Bang and Olufsen

[User482]

There's an awful lot of inverted snobbery about B&O i.e. the bloke propping up the snug bar who met a bloke once who was into hifi will tell you they are crap. They may well be in terms of that last 0.5% of audio performance but basically they sound pretty damn good and look absolutely gorgeous. It's just a question of whether or not you want your technology to look good and if you are prepared to pay for it.

It's not crap, it's just that you can get better sounding equipment at the same price, or similar sounding equipment for less. In any case, there's a lot of "emperor's new clothes" with hifi - my 30 year old record deck sounds considerably better than my modern (and expensive) CD player!

 

[Lardyboy]

B&O and Bose. Both style over substance.

And User482 is right, vinyl still sounds better with a half decent turntable!

 

[simoncc]

'Hi-Fi' isn't as popular as it once was is it? Most of the young men who would once have gone on about their amplifiers and tweeters now seem to be experts on the latest mobile phone, ipod or flat TV.

 

[palinurus]

For at se denne side skal du have Flash Player version 9

Aww. I bet it was really good too.

 

[fossyant]

It would be lost on me - crap hearing..... and my £600 JVC separates from 22 years ago is still going strong !!!

 

[yello]

Can't get PP9s in France (not that I've found at least) so my Roberts is gathering dust.

 

[Mr Pig]

'Hi-Fi' isn't as popular as it once was is it?

Having a good hi-fi in the seventies and eighties was quite fashionable, lots of people weren't genuinely interested in the music but the sales drove development. Lots of good kit around back then.

It's sad but it seems that every new format is worse than the last one, and no one cares.

 

[sloe]

B&Q in Aberdeen's got wee birds flying around inside it. Think they were sparrows but the acoustics were atrocious so not sure. So I'll stick with Gale and Marantz.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

well i have a lowly acoustic solutions amp which i wirelessly send music too from my laptop. i don't give a flying fig about whether mp3/aac or whatever is not quite as perfect as cd/valve amp quality either. it works for me.

i have a mate that has a valve amp set up. i'm sure it sounds good, but i couldn't say for sure it was better than what i have here.

it's what the hifi serves up that matters. take that on a b&o will still sound like commercial shite, sonic youth on a tin tranny is still great music.

oh, and my separates sony cd player went in the cellar, no longer needed. the record deck still has several hundred lps which need digitizing…

 

[yenrod]

Anyone interested in the latest offering? About £3,500 Time for a new PP9 for the Roberts radio

I'll have too.......

B)

 

[Rob S]

I seem to recall that B & O's £400 4GB mp3 was a tarted up version of my much loved Samsung Z5 (£150 when it first came out) an even bigger con than the Leica version of my Panasonic LX3 camera!

 

[Lardyboy]

oh, and my separates sony cd player went in the cellar, no longer needed. the record deck still has several hundred lps which need digitizing…

You Philistine alec! :?:

 

[alecstilleyedye]

You Philistine alec!

has itunes not reached wales yet? :?:

 

[Lardyboy]

has itunes not reached wales yet? :?:

What is this "itunes" you write of?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

it's what a yorkshire chemist will reply when asked if they have any over the counter treatment for a blocked nose…:?: