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B&O Beosound Moment merged into HP all-in-one PC: HP Envy 27 AIO

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TWG Posted: Wed, Oct 12 2016 8:08 AM

Have a look:

 

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/12/hp-envy-13-spectre-x360-2016/#gallery=449268&slide=4229639&index=0

 

Guess it works better than the original Moment ;-)

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TWG:

Have a look:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/12/hp-envy-13-spectre-x360-2016/#gallery=449268&slide=4229639&index=0

Guess it works better than the original Moment ;-)

What what what!!!! Omg ;-))))
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Now that's a fancy design for an all-in-one!!!

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Paul W replied on Wed, Oct 12 2016 12:27 PM

But it's still a damn Windows thing guys. So not cool.

B&O with HP proved to be really bad for me last night. I was talking to a young friend at the gym last night. He was 19 and was wanting a Bluetooth speaker system to go with his new iPhone 7+. Anyway i told him to go for a A1 by B&O. He said that he'd never heard of B&O. 

I told him that it was BANG&OLUFSEN. He words were "No way". My Papa has a HP laptop with those speakers in and it sounds awful".

There was no way that I could convince him otherwise. It stands to reason that if you are putting your brand anywhere, it has to be class winning and in this case, it simply is not. My MacBook is super for a computer speaker system - they should have got it to that level at least!

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Jeff replied on Wed, Oct 12 2016 3:07 PM

I think you've found your soul mate there Paul, shallow, narrow minded, judgmental, and hipster enough to judge an entire brand on the basis of one quick experience while not taking time to look further. You also get to slag B&O and Microsoft in the same post, with an implicit Apple kudos thrown in. And here I thought you were unsubtle!

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Sal replied on Wed, Oct 12 2016 3:31 PM

My employer just upgraded my previous "cinderblock" PC laptop to a new svelte HP laptop which, to be honest is lighter and more convenient for me to lug around than my iPad Pro. (First world problems).

That being said, the new laptop has a Bang & Olufsen Sound Control Panel. 

For laptop speakers, I was impressed with the clarity and volume I heard, even when it was docked at my desk. Below are screenshots of the actual "HP Bang & Olufsen Audio" Control panel at the default settings in case anyone is interested what it entailed. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jeff replied on Wed, Oct 12 2016 3:56 PM

Those controls actually look useful Sal, as opposed to the limited ones on my laptop. Especially the dialog enhancer slider, too often laptop speakers are dreadful at dialog if there's anything else being played, as in a movie or video clip. Laptops will never be wonderful audio wise, just too many compromises in speaker size and enclosure volume. Of course, now that I've said that I expect the usual suspects to show up and rave that well, on Apple laptops all the rules of physics have been suspended by Saint Jobs.

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benjnz replied on Wed, Oct 12 2016 9:24 PM

Yeah I have a work lappy with the same thing, like the way the control panel options work well with my H8's, although not sure they achieve anything through the loudspeakers in the lappy.

That desktop is rather nice though, and to Paul's point am sure I'd shoehorn MacOsX onto it Smile and ditch windoze 10.

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I've got Windows 10 on a Alienware Dell computer, that drives an Occulus Rift VR headset. We had to get a Windows PC as Occulus don't support Apple because they simply don't believe their machines are up to it!

Has worked very well so far, for somebody that's used Apple Macs for 10 years or so.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11159700/oculus-rift-mac-support-apple

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Jeff replied on Thu, Oct 13 2016 12:07 AM

Is the Oculus Rift associated with simulations for your flying or for games? Very envious, I've yet to even see one. And they're right, it's all PCs that have all the high end graphics cards and games. When I worked in simulation one of the best things we saw happen was PCs overtake the dedicated graphics computers from the likes of Evans & Sutherland and especially Silicon Graphics. Better, faster, cheaper. Especially SGI, man, that company took advantage of every customer they had, they delivered known faulty hardware to us, late, and at full price. It crapped out a couple of months after we got it, putting our project seriously behind schedule. When we opened it up there were parts labeled "Failed QC: Do Not Use." 

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TWG:

Have a look:

 

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/12/hp-envy-13-spectre-x360-2016/#gallery=449268&slide=4229639&index=0

 

Guess it works better than the original Moment ;-)

Why would you compare these two?

One is a computer - the other a music system.

MM

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ssbrig replied on Thu, Oct 13 2016 4:09 PM

the B&O scroll wheel you see on the HP Envy base is only for volume control - the HP Envy does not contain a  'Moment-like' functionality.   

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TWG replied on Fri, Oct 14 2016 10:42 AM

ssbrig:

the B&O scroll wheel you see on the HP Envy base is only for volume control - the HP Envy does not contain a  'Moment-like' functionality.   



Which I guess is a good thing ;) I tested the Moment and it is overpriced garbage controlled by a super cheap chinese android tablet awfully implented in an aluminium block. Nothing I want to compare to other real B&O audio systems.


@MM: The Moment is a simple computer system, too. It just has better audio outputs than the PC and is remote controllable. :)

 

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