Paul's opinion of Bang and Olufsen loudspeakers

B and O make some unusual-looking loudspeakers. What's Paul's opinion?

[colanitower]

An uncle of mine lived in a nice bungalow with a large living room. Enter the room and there was no stereo. He opened a small hidden door in the wall and behind it were a Quad amplifier and a record player. He started a track. Sound came from a pair of subwoofers in a fireplace that appeared converted. Midrange and highs came from within cylindrical lamps standing on the floor and hanging from the ceiling. Only after hearing the music I realized the lamps were just a little bigger than most. It was the greatest sounding invisible system I've ever seen.

[cyclist]

B&O probably has the longest list of patents in the hifi business, huge respect for them.

[tpc]

I cried laughing when you said you would rather listen to the birds. Good stuff.

[Indus]

Bang and Olufsen is the BEST money can buy !

Tell your viewers that:

1) speaker has dedicated amplifiers INSIDE it -

That means:

1a) Each tweeter has its own amplifier
1b) Each Mid range has its own Amplifier

1c) Each Woofer has its own dedicated Amplifier.

And . . .

Bang and Olufsen are beyond STUNNING BY WAY OF DESIGN

SCULPTURAL -

Those walkouts are unmatched in industry -

The Master-link system splits each Chanel in two - which when combined cancels out noise !

The Masterlink System can attach 15 PAIRS of speakers - so you can have a pair of speakers in every room a and the synching is such that there is zero delay in going from one room to the next -

There is NOTHING like Bang and Olufsen on Earth / to compare !

Bang and Olufsen are not just “alright”

They are items transported from tgd future . . . back to where you are - in any time domain.

Toh can now wrap those speakers in Oak frets to give them that homely appearance toh think they lack.

They invented the best of the Class D Amps that they now use !

Oh - and by the way - did you check out that Beosound 9000 !?

In White ?!?!?

[edmaster]

I done some work on a late 90's B&O set. Very clever and it is obvious they really know what they are doing. When those engineers would not had to deal with very challinging design constraints (the unit I've seen needs to be compact like a car stereo and perform like higher end), they could turn out some amazing devices I think. Hat of for Paul on this vid, very respectful and objective.

[finscreenname]

It's like asking one of the Ford kids to talk good about Chevy.

[andysmith-neqs]

I ve had a lot of high end speakers, currently a set of full Volti modded Klipschorns, ATC SCM 40 A s and anancient set of B&O MS 150 s which have : big dead wooden cabinets , moulded resin front baffle, “phase correct” design, they are from the 80 s and are amazing loudspeakers . Great bass, imaging and unfatiguing detailed mid range . Make me smile when they re doing their thing 😎

[ThinkingBetter]

I worked in the B&O R&D department ages ago and I have some sincere respect for this brand. They created the icePower technology that PS Audio is using btw. It later became an independent company. I still have their Beolab 1 prototypes from ages ago with first gen icePower in them and they work perfectly 25 years later as my home theatre stereo speakers. As member of their listening test team I even had to undergo regular hearing tests by a professional audiologist and it was quite a rigorous listening test process with radar plots capturing different metrics of the audio qualities. Is it best brand in audiophile performance? Perhaps not, but possibly best in esthetics and audio fidelity as a combination. Some of their products are highly innovative such as Beolab 90, but also very expensive.

[srenschjdt]

comming from Denmark im proud every time i hear bang and olufsen

[Gary_Hun]

Totally dig the flashing light, so post apocalyptic science fiction-y...

[jamesplotkin]

That blinking light would drive me bananas. Room full of engineers who can't boil an egg ;-)

[rainiergruber]

Paul, please fix the light bulb in the back, it drives me mad. 🙂

[scrambaba]

This is called damning with faint praise…

[daysofgrace]

They have good sound, I used to go the B&O shop and listen to some of their stuff. The sales team knew I couldn't afford their stuff being a young professional but were happy to chat about music/HiFi. The sales team were passionate about music & HiFi...

[analogkid]

I still have my B & O turntable from the 80s. Still use it.

[overkillaudioinc]

That flashing Flourescent light in the background LOL made me laugh!

[sakaspuds]

I have a stereo pair of Beosound Balance and i absolutly love them, if you can get a chance to listen to them please do, you'll love the sound

[stevechapman]

I used to sell B&O gear in the 70s and 80s. Its expensive for the sound quality which can be obtained for much less expense but its undeniably stylish. they did invent the "Icepower" power amplifier module which many manufactures use, including Bel Canto. I have a pair of their power amps and they are fantastic. Their linear tracking turtntable was a rather special too.

[bentonpix]

It's good they added the &, otherwise they would really stink.

[AmericanAudiophile]

Must be a slow day for Paul if he's commenting on emails about someone else's products. 😆