Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair


Review of luxury speakers Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 90

bang & olufsen beolab 90

Imagine a speaker so intellectually conceptualized, exquisitely designed, and so finely tuned that it can deliver an exceptional audio experience in any environment. This is the new acoustic speaker BeoLab 90 from Bang & Olufsen. It will change the future of sound.

 

 

paulherry

They would look right at home in a large ultra modern home along with unual sculptures and paintingsI'm curious how they sound. I agree with kingsluey lol!

@roxy54 i’ve always respected B&Os ability to produce works of art that play music.  When we were a B&O dealer way back when, we unapologetically made the customer aware that a good potion of their investment was in the esthetics of the product.  This aligned with a buyers taste and priorities, or it didn’t.   I’m sure the Beolab 90s are no exception.  
If the speakers are/were a commercial success, that answers a few questions about their value proposition.

This also brings up the classic "Chicken and Egg" question.

Did the industrial designers develop a piece of art, present it to the engineers and say: "Here, make it play music"? Or, did the engineers develop their idea of the "ultimate B&O speaker", hand the design off the the industrial designers and say: "Okay, do your thing. Just don’t mess up the sound"?
I’m thinking the latter. The appearance of the speaker is most likely driven by the acoustical objectives of the speaker.  It "looks like it looks" from a functional perspective -- the packaging dictates its "unusual" appearance.