B&O speakers could use a little makeup

(Credit: Bang & Olufsen)

Some of us at Crave are an admittedly superficial lot, one that's particularly taken with just about anything that comes from the designers at Bang & Olufsen. But not this time.

The Danish company's "BeoLab 3" speakers seem kind of like a high-tech interpretation of the emperor's clothes--they look almost naked, but we're supposed to laud their innovative design. Given B&O's track record, however, we have little doubt that they'll provide quality sound; according to Luxurylaunches, each unit houses three drivers with a tweeter positioned on top like a periscope, all the while employing Acoustic Lens Technology. It's just that, with these particular aluminum-and-rubber models, we wouldn't feel as if we were getting our money's worth for $3,200.

[make_or_break]

But it's B & O

You pay for all that [i]style[/i], after all.

Frankly, I think that they're pretty primal-looking...and rather fugly, IMO.

[zbangando]

With Bang & Olufsen you not only pay for something that has a weird look (in my taste it looks attractive), but also that no one else posses in your neighborhood or possible town depending on where you live. The most common mistake that I read in reviews and comments alike is that too much attention is paid upon the esthetics and not what truly matters, the sound.

[zbangando]

Although these speakers look as though they are "naked", their tech is what matters. They do sound suberb. Again, this insight failed to detail that the Acoustic lens Technology is only applied to their tweeters.