Bang & & Olufsens Beoremote Halo is gorgeous & & expensive, but its not completely clear why its necessary, or what it really … is. Heres what we do understand: It costs $900, and is a round gadget with a rectangle-shaped touch screen that lets you control the Bang & & Olufsen music system you clearly have in your home. Because B&O does not do awful, and of course it looks attractive as hell.
Why do I require this?Bang & & Olufsen
There are 2 Halo options for some reason: a portable table and a wall-mounted version stand variety. The table stand version has a battery so you can move it from room to room, and the Halo can be charged through USB-C, or B&Os Beoplay Qi charging pad (which itself costs significantly more than most charging pads, at $125). Even after checking out the specs and description of what the Halo does, Im still attempting to figure out why you need a bespoke orb like this to play music in your house. Its a round remote control for your home music system.
That other device in the background is the $40,000 Beolab 50. That is not a typo. Bang & & Olufsen
Bang & & Olufsen is well understood for its pricey variation of headphones, speakers, clever speakers, and other audio products, so its not a substantial surprise that this push-button control would be gorgeous and costly. The description of the Halo isnt rather living up to the usual B&O buzz, imo: “If youre listening to a particular radio station on your Bang & & Olufsen music system, you can push and hold the specific radio and a favourite button station will now be kept on this button. The simpleness of saving a preferred is the [exact same] concept as vehicle radios have used for decades.” 9 hundred dollars for a hot car radio? Or is it a remote control? Im still extremely baffled.
The table stand variation has a battery so you can move it from room to space, and the Halo can be charged through USB-C, or B&Os Beoplay Qi charging pad (which itself costs significantly more than a lot of charging pads, at $125). The display will reveal your saved preferred tunes, and will link to the most just recently accessed Bang & & Olufsen music gadget in your house (in case you have more than one). It has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity “and it will determine by itself which technology to utilize in particular circumstances.” Thats sort of an elegant way of describing what a lot of Bluetooth-enabled gadgets do, but OK. Look how quite it is!
Bang & & Olufsen states the Halo “provides you all the benefit of an easy interface,” illuminate when you get close, and uses a one-button press to select your music. So its a speaker? A radio? “There is no need to use your mobile phone or to pull anything out of your pocket and fiddle around searching for the best app to begin.” OK, no apps. There are 2 Halo alternatives for some factor: a wall-mounted version and a portable table stand range. The latter is currently offered out online, assuming it remained in stock to begin with.
Even after reading the specs and description of what the Halo does, Im still trying to figure out why you need a bespoke orb like this to play music in your home. Its a round remote control for your home music system.
And of course it looks hot as hell because B&O doesnt do awful.
