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e Shape offers a unique amount of customization power in terms of the system's appearance and audio quality. Not only do buyers choose the colors of their Shape's tiles, they also choose how many tiles they want, whether they want more or less speakers and dampeners in their unit, as well as the exact form the abstract figure will take when it is installed on the wall. B&O has partnered with Danish textile designer Kvadrat to develop a selection of hues and textures available for each tile—color options include Parisian Night Blue, Infantry Green, Brazilian Clay and Wild Dove Grey. e Shape is far more concerned with lifestyle and interior design than any other B&O product to date. e sheer number of tailoring options available illustrates that the Shape was designed with adaptability in mind. e basic BeoSound Shape package is roughly $4,266 and includes a set of eight tiles—four speakers, two dampeners, one amplifier and one BeoSound Core, which functions essentially as the brain of the entire system. e Shape can be expanded to include 11 amplifiers and 44 speakers, given that you have the wall space to accommodate such an expanse. e Shape's audio system was designed over the course of three years by Øivind Alexander Slaatto—the man behind the success of B&O's A9 speaker. Keeping with the themes of lifestyle, adaptability and interior design, it is clear that Slaatto did not construct the Shape with audiophiles in mind. If you are the kind of listener who wants to sit alone in a chair and deep dive into the music, the Shape is not for you. e Shape was craed using an algorithm B&O calls "Band on the Wall," which spreads the soundstage across all of the speakers, regardless of their positioning, and pushes voices towards the center. e up-mixing algorithm VUE ON DESIGN V U E N J . C O M 46

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