A question I have asked in the forum a few times, is can you have both in the same system.

They complement each other perfectly, one does Radio and CD, the other one N.RADIO and N.MUSIC.

At the moment the answers seems to be that is is not possible, but it would be a mistake if B&O had not thought of a way to integrate the 2 together as potetial buyers, could be tempted to buy a Beosound 5, but would not do it because they are still in love with their Beosound 9000 or other system.

I will probably buy a Beosound 5 sometime next year, but I'd still like the possibility to pop a CD in a player.

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I have not seen anything yet which leads me to believe that you could not have both in the system at once.  Depending on details of the BeoSound 1, and just where precisely the PowerLink outputs are, I should think they will play well together. 

Of more concern, at the moment, is wether you will want both.  I have had my 9000 since January of '97, and I love it.  But this past winter I bought an AppleTV, which is attached to my Avant...and I hardly use the 9000 at all anymore.  A bigger hard drive for my iMac, and some time ripping CD's and I'm pretty well done.  That, and iTunes Music Store, and Amazon, and a couple of other sources (in various resolutions),  have kept me from buying CD's for a while now. 

I will reserve judgement until I get to play with one myself,  and can judge the 'lust' factor for myself, but I would consider very carefully.

Firstly, the BeoSound/BeoMaster 5 can exist in the same room with the BeoSound 9000 just as the BeoCenter 2 has for the past few years. It would seem from sales in my own shop as well as commentary on this board, that this is a fairly popular combination. 

However, I would say that an interesting solution might be to put the BeoSound 9000 in one room and the BeoSound 5 in another. I've always thought that this is an under-used ML setup and one that I quite enjoy myself. I think this would be particularly beneficial for two reasons. One is that the BeoSound 5 is so future ready that it does not have an optical drive or terrestrial radio, so some of us may need a few years to completely cut the cord to our older media. This would be a nice transitional setup. Two would be that the BeoSound 9000 is an easy device (and the single disc BeoSounds even easier) to navigate blindly, rather than N.MUSIC or N.RADIO, which I think most of us agree are terribly inconvenient when navigating blindly.

I'm sure that a combination of genuine utility and sheer lust will place similar setups in many of our homes! 

BeoSound 9000 when released was way ahead of its time, now connected to airport express with ipod touch still just about cutting it for me.

Having played with the BeoSound 5, it seems (IMHO) 2 years out of date already!!  With B&O past record on software development I am not hopeful for its future, although I hope that i am wrong.

Kaleidescape coupled with B&O is my dream. Those Kaleidescape boys amd girls certainly know how to design a user interface and it just oozes quality when played through B&O kit. Better start saving!!

RussR:

2 words Puncher: "Time Machine"

Good enough - how do you do it with a BM5 - can it be done? (or do B&O offer a backup service along side their CD ripping service)??

The original iTunes library can be backed up via Time Machine, meaning you have three libraries overall.