Well maybe they figure as most people lost 30% of their stock portfolios over the last weeks 6000 is not that much.

I am not sure if that us true or not, around 5000 was posted before .

What surprises me that google has now 30K "Beosound 5" hits after the engadget article. Did we see an increase in traffic here? Once one of these Blogs has a story hundreds seem to cross post.

The BeoSound 5 is high-end! It's not a direct replacement for the BeoMedia; the BeoMaster 5 is, which is part of the BeoSound 5 package. The BeoSound 5 package is much more than just another a mediacenter - it's a BeoSound.

If you find the price of a BeoSound 5 ridiculous, then you should also find the price of the BeoSound 4, BeoSound 3200, BeoSound 9000 and BeoCenter 2 completely ridiculous...

Other people here have posted that it would be 30000 DKK which is around 4000 Euro, 5000 was rumored.

They must have had significant budget over run giving all the delays, so maybe they had to bump it up.

I personally think they need to be careful pricing this right, especially since it comes initially without a 2 way remote (and there may never be one like there is no software for beo 5 programming for do it yourself). 

For judging the price, we know very little about how well it works.

For example: how do they apply MOTS? Is it sing by song or does it try to find a matching album? If it is song by song, does it suggest the next matching song when I choose it? Can I built a playlist on the fly and then just have that play? Does it have a continues auto selection mode? 

I think a lot depends really how they implement these feature and looking at the BC 2 MK1, Press Go Go anyone? They were not very tackling the user interaction or recognizing the importance.

I swear to god, in one of my demos when I played with it in store I thought it was broken because I couldnt navigate the DVD menue and the sales rep was new. I mean, how thinks one must push Go twice to play a DVD?

So that said it could be worth 10K, it could be worth nothing depending how they implement the feature and how much they learned over the years.

You can't take the screen off. That was confirmed earlier by people who saw it in flesh. I was hoping for that especially since that was part of the design concept that was discussed in a magazine article some time back. 

A 2 way remote is supposed to come down the line, that was posted here.