago, it was simply awful. I simply can live with it anymore, so I sell it and stick with my Beosound 2 again, its simply better at any point. No matter is sound or building quality or user interface.

The stainless steel bit on the Beosound 6 is just the top and bottom frame. The whole middle part is just a block of anodized plastic in poor finishing standard. It will be fine for a normal company with normal price, but for b&o, is not.

The worst thing of all is you will find a "samsung" logo at the back. Just like finding a toyota logo in a rolls royce.

I can still live with having a samsung logo on serene and serenata, at least they both look and function like B&O style, building quality is wonderful. When people hold up serene or serenata, they will be amazed by the design, people will straight away know is form B&O. Everytime when I hand my Beosound 6 to my friends, they will just ask me whether its a new player from samsung. The first thing come up their mind is " Oh, doesnt it look like the samsung YP-Z5 player". Everything with Beosound 6 is just wrong......

I am very sure that if Beosound 6 is truly design by B&O, it wouldn't came out as a design like this.

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

Dave — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:09:50 GMT

bayerische, i agree with you 100%,

There are too many things to dislike about the BeoSound six to pay a B&o premium for it.

The 'feel' of it is too light and cheap, and the volume it's capable is odd! If you wanted to listen to classical music in a place with background noise, it would be frustrating.

The BeoSound 2 is a B&o product in the way it sounds, feels, and the way it functions. Comparing the two is like comparing chalk and cheese and it's been clearly expressed that this was not B&o's best efforts. What i'd like to know is the REAL reason they relaxed so much on the release of a new product.

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

bayerische — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:52:30 GMT

Chrisreunion:
BS6 has just been voted best MP3 player ever by an independent magazine!OK, the magazine is Danish...but

How a magazine can vote the BS6 to be the best mp3 player in the world goes over and above my intellect... That's just plain stupid. Tested products?

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

Chrisreunion — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:25:42 GMT

Although I'm not a fan of rebadged products, and tested both BS6 and Serenata before buying a Serenata, you should have a look at B&O's official website: BS6 has just been voted best MP3 player ever by an independent magazine!OK, the magazine is Danish...but

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

Bulgarien — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:40:48 GMT

ChrDH:
The beosound 6 is a nice player, but not in the same class as the beosound 2. And the fact that you can buy a pair of A8s and a samsung player for half the price also coolens my interest considerably, don't copy, INNOVATE!

Notice that the software design are not the same,- not all all .

The player itself is Samsung, but what you see on the display and menu is real B&O, not Samsung or anything else.

I love mine,- much more then BS2, that I olso own. They are absolutely in same high class and ind same quality (same polish steel and with same buttons) and its clearly to see that they come from the same family. I

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

Bulgarien — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:32:10 GMT

xegoon:
I've got one BS6, and I really love it. I think is 99,9 % B&O: easy to use, well made, incredible sound... Touch it porduces a "waow effect" in my friends
Maybe expensive, but, it's B&O

Thanks! at last one person that also own a BeoSound 6 and therefore can tell the truth about the B&O feeling. I think it could have been designed by Jacob Jensen in the good old days (its not..)

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

bayerische — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:15:44 GMT

ChrDH:

don't copy, INNOVATE!

Exaclty, and this is what we have come to expect from Beo, that's why I get even more upset with these copied products. Imagine if Jamo made a Beolab 5 clone for 5000 euro. Beo would paint it black, put on the Aluminum discs, instead of Jamos cheapo plastics, and sell it for 17900e. I would be PISSED... This is of course fantasy, but it's the same thing, even if it's on a larger scale.

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

bayerische — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:12:08 GMT

xegoon:

Maybe expensive, but, it's B&O

Sorry to ruin your day, but it's a Samsung in Beo clothes...

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

ChrDH — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:09:12 GMT

I really like the simplicity of my beosound 2, just buy a stack of SD cards so the number of albums on one card is limited (you'll loose your orientation because of the lack of display). The fact that you can control it without looking at it is IMO a definite B&O touch. The beosound 6 is a nice player, but not in the same class as the beosound 2. And the fact that you can buy a pair of A8s and a samsung player for half the price also coolens my interest considerably, don't copy, INNOVATE!

Chr

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

xegoon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:01:08 GMT

I've got one BS6, and I really love it. I think is 99,9 % B&O: easy to use, well made, incredible sound... Touch it porduces a "waow effect" in my friends

Maybe expensive, but, it's B&O

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

bayerische — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:52:25 GMT

xegoon:

Well, sorry for my english, nobody's perfect...
If the Samsung's YP - S2 dosen't look like the B&O's BeoSound 2, I speak english like Shakespeare

Yes it looks like it, but so does a rock.

Beosound 2 is for sure a B&O designed product, it feels and looks as one, but the Beosound 6 is awful. My hate is pure for that thing

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

ChrDH — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:51:16 GMT

bayerische:
xegoon:
bayerische:
I don't think Samsung adopted a Beo idea...
It's obviously designed by Samsung, and Beo made a half-new body to it. And then left Samsung to do the rest based on Samsungs electronically same, design-wise the same MP3 player. As seen in your link. The Samsung version is even esthetically almost identical. So no points to Beo for the design.
Hmm, & what about this?

What about it?

They probably got the idea from the beosound 2.... that was what I first tought of when I saw this Samsung player...

CHr

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

xegoon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:49:15 GMT

Well, sorry for my english, nobody's perfect...

If the Samsung's YP - S2 dosen't look like the B&O's BeoSound 2, I speak english like Shakespeare

Re: BeoSound 6 MP3 player - a look inside

bayerische — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:36:09 GMT

xegoon:
bayerische:
I don't think Samsung adopted a Beo idea...
It's obviously designed by Samsung, and Beo made a half-new body to it. And then left Samsung to do the rest based on Samsungs electronically same, design-wise the same MP3 player. As seen in your link. The Samsung version is even esthetically almost identical. So no points to Beo for the design.
Hmm, & what about this?

What about it?