bang & olufsen beosound 2 or 6 impressions?

i think that's the one based on a samsung pmp.

It's based off the samsung z5 which uses the stmp 3650 like the one in the trekstor, but no one is really sure if the beosound 6 improves on the inside. For all we know there could be another dac in there or a superior internal amp.

about a year ago, a long and spiteful thread broke out because someone dared to say he liked the sound. everyone charcoaled the poor lout and i have not seen the thread since. b and o are another company whom headfi faithful love to hate it seems.

Not just headfi but audiophiles in general. B&O is almost the high end equivalent of bose according to many people. Which is funny because their ICEpower amp modules are incredibly nice for a very low price, which seems to be the exact opposite of the bose concept. But a company like Jeff rowland Design can take a $250 ICE module and stick it in a fancy chassis and sell it for almost $5k. And the high end community has nothing but respect for them.

that is justice for you...

B&O is a funny mix. They have over the years made a number of groundshaking breakthroughs technollegy wise but at the same time the way they package and sell their end user products is aimed more at the life style segment where packaging, design and name means more than contents so their products are never going to be bang for bucks products.

I guess that not many on this forum will have heard it. Also B&O stuff normally only sells from B&O concept stores so not too many of them around

I have actually heard the beosound 2 about the time it came out as one of my friends bought it together with the beosound 8 headphones. I can't remember what it sounded like but can remember that at the time I was impressed with the styling and build but would never pay that much for what it performed.

The next 2 days I'm actually working in a city with a B&O concept centre so I might see if I can to it and try the 6 after work before they close.

Hi,

- Beosound 6 is "just" a rebadged Samsung MP3-Player with some modifications (stainless stell frame, software etc.).

- Beosound 2 is a pure B&O product.
I love the A8 (this is what the headphones are called) headphones because they showed me for the 1st time that the iPods sounds bad!
On my old Vaio pocket the B&O A8 headphones where a dream for my ears. Comfortable and good sounding!

I bought the Beosound 2 ca. 2 years ago as there where no attractive players on the market and I didn't want an iPod.
Actually I use a Sony S638 because of the higher capacity.

When you touch the Beosound 2 there's NO dap that is comparable: The stainless steel is amazing and it feels like it was made out of one solid piece :-)
The BS 2 has NO display and so it was a wise decision by B&O not to support more than 2GB of memory via SD cards.
When the BS 2 was introduced the world shouted at B&O: "How can they produce a MP3 player without a display!?"
A few years later Apple introduced an iPod without a display (the iPod shuffle) and the world shouted: "Wow, great!"

I personaly can NOT understand that because the iPod shuffle is a piece of crap in terms of build- and soundquality!

You can control the Beosound 2 blind without having to look at it as soon as you get used to their control layout.

The only thing i REALY dislike is the popping noise when you switch the Beosound 2 on. I can't understand this as it is not a 20 Euro cheapo device.

You can use B&O own software called "Beoplayer" to copy music to your Beosound 2 or just copy music to a SD card.

On the Mac it is much easier to drag& drop. There was an old plugin vor itunes but it didn't work for me. It was realy frustrating so I decided just to copy my music to a SD card.

The dockingstation is nice and - like the MP3 player itself - very well build.
It has a decent glowing ring which changes its color depending of what happens (charging, data transfer etc.).
It is magnetic and has some kind of hook to secure the player.
Easy and well made.

You can operate the player without having to look at it and even through a trousers or a shirt as the physical buttons are big and comfortalbe enough.

There's a small eyelet hidden in the player if you want to use it with a lanyard or s.th. like this.

Sound quality is simply great. In my opinion it is as good as a current Sony A829, 638 etc.

There's NO Equaliser or soundeffects because it's B&O: Puristic, only the basic things you need.

You can select repeat or shuffle mode via key combinations.

I liked those, too. Fantastic build quality, in particular when compared to the cheap plastic most earphones are made of. All those joints, and they never got loose.

I dare say this was less due to wisdom, and rather a result of the standard SD specifications at that time setting the max at 2GB - an excessive amount of storage in an age where 512MB-cards were still very very expensive.

Well, that's the Apple fandom... Though, I think the world's criticism of the BS2 was more like: "How can they produce such an expensive MP3 player without even a display?" The Shuffle was cheap, at least. I felt omitting a display was a bad idea in both cases, but it was more excusable for the BS2, as it was not originally intended to hold much more music than a single CD anyway (it came with a 128MB card).