Bang & Olufsen

I think my grandmother went over the top on this one. She heard I wanted a MP3 player and after going to the apple store and seeing that the iPods looked like toys, proceeded to go and order this:

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 6

The problem is, it's non-upgradeable and it's strictly a music player (which is fine, i don't have a digicam or facebook)... but her reply was it's built like a brick ****house. (She has one.) I personally despise MP3s (self-admitted vinyl lover)... what do I do?

 

well, accept it. used it. thank her. sell it after a few months ;-)

 

lolwut? (10char)

 

I despise MP3's (To the point I still have a big turntable), but I wanted an MP3 player so I can carry my favorite songs around when I work out, or I need something to listen to while reading, etc. I guess it's a tradeoff, but my grandma is very much into quality and doesn't like that the apple is made of thin plastic, whereas the BeoSound is stainless... (it's a quirk)

Jason

 

Does this B&O player support any format besides MP3? FLAC, perhaps? I know the iPod reads 6 or 7 different formats, including Apple's own proprietary lossless format.

Worst case, you can just rip all your stuff to ultra-high quality MP3s, like 320 bitrate or higher, or perhaps VBR.

 

MP3's only. I'm more wishing that she took the $$ and rather than buy an ipod on steroids, to put the money into a MoogerFooger pedal.

 

It supports mp3, ogg and wma, this not supporting flac and only 4 gigs blows chunks tho.
It does look kinda cool, I agree with your grandma it looks real solid and better than the ipod crap everyone has now.
B&O is expensive you pay for design but unlike apple also for quality
I'm sure you'll be the only one to own this player in your area withing let's say a 1000 mile radius lol

 

Well I don't use flac much because it doesn't like to play nice on my machine. As for B&O's quality, it's tuned more towards the full range of sound than it is towards slicing out the lows and highs. Where I used to work I had a little B&O sound system with 5 little speakers and everything was made to look like it was one big speaker (the cd player was hidden in the back), and while everyone laughed because it was $1,400 vs. the normal BOSE wave radio... the sound it put out wasn't just all mids. You could get nuances you didn't know existed in the CDs you had. (I kinda wish that player had an SACD option, but I digress.) Back to the issue at hand, I'm not really one to put every piece of music I own onto this machine, I would probably use it more for the few albums and concerts I have that I deem so awesome that they deserve to travel with me everywhere and be availabe on demand. I also keep my mp3's at 320kbps, but I would love to know if this thing can handle SD cards or other forms of memory so that you can expand it to 8GB, 16GB, and so forth.

As for the quality, it's built like a cross between a iPod and the poor toyota hilux top gear tried to demolish. As for 1,000 mile radius, my grandma has one, and my ex has one, and they're 8 miles and 240 miles away respectively.

 

i would sell the out of that thing so fast and get a touch. or an iphone. unless you really dont wanna hurt her feelings.

 

Sent inquiry to them, will await response.

 

Give it to me. Upon reciept I'll send you my iPod Touch.

 

4GB is the limit, with no plans of further upsizing... B&O doesn't see a need to carry EVERY song witha person.