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Beolab 50 - addressing the speaker/room interface.

Jonboi

Because Music Matters
Bang & Olufsen have introduced their latest high end loudspeaker, using technology initially developed for the Beolab 90

Given that their stated design aim is to allow you to hear in your home what the recording engineer heard in the studio, there is some very interesting technology on board as regards room compensation such as to acoustically maximise the speaker/room interface - something that affects all loudspeakers in a room, and which few if any brands otherwise address.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBWnjRrotz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2Vu12hqD4&index=1&list=PLRPmJ785xnMi0nBHAKH25GbHItnj_1E8Q&spfreload=10

Enjoy!

Cheers
 
Jonboi — I have no B&O dealer nearby unfortunately, but they do look spiffy. I guess some of the technology has trickled down.

Raj — Around £22,000, I think. Too rich for me, but at least it's not stratospherically high.

Joe
 
OMFG this is mid-century-modern/hipster/technological PORN. I need 20 minutes and a box of tissues.

Man do these look slick. If they deliver 85% of the 90's for 35% of the cost....what a deal.

Sexier than F*ck.
 
Interesting. Look rather nicer than the golf-bag 90 IMO. I'm sure there will be a lot more trickle-down to come as £22k is still way over what I'd have thought was B&O's core demographic.
 
Interesting. Look rather nicer than the golf-bag 90 IMO. I'm sure there will be a lot more trickle-down to come as £22k is still way over what I'd have thought was B&O's core demographic.

Tony, just to clarify, high-priced is/was has been their core demographic for years. They just didn't make terribly good equipment previously.

I mean I remember selling the 6-cd changer stand/desk mount jobbie with the Beolab 6000's (upside down pencils) in the mid/late 90's. The package was $15,000 cdn. back then and you could EASILY outperform it for $6,000.00. Hell even $5000.00. AND got more features. They just looked sexier than most other stuff at the time. It was also fairly reliable. But if you ever cracked the grill of a 6000 and looked inside it was pathetic what was going on in there: not much componentry to speak of or even deal with. IN today's dollars that would have to be at least double if not $40k for a system.

What has changed, significantly, is that the commitment to serious, competitive quality has gone back into the product. Nobody ever, ever, raved about the performance of a B&O component....well....i believe in at least 30 years. (until the new BL 90's). I mean if someone wants they can try to dig something up but their receivers, powered monitors, TT"s, ranged from shit to mediocre pap for the last 3 decades as far as I can recall.
 
Interesting. Look rather nicer than the golf-bag 90 IMO. I'm sure there will be a lot more trickle-down to come as £22k is still way over what I'd have thought was B&O's core demographic.

I'd've thought that £22k is well within your B&O type persons budget - call it £30k maybe a bit more with a tv. 7 x 300 Watt amps per speaker, digital in, a fair bit for yer money, could still be a heap of hi-tech crap, could be good, who knows. Worth a listen, probably.
 
Indeed. The B&O TV that most people go for is £7200, £22k for speakers, plus 3k for rears. That's the usual bonus figure for the red trouser wearing brigade.

They'll sell lots more 50's than 90's - those 90's have the WAF of a coffin.
 
I hope there's a safety device on those tweeters.. my kids would adore putting their fingers inside when it's on the way down...
 
I mean if someone wants they can try to dig something up but their receivers, powered monitors, TT"s, ranged from shit to mediocre pap for the last 3 decades as far as I can recall.

I take it you've not heard a Beomaster 8000 then...;)
 
Seriously, you guys think this is a price that anyone would consider reasonable? the folk this is aimed at don't want to understand or care about sound quality, they want a party piece to discuss with the Jone's over dinner.
FFS 70% of the UK population wouldn't even spend half that on a car and some peoples house probably cost as much up't north!! this is not real world moneys.
 
I mean if someone wants they can try to dig something up but their receivers, powered monitors, TT"s, ranged from shit to mediocre pap for the last 3 decades as far as I can recall.

I take it you've not heard a Beomaster 8000 then, or a pair of Beovox MS150s, or the Beolab 5s...;)
 
Seriously, you guys think this is a price that anyone would consider reasonable? the folk this is aimed at don't want to understand or care about sound quality, they want a party piece to discuss with the Jone's over dinner.
FFS 70% of the UK population wouldn't even spend half that on a car and some peoples house probably cost as much up't north!! this is not real world moneys.

Average house price in London is £600,000. Average house price in Kensington and Chelsea is £2million. £20k is buttons for such folk. Their houses increase in value by that in a year. For doing f*ck all.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...own-housing-market-brexit-pound-a7785241.html
 
Shame our local Bang & Olufsen store (Eastbourne)shut recently along with quite a few others :( and therefore nowhere to demo locally.
 
Yeah that motorized tweeter going up and down is a bit naff - what's the point of that, exactly? Just a visual effect to impress people?

Certainly reminds me why I dislike B&O - a bit like in the nineties, when they had this mini system that sounded crap, but had two glass doors that would open automatically when you came close with your hands, yay! You could certainly hear where the money was invested. :rolleyes:

Granted, this clearly seems to be more serious, and orders of magnitude more expensive, but it's just too gimmicky for my taste.
 
Samuel,

Yeah that motorized tweeter going up and down is a bit naff - what's the point of that, exactly? Just a visual effect to impress people?
The one percenters like their hi-fi motorized, but it does make you wonder what the cost would be without the frills.


Joe
 
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