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Re: Well done B&O!!!

Tod Daniel — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:46:58 GMT

The Civic coupe is a real nice car - yep my best friend used to have one and now he's copied me with a Black MINI Cooper! Yes I do have my music loud in the car but thats because its easy to get lost in music when it's loud - same when im wearing my BEATS Solo HD headphones!!!

As I live in an apartment it's not really appreciated by my neighbours to have loud music lol! I will probably get a BeoSound 8 in the Autumn but I can quite happily live without one at the moment as Summers on its way so i'll be surfing and mountain biking on my evenings and weekends!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Evan — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:08:54 GMT

And let me guess, you drive around blasting at crazy volumes all the time, right?!

It must be a small car thing, because I previously had a Civic coupe and much prefer it to my Accord. Even though the stereo isn't as good!!

I wish all people on dedicated car forums were so pleasant to talk to. I used to belong to about 4 and they can all be quite hostile places.

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Tod Daniel — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:44:21 GMT

Hey Evan yep the MINI is awesome. Its like driving a go kart and is full of character. I had an Audi A4 before that which did everything right but had no soul! And before that a couple of BMW 3 series. The MINI is incredibly spacious and im 6ft 1 The Harman Kardon speaker system is built into the car when the car was ordered from new so the speakers are totally hidden - actually it is a 10 speaker system as the tweeters are built into the padding near to the windscreen, mid range are high up in the door and woofers lower in the door. The other woofers and tweeters are mounted in the side rear part of the car. The amazing part of the system is the bass and the high volume without any distortion - very well thought out!

Im sure the MINI will have B&O option in time due to the BMW partnership with B&O. Cars like Audi A8s etc are my absolute nightmare as I have to have a car that I drive rather than a car that drives me!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Evan — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:27:27 GMT

Well Paul, we might soon overtake you in the petrol prices with the way things are going here. I've gotten a lot of flack regarding whining about gas prices. Good thing you have yourself a Mini! Must be cramped in that thing with 8 speakers!

I really like having all of my music with me too. I spend waaay too much time in my car and am very thankful Honda put in such a great effort into the audio.

Here at the end of my day I plant myself in my listening chair listening to my 'Labs while the iPod shuffles away.

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Tod Daniel — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:40:47 GMT

Ha Evan you should try living in the UK, our petrol is over 10$ a gallon!!! Yes I love my music more on the move now as I love the great outdoors and whilst at University really got the travel bug! I guess when im old i can sit in my home and listen to my hifi but for now I love the way I can take my entire collection on my iPod whether im in France skiing, running on a beach, chillin in the Maldives or simply running home after a tough bodybuilding workout in the gym (which is what ive just done)

PS Cool system in ur car there buddy!

Music is at the end of the day 'a soundtrack to your life' and that means it has to travel with you :)

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Evan — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:14:37 GMT

It's a tragedy, I also listen to music more in my car than at home. Now that many many people also due this, we are now seeing the auto-audio market sector explode!

Like you Paul, I love listening to music in my car. It's getting harder to drive for fun now that gas is taking a hike. I have a Honda Accord coupe and 7spkr Fostex audio :-D

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Tod Daniel — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:39:42 GMT

Hey Multimedia Robert yes I definately fancy a pair or maybe 2 pairs of BeoLab 3s in white. Definately no thanks to the 5s or 9s though - they are sooooooooooooooo ugly (im sure a few B&O enthusiasts are crying now!

I must say though my favourite place is not my home to listen to music now but in my MINI Cooper on country roads speeding off to the Lake District once a week or visiting home late on a friday night! I guess ive got a real adventure free spirit and this does it for me along with the iPod connected to the Harman Kardon 8 speaker system. Now in B&O were to do a nice speaker system for the MINI...

Re: Well done B&O!!!

-multimedia Robert- — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:28:27 GMT

I welcome here many more new B&O enthousiasts! My tip: Try the B&O APP and test also speakers BeoLab 9 and the 5 and the 3

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Tod Daniel — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:07:49 GMT

Totally agree with Flappo and Heribert. Once you've used an Apple computer you'd never want to go back to Windows. I've been using them since 1995!

Totally agree with pricing. I remember when a B&O was twice the price of a quality product for example Technics/Panasonic. Why it is 5 to 6 times the price now, I really cannot explain except for the words HUGE MARK UP!

Anyway we shall see what the new boss has up his sleeve!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

AdamS — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:04:39 GMT

Whilst I am as delighted as anyone else to see B&O doing well, am I really the only one who is ever so slightly depressed that B&O's best ever selling product turns out to be a Chinese-made ghettoblaster, albeit one that looks distinctive and sounds quite good?!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Flappo — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:12:10 GMT

A lot of us have said for YEARS that bno should embrace Apple rather than trying to fight them.

The success of this product seems to have proven us right.

Next add Airplay ! ( or save that for mk2 ?? )

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Heribert — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:45:11 GMT

I hope B&O analyses this succerss very well. the BS8 is still around double price of competitors product but it brings some additional benefit from Sound and design. So people are willing to pay a premium if there is something unique.

B&O prices for many other products are simply out of bounds (BV7, BV6, BS5). Even if they have some uniqueness regarding Design, Masterlink or STB controls they are 3-4 times the price of competitors (and not double as they were in the past). Apart from price they are missing some key features as HDD recording on a USB. So the range of persons buying these very expensive products is quite limited.

I think the next generation of B&O products should be more like the BS8. Stylish, something special but with all up to date feature at a price not much more than double the price of competitors.

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Evan — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:41:51 GMT

Paul Winn:

Good point Evan! This product will hopefully introduce the brand to a young, cool affluent crowd! Clever marketing is needed now. Let's see B&O in cool young cars like MINI. It's all very well having them in Aston Martin or Audi A8s etc but let's be honest who can afford an Aston? Not exactly a future young B&O customer!

I'm very happy for B&O - well done! And well done to Apple too! 20million iPads sold in 1 year - incredible (just think if just .5% of those customers bought BS8s!!!)

Yes, there aren't many youthful B&O products out there, but this definitely shows interest in the demographic. I think the new vibrant colors of the A8 earbuds were done to match up with popular active/sports wear and such like.

As far as the car audio goes, they are already moving in that direction. The latest addition was BMW, even though they have only debuted a system for the 6 series, the typical procedure does include starting at the top and working their way down the product line (much like they did with Audi: A8, A5, Q7 and then Q5 to name a few, recently there was a concept drawing of the new A3 with ALTs!). So who knows, maybe B&O will hit the ever popular 3 series and get down to a reasonable level.

I can't take my BeoLab 5000s to the dorm, maybe I should work on getting a BeoSound 8!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Step1 — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:12:21 GMT

Very good news and lets hope this continues for the foreseable future!

Re: Well done B&O!!!

Puncher — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:56:36 GMT

They should do very well in China - the shipping costs should be quite reasonable!