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Jeff: symmes: How did they get DJ Khaled? Don't like it? Who knows or cares, if it sells stuff? I have to say I don't like the colors, kind of garish, but I think they will appeal to a certain market segment. The colors and branding are only a bother to me if they stop making the traditional colors I like, otherwise if it can drag a few more people, and people of a different market segment, into the brand all the better. B&O is making a lot of changes, they have to change if they are to survive, and expanding the market is desperately needed. To date, most Play customers I think have been B&O devotees, I don't think they pulled in as many new ears as they'd have expected or liked. Face it, branding with "cool" hiphop/DJ type artists is the rage today, and it obviously must work. We will see how B&O does with it, but without a lot of stuff like this, we will not be seeing new products and things we want. It's a tough market, you have to take business where you can get it.
symmes: How did they get DJ Khaled? Don't like it? Who knows or cares, if it sells stuff?
How did they get DJ Khaled? Don't like it? Who knows or cares, if it sells stuff?
I have to say I don't like the colors, kind of garish, but I think they will appeal to a certain market segment. The colors and branding are only a bother to me if they stop making the traditional colors I like, otherwise if it can drag a few more people, and people of a different market segment, into the brand all the better. B&O is making a lot of changes, they have to change if they are to survive, and expanding the market is desperately needed. To date, most Play customers I think have been B&O devotees, I don't think they pulled in as many new ears as they'd have expected or liked.
Face it, branding with "cool" hiphop/DJ type artists is the rage today, and it obviously must work. We will see how B&O does with it, but without a lot of stuff like this, we will not be seeing new products and things we want. It's a tough market, you have to take business where you can get it.
I don't disagree about needing new customers but branding your best headphones like this mean they are unlikely to be taken seriously by anyone in the market for good, "normal" 'phones in the same way that a potential Sennheiser 650 buyer wouldn't be seen dead considering Beats.
You can only hope this years fashionistas buy enough to offset the image damage it will do to the H6 overall in the broader market.
Ban boring signatures!
Struer has officially jumped the shark.
I will stamp out my pipe, remove my slippers, and lay myself down to die.
Will it really hurt traditional sales? I'm not sure it will, but time will tell I guess. And if it loses X traditional types, and gets nX new buyers...
I just wonder if the types who follow this DJ will be disappointed in the fact that the H6 is accurate and not an exaggerated boom boom set of cans.Now if they changed the sonics to tailor the cans to this market that would really disappoint me.
I read some interesting speculation about Apple and Dr. Dre...that they are going to use the Lightning connector to connect directly to headphones marked by Dre, and eliminate the standard headphone mini-jack, which would require an adapter to use anything but their cans. A move by Apple, not an unexpected one given their history, to try and slice out a part of the market and make it Apple only, cut out other companies. Similar to how they stomped on existing products when they went to the Lightning connector in the first place. This is completely in line with what I've seen of Apples playbook, whether this is a bridge too far is open to question, time will tell I guess, like for B&O.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Food without seasoning is "accurate", but pretty bland.
Most people will only use these for listening to Spotify/Itunes etc, not studio master recordings so a little extra bass would help to be honest. My H6's are very good, but i prefer the sound of my various friends headphones, probably because they do have more of a bass influence. If thats the customer taste, then who is the chef to tell them what to eat?
Just an opinion, and i hope it works out for them like it has for Bose and Beats. $4 Billion
Beosound Stage, Beovision 8-40, Beolit 20, Beosound Explore.
ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Struer has officially jumped the shark. I will stamp out my pipe, remove my slippers, and lay myself down to die.
It must be a big shark. I found what is claimed to be the first online commercial for DJ,
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh351JCmU2xfy2RIHF
linder: ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Struer has officially jumped the shark. I will stamp out my pipe, remove my slippers, and lay myself down to die. It must be a big shark. I found what is claimed to be the first online commercial for DJ, http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh351JCmU2xfy2RIHF
HUGE, I tell 'ya!
Just look at that site!
So, these are wireless headphones????????
we tend to forget there is more to design than designing.
Still nothing about that cooperation on the B&O Play facebook site.
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
vikinger: linder: ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Struer has officially jumped the shark. I will stamp out my pipe, remove my slippers, and lay myself down to die. It must be a big shark. I found what is claimed to be the first online commercial for DJ, http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh351JCmU2xfy2RIHF So, these are wireless headphones????????
Horrendous!
He wears them to not hear his music..
MediaBobNY: He wears them to not hear his music..
Puncher: MediaBobNY: He wears them to not hear his music..
I finally went and looked at the vid, no wires! Funny!
I guess I'm just not hip, as I don't grok either the music or the whole scene these guys, but then again I'm old and square (I'm so square I still say square!).
Never ever, will I do that, I will stay with my Sennheisers and my vintage. But my son (22 years old), latest buy in headphones was a pair of expensive Beats, a lot of bass and the rest OK but no more. He will line up for the "We The Best" phones.
And its a good way for B&O to get into the younger generation market. The problem will be that B&O dont make boom-boom items but quality sound. The music from Ipods and MP3 players is not, and the Beat like headphones compensate for that with the extra boom-boom.
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
Millemissen: Still nothing about that cooperation on the B&O Play facebook site. MM
It is in Facebook but I really had to look
Thanks - I not a facebook-digger
By then already 64 likes.
Eh - just saw the date. It's from the 29th April.
By the way - the Doobie Brothers are 'rocking my (natural leather) BeoPlay H6' right now
I have a few thoughts. I am not so old that I do not understand what B&O is trying to do but I really do find it an odd marketing scheme. Can you imagine Tue introducing this product and DJ Khled to the usual B&O crowd at the newer store in New York City.? Maybe they will play DJ's newest single..
Millemissen: Thanks - I not a facebook-digger By then already 64 likes. Eh - just saw the date. It's from the 29th April. MM
You have to look in Beoplay on FB. It shows it added yesterday. I grabbed the wrong link. Sorry for the wrong link but I was watching DJ's new vid. Beoplay is calling this a new collab. This is huge!
BeoNut since '75
@elephant. I was at Tullamarine Airport 2 weeks ago and saw some H6 on a guy. But first and only time ever seen B&O in public.
elephant the ratio on my London commute is about the same or slightly higher, most seem to wear their respective generic ear buds (next being sennheiser) with can wearers being mainly Beats, Sony, and AKG. Last year for some reason I did see more B&W & Harmon Kardon wearers.
On my travels I have seen one person with H6's on but more wearing A8's. I rarely use my H6's out of the house as they do not offer sound cancelling which I need to counter the rattling trains and I have also been garrotted once two many times by someone exiting the train carriage quickly and catching my headphone cable.
I normally use my Zik's outside the home due to their practicality but over the past two years have only seen 2 others wear them so at this higher price bracket maybe the usage differs?
OR I just don't get driven around in a Maybach from pool house to pool house !
MM goooood to hear your H6's play some good vibes.
It's Hip to be Square
Just visited the local Apple Store for a long cable for the iPad to Beolit as the airplay has never happened. The headphone they stock , such Dre are in the H6 level of price . I'm waiting for the pair of limited edition i3s Beocare are sending us to compensate for missing the recent £170 discount and the free Smart TV upgrade we missed on the V1 !
Beo Century ,Beoplay V1, Beocenter 6, Ex-Beolit 12, Beotime , A8. Beolit 15 , Form 2i , Beolab 2000, Beoplay A3.Beosound 1
Barry Santini:You can't interpret these sale prices as a tacit admission that Tue and his management team have screwed up on either pricing, production quantities or both, IMHO.
Were you being ironic?
This H6 Edition does not seem to play a big role for B&O - no official announcement and only a 'well buried away' entry on the B&O Play Facebook site....
....and we are already on page 5 with our pros and cons.
I wonder how many of these were produced/sold.
I see some Form 2s being sent as an apology for B&O and their recent Beolit 12 discounting !
Flappo: Amazed the rappers and their ilk aren't lining up outside the bno stores for some delightfully subtle gold coloured tv's and speakers , who on earth would make something as crass and tasteless as that though ??
Amazed the rappers and their ilk aren't lining up outside the bno stores for some delightfully subtle gold coloured tv's and speakers , who on earth would make something as crass and tasteless as that though ??
Just think , it could have been Paul McCartney again! What a coup that was....
Sir Paul already endorses JBL speakers/headphones.
Check these out by Oppo of all companies. And they are their first attempt Gulp
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/hi-fi-and-audio/headphones/oppo-pm-1-1242373/review
Listening to Qobuz with my H6's thinking about these and Christmas!
MediaBobNY: Sir Paul already endorses JBL speakers/headphones.
He's endorsed B&O too ...http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1216304/bang---olufsen-recruits-sir-paul-mccartney-relaunch
Chris Townsend: Check these out by Oppo of all companies. And they are their first attempt Gulp http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/hi-fi-and-audio/headphones/oppo-pm-1-1242373/review Listening to Qobuz with my H6's thinking about these and Christmas!
These cans are playing in another league - best tell Santa to bring the headphone amp as well 🎅