Ignace:

FAQ which covers several of these questions.

 

Another question that if answered could be added to the FAQ:

Can I have the Beosound 5/Beomaster 5 and another Audiomaster in the same room and the same Masterlink setup.

Does the AudioMaster need to be N.MUSIC compatible?

What setting needs to be applied in order to get this working?

I will be updating the FAQ over the next couple of days with answers to questions such as the ones highlighted above, but in the meantime the answers to these particular question are:-

• Your AudioMaster must be compatible to use N.Music or N.Radio
• You CAN have a Beosound 5/Beomaster 5 in the same room and on the same Masterlink setup, see below for further details

In the Service Menu you are provided with the ability to define whether the BeoMaster 5/BeoSound 5 is a AUDIO MASTER or not. If AUDIO MASTER is set to YES, it is possible to define which option the BeoMaster 5/BeoSound 5 is going to be in. If the AUDIO MASTER is set to NO the ‘Option’ item is greyed out. The options are:

• AUDIO MASTER YES / NO
• Audio Master OPTIONS 0 / 1 / 2 (greyed out if AUDIO MASTER is NO)

These and other FAQ items will be added in the next few days. I will also update the typing error I made related to web access.

Flappo The Grate:

looks nice , but no video support and only a 500 gb hd ?

i'll stick with my apple set up , ta

3 tb's and a two way remote for half the price 

With the greatest respect Flappo, do you own 37,000 CD's or something? Is half a terabyte not enough? 😛  Three terabytes would store about 2 years of music if played constantly...

Lee 

Is that true?? If you store in lossless format then you will get (very roughly) 3 CD's per gigabyte, that makes 1500 CD's in a 500Gb drive. (Still a lot more than I have mind - although, at an average of 12 tracks per CD, Peter has over 2400)

Not at all! Remember who B&O's target market is, and remember that this target market is not teenage/twenty something people who download hundreds of tracks from iTunes everyday :)

There is a lot of emphasis on MP3 and other compresed music formats at the moment, and understandably so, but it does not logically follow that bigger equals better.

People who are complaining about both lack of a CD drive AND a supposedly small hard drive are confusing two arguments. If you want more than a TB of space, how many CDs would that be? More than you would want to store in your cupboard that's for sure. A touch screen would also be very silly, as anyone who has an iPhone would know. The aluminium wheels are much more practical and intuitive.

The hard drive space and lack of CD slot fits perfectly with their intended market which, on the whole, are not so tech savvy that they will miss video streaming, multiple TB space etc.

 The only two negatives are the hideous floor stand, and the ugly black box solution. Otherwise, thumbs up B&O!

i don't just have lossless cd's on my mac , i use eyetv to record all my tv shows and archive them , got just about every top gear ever shown on the thing and still plenty of space

plus 'other' sorts of audio visual entertainment that you find on the net - ahem ;)

i like the bs5 don't get me wrong , it just seems a tad limited  

Flappo, its not limited, it's just not designed to stream episodes of Top Gear! It's a music player.

Bang & Olufsen never have, and never will, design an entertainment system that is supposed to be all things to all people.

 Just as BeoSound 3 has no DAB, or BeoSound 9000 has no recording facility, or BeoVision 8 has no DVD player, these are conscious decisions by the developers to create a product for certain areas of their very unique market. It seems that if many BeoWorld members had their way, B&O would make just one product - a TV with a CD player and MP3 player, a hard drive, DVD recorder, internet streaming, telecommunications and a 2 way remote control that they can operate their coffee machine with! 🙂

 I think we'll all fall mady in love with it when we get to see it.

Villette010:

a TV with a CD player and MP3 player, a hard drive, DVD recorder, internet streaming, telecommunications and a 2 way remote control that they can operate their coffee machine with! 🙂

But other brands that compete with B&O, Loewe are trying to do exactly that. So B&O would better beware!

 I'm beginning to like my idea as well! Perhaps I'd better apply for a patent...

Seriously though, I don't think that Loewe and B&O compete in quite the same market, so their not so dangerous a rival as one might expect. Many people don't want a single system that includes everything but the kitchen sink - not everybody would use all it's facilities yet they would still be paying for it. That's why cars aren't amphibious and home telephones don't have cameras. It might work for James Bond and the Japanese, but your average Bang & Olufsen Joe (or should that be Jonathan!?) wants a tailor made solution, not a single box that does everything for everyone.