Beolab 50 reactions...

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Yesterday I had workers in the house all day working around my Beolab 50's which I have now had for 5 years. 'Not that I expect it but it did occur to me how no comments were made regarding them? In fact, on reflection, in those 5 years no-one has ever made any comments about them! No-one ever! Including visitors that stay. That I do find odd? It's as if they see these everyday, or they are so boring they do not register? My previous Beolab 5 and even my Pentas were always a conversation point with visitors? So am I seeing a new B&O first..... A 48,000 GBP speaker that is so boring no-one even sees it? I don't care at all but it does seem very odd?
I would be all over them :-)

Location: Netherlands

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I think its call "first-world problems". Well where I live -  a "good" working class wage is about £12-15/day. A middle class professional wage would be less than £50/day that and a decent 3-bedroom house would be the price of a single BL90. I think many of us here look at superyachts or million-dollar cars as excessive but when your whole household income is less than £30/day, I know that the builders that I employed to renovate my home recently see the BL90s in exactly the same light as this and cannot fathom it? I am grateful and blessed.
They probably think, that they are ridiculously expensive….and then choose simply to ignore them. Did anyone of these visitors/workers ever ‘saw’ them in action? MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Hi, I have the same experience. I have had my BL50 in 4 years and no comments from anyone. I have now changed my BL 50 to BL 28 and get alot more comments on these speakers together with my Teatre 77-inch and BL 8 as surround speakers.
I guess BL50 just don't have the visual impact that other B&O products have? Millemissen... Only 2 visitors have heard them. Neither made any comment! Nothing! So I can safely say no-one has been impressed by them? When I had my Pentas absolutely everyone was raving and jeolous as. I think there is an arguement for a sound that exceeds the speaker's appearance? BL6000 do this. I think the Pentas did too? The BL50's? Perhaps not? But notwithstanding the audio experience, people just don't "see" them. They just see "a pair of speakers?" I can get the Beolab 28 situation.... They are for sure more interesting? I even considered an exchange. But there is a sound quality penalty too much for me.

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