regular stuff😉

Come on men,this beauty cost E4825 euro's.

Keith Saunders:

From my observations there is nothing particularly special about this audio cicuit which uses off the shelf components to provide the required solution.

Totally agree here.

and then... 🤔

Alex:

I would like to know why it can't be considered high-end audio. B&O have designed the sound chips themselves, as well as the volume controls and output stages - they've taken it all very seriously. With Lossless, it could potentially sound better than a lot of CD players.

Alex:

Either way, the sound chips in the BeoSound 5 are of B&O's own design (not off-the-shelf hardware) and will perform excellently. B&O have taken the sonic performance of the BeoSound 5 very seriously...

'cause I thought for a while you were part of the technical project team who developed this BM5 device in Struer.

Disappointed.

No, my comments were completely founded, I should have just expressed them more clearly.

When I say 'chip', I mean circuitry. The BeoMedia actually performed very well sonically, and it used what you could refer to as an 'off-the-shelf' sound card, which wasn't modified at all. B&O have gone quite a step up with the BeoMaster 5 - the processing chips may be produced by other companies, but this goes of any 'audiophile-grade-company' - it's not economically viable (producing these chips is incredibly expensive unless you can do it on a large scale). I can't say I know very much at all about the reputation of the chips used here, although I do know that STMicroelectronics chips are used by quite a few number of high-end audio brands in their pre-amps, and also that those used by B&O seem to exhibit good performance on paper.