Bang & & Olufsens Beoremote Halo is stunning & & costly, but its not totally clear why its required, or what it really … is. Heres what we do understand: It costs $900, and is a round device with a rectangular touch screen that lets you control the Bang & & Olufsen music system you obviously have in your home. Since B&O does not do ugly, and of course it looks sexy as hell.
Why do I need this?Bang & & Olufsen
There are two Halo choices for some reason: a portable table and a wall-mounted variation stand variety. The table stand variation has a battery so you can move it from space to space, and the Halo can be charged via USB-C, or B&Os Beoplay Qi charging pad (which itself costs significantly more than the majority of charging pads, at $125). Even after checking out the specifications and description of what the Halo does, Im still trying to figure out why you require a bespoke orb like this to play music in your house. Its a round remote control for your home music system.
And of course it looks sexy as hell since B&O does not do unsightly.
Bang & & Olufsen is well known for its high-priced version of headphones, speakers, wise speakers, and other audio products, so its not a big surprise that this push-button control would be costly and stunning. But the description of the Halo isnt quite measuring up to the usual B&O hype, imo: “If youre listening to a particular radio station on your Bang & & Olufsen music system, you can push and hold a favourite button and the specific radio station will now be kept on this button. The simplicity of saving a preferred is the [very same] principle as automobile radios have utilized for decades.” Nine hundred dollars for a sexy vehicle radio? Or is it a push-button control? Im still very baffled.
The table stand version has a battery so you can move it from space to space, and the Halo can be charged through USB-C, or B&Os Beoplay Qi charging pad (which itself costs significantly more than the majority of charging pads, at $125). The display screen will reveal your saved preferred tunes, and will connect to the most recently accessed Bang & & Olufsen music gadget in your house (in case you have more than one). It has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connection “and it will figure out by itself which innovation to use in particular situations.” Thats sort of a fancy way of explaining what the majority of Bluetooth-enabled devices do, however OK. Look how pretty it is!
Bang & & Olufsen states the Halo “gives you all the benefit of a basic user interface,” illuminate when you get close, and uses a one-button press to choose 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 start.” OK, no apps. There are 2 Halo choices for some reason: a portable table and a wall-mounted version stand variety. The latter is already offered out online, presuming it remained in stock to begin with.
That other gadget in the background is the $40,000 Beolab 50. That is not a typo. Bang & & Olufsen
Even after reading the specs and description of what the Halo does, Im still attempting to determine why you require a bespoke orb like this to play music in your home. This isnt an Echo, a Portal or a Google Home, theres no voice assistant here. Its a round push-button control for your home music system. Thats all it does. That is, if you have $900 to invest.
