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Can the Cult of Bang and Olufsen Last? (2011)

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• rightbyte 6y ago
  I've seen laptops with Bang & Olufsen stickers for the sound so I guess, no, the cult didn't last. The company is milking its former reputation. The stickers are quite silly since B&O was mostly famous for their good furniture design, not the electronics.
  • tinus_hn 6y ago
    And the ‘drivers’ for that hardware stink, 500 Mb bloatware balloons that include Windows 3 style installers and Windows ME style autoloading overlay bars programmed in .NET I hope the hardware is nice because the software sucks.
• ceocoder 6y ago
  B&O was always one of those things that I felt like owning but had no reason (or means) to own, similar to a Leica M{X} camera - it just looks so good, and most pictures I’ve seen taken with Leica look phenomenal, and there is a part of you (or just me I guess) that makes me think that the second I have a Leica M10 with a nice Summicron I’ll become an instantly better photographer. Thankfully rational part of me knows that my A7III is a very capable camera and I just need to become a better photographer - and Amazon has a good return policy for wine fueled purchases :). I think B&O played on that same psyche - make something that looks cool and make it expensive enough to seem like it is within reach but not quite. Where they fell short/miscalculated was miniaturization of audio gear and potentially proliferation of audio gear review sites like headroom etc.