Monday, July 16th 2007
Bang & Olufsen Introduce £400 4GB MP3 Player
Bang & Olufsen has announced the 'Beosound 6', a 4GB flash player which will retail at £400.
This somewhat expensive gadget comes with a £20 worth leather case and pair of £90 worth B&O A8 earphones meaning it will cost you about £400 or almost 700euros.
Make no mistake, if this gadget had something more to offer than just MP3 playback i would give it a go but it doesnt..No Video , No FM...Just MP3 playback.
The Lcd screen is also a rather small 1.8 incher and the controls are circa 2005...For 700euros you could get the PS3 and have money to spare...
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Bang & Olufsen
This somewhat expensive gadget comes with a £20 worth leather case and pair of £90 worth B&O A8 earphones meaning it will cost you about £400 or almost 700euros.
Make no mistake, if this gadget had something more to offer than just MP3 playback i would give it a go but it doesnt..No Video , No FM...Just MP3 playback.
The Lcd screen is also a rather small 1.8 incher and the controls are circa 2005...For 700euros you could get the PS3 and have money to spare...
69 Comments on Bang & Olufsen Introduce £400 4GB MP3 Player
My stupid practice amp is evil. (Fender 15g)
I´ll agree - its a lot of money for a 4 GB MP3 player.....
BUT...it could be interesting to se a review...
Oh, and McIntosh, FTW!!!!
( it should fit good in the pocket...after buying it, there should be plenty of free space in the pocket :ohwell:)
Bang & Olufsen is probably the single largest ultra high quality company in the world.
My uncle has their audio equipment throughout his home. To give you an idea of the cost just under $65,000 for a subwoofer for his theater.
Is the price inflated for the name- you bet it is!
Is the price worth the quality- if you want a piece of the best there is than yes because no matter which company that high up you go with you will pay an inflated price for the name and top notch quality not many can match.
Think about it- I can compare it to cars here quickly-
Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Same car as the
Ferrari "Forget the name*
Either way they are the "SAME" car, I cannot stress this enough. By ALL mechanical reasons, including the body material. Interior is "SLIGHTLY" different.
Anyways to get to the point-
Z06 - $70,000
Ferrari- $120,000
$50,000 in interior thats "slightly" different? Paying for the name.
Now I would bet to wager this mp3 does some really nice and clean decompression of the mp3s, probably has audio processing you will not find anywhere else, and probably has a Class A or maybe A/B amplifier in it which in most cases of portable music players you are not going to find anything at all near that. Probably rates somewhere around .01% or lower THD, in most cases of portable music you are looking at 1% or more.
Anyways I could go into tech specs all day but we aren't here for that.
When this players gets released and I get a chance to take a look at one, I will probably actually consider buying this one myself. I have been waiting for a high quality player again. I would like to have one to plugin to my deck in my car so I don't have to flop cd's around.
*Yes my deck plays mp3s but the quality of the decompression is well questionable and I am an audiophile and I can hear the difference severely*
If you didn't download your mp3's and ripped them yourself slowly and properly using a very high quality drive. You can rip at a really high quality and get no artifacts.
Anyways McIntosh is another elite company. I am saving to replace my amplifiers in my car with their amps. $4000 for a 400 watt 4 channel :respect: And worse yet I need 2 of those and a sub amp....
No comment is required...
Ferrari did the chassis design for the Z06, and GM did the engine. The deal was Ferrari got to release and model. Same motor, same chassis, same suspension.
Ohh ya needless to say same 1/4 mile, same skid pad, same top speed, same hp rating, same braking distance... Need I go into more?
They are all in all the same car.
They use Different Engines, Different breaking system, Different construction materials...
Bottom line Ferrari is Ferrari and Corvette is Corvette.
roflmao
award for largest waste of money :p
oh and as for the B&O super lux sub $65K would buy a better or almost identical at least sub if you BUILD YOUR OWN
Everything about them is the SAME. I'll try to get the model again so you can see and look more like you try to talk about things you are clueless about.
Anyways now you have your info. I'll drop it, I'm obviously arguing with a
"Know it all" :slap:
Now I remember why I stopped bothering to post on this forum.
And I'm sorry the price difference is a little more than that also.
and he is correct the 0'7 Z06 corvette can keep up with most ferarri's out there (other than enzo i believe there are none in fact that outperform it)
as for the sub part ITS AN ALGORITHM THAT IS USED TO achieve the level of sound talked about and there are MILLIONS of speaker building books that give you a similar algo which for $5 and about $5000 in parts gives you very SIMILAR sound quality
And like I said the interior is slightly different, there are small differences, Ferrari cannot build a car that doesn't meet Ferrari buyers requirements, but its not worth the price difference, you are paying for the name. It was a deal that gave Ferrari a base model road/track car to sell to its market, and gave Chevrolet a Corvette that is one sick monster.
The 575 has a pushrod 500bhp 6 liter V8, intake, bore, stroke, heads, cam lift/duration is all the same between the two cars, the gearing is the same and the weight is literally like 16lbs different. They are by all means to a driver and mechanic the same car. Yes there are differences that make the Ferrari a little nicer and a little more race style feeling, but nothing that sets it apart by the incredible cost difference. A lot of what you pay for there is the name. And real quick in case you think wait the Ferrari is hand build, so is the Z06.
Similar is possible, I do speaker building, I am also going to start school for sound engineering.
But just like anything else is that sound, that last inch of perfection that cannot be done. And the subwoofer *speaker itself* they do not pay 3rd party companies to build their speakers, thats another problem with the DIY project. Yes you can do some nice stuff yourself if you have the patience and grab a book or directions. But you cannot compete with the audiophile against the best the world has to offer. *granted they have the money and are willing to pay it*
Link ? Source ? Anything ?
Ferrari 575 Maranello
Make and Model: Ferrari 575 M Maranello
Year: 2002
Engine Type: 5.75 liter V-12
Torque: 434lb-ft@5250rpm
Acceleration 0-60: 4.25 s
Suspension: 4-wheel independant
Wheel Base: 98.43 inches
List Price: $221,870
Horsepower: 515bhp@7250rpm
Top Speed: 202 mph
Brakes: Wheel vent. disc
Transmission: 6-speed Manual
Weight: 3815 lbs
Corvette Z06 2007
Make: Chevrolet
Model: Corvette
Style: Z06
Base Price: $69,000
Price as Tested: N/A
Drive Type: Rear-wheel drive
Transmission Type: Six-speed manual
Displacement (liters): 7.0
Engine Type: V8
Horsepower (hp @ rpm): 505@6300
Torque (ft-lbs @ rpm): 470@4800
Braking System: Front/rear power-assisted disc
They Havent got a SINGLE part in common...Not even in specs....Lets drop it because just equalizing a car like the Z06 with a Ferrari is dumb.
[INDENT]-buzz lightyear[/INDENT]
you dont honestly think...roflmao the ferari 575 mentioned above HAS A 5.7L V12 the vette a 7.0L V8. not to mention the Z06 is most often placed againts the F430 not the maranello DUH.
read up b4 you post its getting sad
oh and for zek