The point is that it does not sit on its own.
Bang & Olufsen is bought with the eyes as much as the ears. The failure mode is predictable: a beautiful television and a pair of Beolabs living in their own world, on their own remote.
- Televisions and speakers brought into Control4 or KNX as proper sources.
- Motorised covers, stands and speaker positions on scenes rather than remotes.
- Room compensation set for the actual position, not the showroom one.
- One handset, or better, one keypad, for the whole room.
Done properly, a room with a Beovision in it works like every other room in the house.
Related work.
A hundred years of not following anyone.
Bang & Olufsen was founded in Struer, Denmark in 1925 and has spent a century treating audio equipment as furniture and as engineering at the same time. Aluminium, oak and glass are used as materials rather than finishes, and the industrial design has been genuinely influential for most of that time.
The engineering is better than the brand is given credit for. Beolab speakers are active, with amplification and DSP built in, room compensation, and bass linearisation that lets a small cabinet behave. The company also now designs for longevity, with modular repairs and upgrades rather than replacement.
What we specify.
Chosen where the equipment is part of the interior. Where performance per pound is the brief, we say so and specify differently.
How we advise on it.
This is the one brand on the page where we start by asking what the room is for, because the honest answer changes the recommendation completely.
Is the object part of the room?
If the client wants a beautiful piece of equipment in a designed interior, B&O is very hard to beat and the money is well spent. If the equipment should be invisible, architectural speakers cost less and perform better.
How much integration is wanted
A single Beosound in a kitchen needs nothing from us. A Beovision, motorised covers and three pairs of Beolabs across a house needs proper integration work, and that is where our time goes.
Performance per pound
For a dedicated listening room or a cinema, the same budget spent on other brands will measure better. We will tell you that plainly, and then respect the decision either way.
Indicative only. A design visit produces a fixed price.
The systems Bang & Olufsen usually forms part of.
Bang & Olufsen installed across the North West.
Clitheroe, Whalley, Longridge, Waddington, Ribchester, Chipping, Sabden, Downham, Slaidburn, Wiswell, Great Mitton, Hurst Green, Billington, Langho, Clayton-le-Dale
Fulwood, Penwortham, Broughton, Goosnargh, Grimsargh, Longton, Hutton, Lea, Barton, Woodplumpton
Lytham, St Annes, Ansdell, Fairhaven, Wrea Green, Kirkham, Freckleton, Warton, Singleton
Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Chorley, Lancaster, Garstang, Ormskirk, Rawtenstall, Padiham, Whitworth
Didsbury, Chorlton, Bowdon, Hale, Sale, Worsley, Prestwich, Ramsbottom, Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme
Knutsford, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Mobberley, Tarporley, Tattenhall, Chelford, Goostrey, Nether Alderley
Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Prestbury, Hale Barns, Mottram St Andrew, Styal, Dean Row, Handforth
Woolton, Allerton, Aigburth, Formby, Crosby, Heswall, West Kirby, Caldy, Blundellsands
Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside, Grasmere, Coniston, Ullswater, Pooley Bridge, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Keswick
Not on the list? Ask anyway. Plenty of our work sits outside the towns above, and a five-minute phone call will tell you whether we are the right people for it.
Bang & Olufsen, honestly answered.
The rest of the platforms we hold accreditation for.
Let us make the room behave.
We visit, listen, measure, and come back with drawings and a fixed price. If another platform suits the house better, we will tell you that too.