Let me know when Stereophile magazine or Absolute Sound magazine rates the B&O the best sounding OEM sound system in the world. we have Naim, Meridian, Burmester, B&W, and I am sure others will be going after this market since people are getting up with Bose and starting to give up on Harmon Kardon. The Mark Levinson is nothing more than other components with Mark Levinison's name on it.

Actually, The Absolute Sound gave the BeoLab 5 a superb review, just so you know.

I don't know how you can reasonably rate high-end car systems with any precision. The B&O system for the Audi A8 is really excellent, in my opinion – I'm very proud of how it came out. And I'm very gratified by how it has moved down through the Audi model line, as well as morphing over into Aston Martins, Mercedes and, now, BMWs.

Currently, I have a Harman Logic 7 system in one of my cars and it also is really good, particularly in surround. I'm favorably impressed, and don't feel the need for anything better in a car, thanks.

Thanks again for writing.

Dave

yeah, i know the hype around the B&O's. I personally think the lens design used might have a little problem if listended to off axis from that center portion of the lens. to me, high frequencies are very directional, right? Well, if you look inside the lens, the tweeter is faceing up, and the sound gets funneled into the lens, but on either side of that lens are flat and the sound will reflect back towards the tweeter, If you listen to those speakers off axis, the high end tends to sound kind of smeared and loses detail. Plus, I am not a fan of B&O's electronics. they are just cool looking nice sounding, but not great sounding for me to buy their products.. I think they overall, if push came to shove, they are nice, but the audiophile community would put other speakers by mfg like Meridian, B&W, MBL, FOCAL, Wilson, etc. above B&O.