Well, not many B&O products were merely Philips in a different case. I think it was 1 or 2 of the smaller TVs. But many of their CRT, LCD, Plasma and LED screens have been sourced from the bigger manufacturers... just with a much stricter QA in the contract. So a panel Samsung would ship for their own products would be disqualified for dead pixels by B&O. And B&O designs the electronics to drive the display. Speakers on the other hand is the true cash cow of the company, so most are own production, Dynaudio has supplied some of the units. But the Audi example was home made, later bought by H-K. (Silly idea to sell one of the two departments that made the most money). B&O Play series is designed and QAed in DK, but most often sourced in Asia, to have some products that most people can afford. Anyway B&O is merely a shadow of what it was back when I worked for them in Struer... Lurpak is doing fine.
@@jai3476 yeah, but the electronics around the tube was home made... there were only a couple of TV that were actual copies put into a designed shell. Most of their LCD, LED and OLED has panels made by Samsung, but with a contract so strict that if they found something like 5 dead pixels in an entire shipping container, Samsung would pay for the next container full. Of course, landing such a contract is expensive... they pay perhaps 5x the price per panel as if they'd be OK with a few faults... but it also means that every panel they receive has been through quality control at Samsung before being shipped from Korea to Denmark. And then again, they did the electronics around the panels themselves. I think it was Panasonic for plasma panels. But amplifiers and speakers was their own design, a few times with Dynaudio units. B&O isn't necessarily audiophile sound, it's a panel of listeners asked to figure out what sounds the best, not what sounds the most exact like the recording. I was working at their Struer facility when the Audi A8 with B&O was revealed... and I remember one line in the specification very clearly. "You need to be able to go 230 km/h down the German Autobahn and fully enjoy a classical concert, no matter where you sit in the car... sooo, B&O being B&O used a handful of those dolls with realistic ears... and once the measurements were "close enough" they hired a driver or two to actually go up and down the Autobahn in a car loaded with dolls and other equipment, to make sure the audio quality was good and nothing was rattling. When you buy a $10'000 option for your $100'000 car (+taxes) it needs to be perfect. I had the luxury of experiencing the two A8 W12 prototypes they used (not full speed on the Autobahn tho)... it's amazing how the noise cancellation and attention to detail simply make you feel like you're in a bubble and can hear every little detail of a classical piece of music. When they did the first Aston Martin and the sporty Audis, the requirements were a tad different, turns out that the customers for those cars like to hear their own motor.
@@BenjaminVestergaard brilliant insight into B&O, thank you for sharing. I really love how they blend great aesthetics and great performance in all their products. A B&O CRT with an aperture grill tube from Sony would be my grail CRT.
Struer is such a beautiful city man my (step)grandad was from there (rip) honestly such a perfect city to cycle in you can cycle through the whole city, i really hope the city gets back on its feet again (actually may be a town cause i think its about the size of Tórshavn 21 thousand besides the point) held og lykke.
@@MortanAMrk yeah, it's a cozy mid-size town. But as Motorola and Ericsson disappeared and B&O shrank, it has really become a quiet town today. Many of the employees went to Grundfos, Velux, Siemens, Vestas and Lego which are all quite far away, so many moved out and only few people go to Struer to work anymore. Most of the B&O facilities are now housing a bunch of smaller companies that deal with audio, as B&O is one of very few companies that had a sound-dead room privately, they're more often found at universities. So, it's good to know that the facilities are still used, it just doesn't attract the same amount of people as it used to.
Bang & Olufsen from my step grandads home Struer (actually the house they bought was just across the street), cant believe hes been gone for 13 years now man. B&O basically also dead too but i mean that happened to every national company in 2008 crisis they were either sucked up by the americans or the chinese
Supercharger invented before turbo charger Super charge heavy on fuel and needs to be driven but has power all the way from tick over Turbo charger runs off exhaust heat and unspent fuel vapour as it burns it spools itself up and has more top end power band better fuel effeciency But both of them together as a synergies that’s where the real power lives no doubt about that. smash a bit of noz in there too Party time they’ll be a wreck on the roadside near you soon 🎉🥳
People commenting on a clip from top gear thats many many years old at this point, these cars are now in customer hands, Shmee150 has one, and from what I've seen they look really well made and its stupid powerful, 1500 hp or something, I dont remember exact numbers. Its a Zenvo...
I can't help but notice every time these guys are on they find a way to insu.t other nationalities. It gets really tiresome watching them wave their flag.
Zenvo looks kinda like a more aggressive lotus
Lots of trouble usually serious
Yeah, good call.
Dang now I can't unsee it
Angry Exige
Ooh
I’ve got an audi with b&o and its quite an experience
I get stiff over it
Yesterday i test drove a 2023 lariat f150 with a B&O sound system and it was amazing!
@@ac06god1 f150 😂😂😂
Do you rise up along with them?
@@Beauloqsbest selling vehicle of all time.
😂he couldn't wait to drop that last line
As a Dane i can confirm the Bang & Lurpak V8 Bacon 😂
Do you know how many swinepower it's putting down?
@@sleazymeezy1500 Danishes, or 2367 Carlberg Hof... 🤷🏻♂️
@@sleazymeezy1864 Prussians
I miss my daily dose of top gear. Grew up watching it with my dad here in the states. Now I’ve gos find it and not caught up 😢
@@TheSmitty890 the grand tour is a pretty good substitution 😃
can't wait for the newer bang and lurpak
Never heard of B&O so had a Google.
Sweet lord, that's expensive !!
@@Captain_Yata Are you sure you don't have an HP with B&O speakers in it? I'm pretty sure they have never released a PC
@@Captain_Yata😂
How couldn't you😅
this looks like Unreal Engine 5 starter pack car
This car is older than UE5, so technically those cars resemble the Zenvo (the car shown in the short).
and now zenvo has proven to be a great supercar. I appreciate the Danish for making a great supercar brand❤
Invented in 1901
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Or 1903 according to Mr Slowly
@@nodafy He changes the year on a regular basis
Lurpak spreadable butter invented in 1904
B&O does really have some amazing stuff
I heard lurpak and thought of the cheese memes
Aaah the Zenvo ST1, it's got a nice sound though
To be fair, it's actually very cool to get into my Audi and not only do the speakers lift up, but the center screen also lifts up on the dashboard.
Being a Dane this IS freaking HILARIOUS 🤣
The Zenvo is a fire-breathing monster!
Well, not many B&O products were merely Philips in a different case. I think it was 1 or 2 of the smaller TVs.
But many of their CRT, LCD, Plasma and LED screens have been sourced from the bigger manufacturers... just with a much stricter QA in the contract. So a panel Samsung would ship for their own products would be disqualified for dead pixels by B&O. And B&O designs the electronics to drive the display.
Speakers on the other hand is the true cash cow of the company, so most are own production, Dynaudio has supplied some of the units. But the Audi example was home made, later bought by H-K. (Silly idea to sell one of the two departments that made the most money).
B&O Play series is designed and QAed in DK, but most often sourced in Asia, to have some products that most people can afford.
Anyway B&O is merely a shadow of what it was back when I worked for them in Struer... Lurpak is doing fine.
I believe their CRTs used Philips Matchline shadow mask tubes - high end but still Philips
@@jai3476 yeah, but the electronics around the tube was home made... there were only a couple of TV that were actual copies put into a designed shell.
Most of their LCD, LED and OLED has panels made by Samsung, but with a contract so strict that if they found something like 5 dead pixels in an entire shipping container, Samsung would pay for the next container full.
Of course, landing such a contract is expensive... they pay perhaps 5x the price per panel as if they'd be OK with a few faults... but it also means that every panel they receive has been through quality control at Samsung before being shipped from Korea to Denmark.
And then again, they did the electronics around the panels themselves.
I think it was Panasonic for plasma panels.
But amplifiers and speakers was their own design, a few times with Dynaudio units. B&O isn't necessarily audiophile sound, it's a panel of listeners asked to figure out what sounds the best, not what sounds the most exact like the recording.
I was working at their Struer facility when the Audi A8 with B&O was revealed... and I remember one line in the specification very clearly. "You need to be able to go 230 km/h down the German Autobahn and fully enjoy a classical concert, no matter where you sit in the car... sooo, B&O being B&O used a handful of those dolls with realistic ears... and once the measurements were "close enough" they hired a driver or two to actually go up and down the Autobahn in a car loaded with dolls and other equipment, to make sure the audio quality was good and nothing was rattling.
When you buy a $10'000 option for your $100'000 car (+taxes) it needs to be perfect.
I had the luxury of experiencing the two A8 W12 prototypes they used (not full speed on the Autobahn tho)... it's amazing how the noise cancellation and attention to detail simply make you feel like you're in a bubble and can hear every little detail of a classical piece of music.
When they did the first Aston Martin and the sporty Audis, the requirements were a tad different, turns out that the customers for those cars like to hear their own motor.
@@BenjaminVestergaard brilliant insight into B&O, thank you for sharing.
I really love how they blend great aesthetics and great performance in all their products.
A B&O CRT with an aperture grill tube from Sony would be my grail CRT.
Struer is such a beautiful city man my (step)grandad was from there (rip) honestly such a perfect city to cycle in you can cycle through the whole city, i really hope the city gets back on its feet again (actually may be a town cause i think its about the size of Tórshavn 21 thousand besides the point) held og lykke.
@@MortanAMrk yeah, it's a cozy mid-size town. But as Motorola and Ericsson disappeared and B&O shrank, it has really become a quiet town today. Many of the employees went to Grundfos, Velux, Siemens, Vestas and Lego which are all quite far away, so many moved out and only few people go to Struer to work anymore.
Most of the B&O facilities are now housing a bunch of smaller companies that deal with audio, as B&O is one of very few companies that had a sound-dead room privately, they're more often found at universities. So, it's good to know that the facilities are still used, it just doesn't attract the same amount of people as it used to.
Love to read the subtitles , oh no I can't there's a big red subscribe word smack in the way, way to go genius 👏 😂
will it be made out of Lego ?
Bang & Olufsen from my step grandads home Struer (actually the house they bought was just across the street), cant believe hes been gone for 13 years now man. B&O basically also dead too but i mean that happened to every national company in 2008 crisis they were either sucked up by the americans or the chinese
As a Swede, I laughed at the last bit... 🤣
So the interior is dutch?
I got bang and auf and quiet right to as its in,a ford 1.0 3 cylinder ecoboost
Surprised they didn't say that it would be made of Legos
The Zenvo Bang&Lurpak would be a banger tbh. screw the Tsr-s we need the b&l s
Wait till they see it catches on fire in a later episode
Philips from Denmark😂. Don’t think so… it’s Dutch.
I thought supercharged was another way of saying turbocharged. Who will enlighten us with the difference?
Turbo charger basically works on the exhaust manifold to spin it, supercharger works off a pulley from the engine to spin it
The original turbocharger was called a superturbocharger but they are different things now. Different things but the point of them are the same
Supercharger invented before turbo charger
Super charge heavy on fuel and needs to be driven but has power all the way from tick over
Turbo charger runs off exhaust heat and unspent fuel vapour as it burns it spools itself up and has more top end power band better fuel effeciency
But both of them together as a synergies that’s where the real power lives no doubt about that. smash a bit of noz in there too
Party time they’ll be a wreck on the roadside near you soon 🎉🥳
People commenting on a clip from top gear thats many many years old at this point, these cars are now in customer hands, Shmee150 has one, and from what I've seen they look really well made and its stupid powerful, 1500 hp or something, I dont remember exact numbers. Its a Zenvo...
_Bang & Lurpak_ 😂😂😂😂
Isn't Phillips Dutch?
B&O has always been made by other companies usually Hitachi in the 70's 80's and 90's i don't work on electronics now probably Chinese now.
Phillips is Dutch
I'm surprised James didn't mention which year Lurpak was invented.
Lmao my Omen laptop has Bang & Olufsen
And then it caught fire in the track
But...Philips is Dutch.
A supercar that's super charged and turbo charged, bit like having the loudest sound system in the library 🥴🥴🥴
Philips is Dutch not Danish lol
Kinda looks like the Vaydor G35
I use that thing in Rocket League
Surprised there was no Lego jokes
SuperBang Turbo
I am
Can I get it at Aldi with a bit of a discount.
Back when they had a hot girl always standing behind Jeremy
Envy
Build it out of Lego
Supercar... has V8 engine... the onlything super about it, is the compresser on the intake...
Philips is dutch
Ain't Philips dutch?
Yes it is
That’s why they were used
Seems to imply that Bang & Olufsen now has Phillips innards
If it ain't Dutch it ain't much 🤷 😂😇
@@Davidofthelost Telling you're American without actually telling it.
Philips is Dutch
Too bad phillips is dutch
So I'm guessing the sat nav voice will just be really rude and blunt then...
Only speaks in vowels
I never understood this British sense of humor..
Yes, B&O has been a fools brand for some years now.
It's mid...😂
Lego car
Lego, anyone?
I can't help but notice every time these guys are on they find a way to insu.t other nationalities. It gets really tiresome watching them wave their flag.
Looks an awful lot like the rimac
It’s a Zenvo st1
It isn't, it's the zenvo tsr-s
It’s the other way round …
its an zenvo and zenvo was way before rimac
Lmaooo cant be serious
If you need an expensive sound system to drown out the noise of your car engine, you are doing two things wrong.
😂😂😂😂 not good at All
Philips is dutch