From Malock on the french section, he gave me the info regarding the BS5 :

- no touch screen

- the right "cylinder" will have more than one mobile wheel.

Cheers,

Guy

whats with the obession with touch screens on things?!? my iphone looks awesome for all of 5 secs after I clean it.

imagine a touchscreen 5 times the size of the iphone with all the greasy fingerprints - won't look attractive on my sideboard!

the wheel(s) do look like offering an exciting interface - and is that not what we're after really - something interesting to play with instead of scrolling through file names?

plus isn't the only thing stopping the BS5 playing apple loss-less files a matter of apple being snooty about sharing their music on non apple products - surely it would just require a software update to include the format? plus spending 10seconds on google and you can convert loss-less apple into other formats...

bring on november...

Is there information on the Beomaster 5 component which I presume in usually on the floor or on a shelf.  What are the connectors?  Is there a digital out and a AUX in?  Thanks 

Do we know when we can expect to see this at U.K. dealers?

Craig🙂

Re: Another direction....

Not with a beolab 8000, But when you have good loudspeakers a beolab 9 or 5 for instance there will be a huge difference

It is a beautiful thing. Very Bang & Olufsen in design and build quality, the 'wheels' have a wonderfully smooth action...

I love it!.

astrauch:

It is indeed a difference if you listen to a CD with a B&O player and compare that to a normal MP3, but you don't hear a difference between MP3 (or AAC) and WAV with a digital music device (PC, iPod, Beosound 2...).

I think you'd struggle to tell the difference between 320 kbps AAC and the original CD. In fact, it's impossible - nobody would be able to do it.

The BeoSound 5 uses B&O's own sound chips - they've taken the sound very seriously. Apple Lossless won't be supported as Apple won't license it out.

Sonos can play apple lossless. So the statement that they don't license it out can not be correct.

That said, I do believe that 320 is a good choice since lossless files are just too big to handle with most portable devices and who would want to manage 2 libraries.

Once I know what I do next, I will re-rip my collection up to 320 from 192 which has a very noticeable difference to CD in direct comparison. I encourage anyone to do a direct comparison. I would think it is very possible to train an ear to detect the difference.

Obviously they better have a good reason not to include lossless since it might turn some buyers off. Like 1 HDMI in the BV8. 

Cheers

JK