Thanks so much for this input.  I am about 12 months away from the floors going in with wiring and 18-20 months from the house being ready.

So I will keep an eye on what are options that are easiest to manage.  I have a large family and lots of grandkids so trying to keep it real simple.  Will "kids" be able to use something like Spotify and their playlists via a Wim Proplus or BlueSound?

Many thanks

Ed

Ed,

Wiim application includes access to a number of streaming services, such as Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify. So the "kids" would easily listen to their music providing they have this app on their phone.

Another plus is that Wiim are nit expensive, so you can include several units in your household.

Here is a summary of my setup, if it can help your thinkings.

Login to view image

they both have loads of connectivity options wirelessly - both include Spotify yes.

Both seemingly have pretty good apps of their own, through which you should see your NAS music.

The only thing you may want to research / check beforehand is how well they handle very large NAS libraries - as yours seems to be. Roon (with a Roon server setup somewhere in the house, doesn't matter where) is superb with massive libraries, but you may not want to go down that route.

Generally though, you've got pretty damn good reasonably priced options like the Blusound and Wiim (and others) - and both with good control UIs.

I ditched my Moment years ago, and have 3rd party hardware feeding my B&O speakers (I use Roon as a control UI), and its perfect - B&O, when it comes to control UIs, dont cater well for NAS stored music, so you're right to look elsewhere for that part.

 

 

Thanks so much for this-- I am studying now and the diagram is FANTASTIC.  I need to pass something to the architect in some months with how I want to wire things and this is what I will need to do soon.

I take your point, grandkids when they come of age, will teach Grandpa how to do it...hah.

I have a tendency to overthink these things and make them more complex than they need to be AND then the lovely BL5 and BL9 and 9000 become "furniture" which is ridiculous.  I have a massive room ca. 150sqm with very tall ceilings that the BL5 should fill beautifully...the at is the primary concern, everything else is "desert"....

I sure wish I reached out earlier...what a great resource.  I have old Land Cruisers and the Ih8mud forum is amazing for help...thanks for being a good neighbor....  where are you based? I am in London UK

I'd suggest you (if you havent already) speak to an installer, tell him what use case scenarios you want, and he'll advise on the cabling etc necessary.

When I had my apartment ripped out and re-done, my B&O dealer came round in advance, and he advised me / drew up a cable map.  Included some additional cables for future possible usage.

The only other thing I'd do in your case is to have a chat / sanity check with Steve (of Sounds Heavenly), especially with respect to connecting (non-B&O) TVs to BL9s or BL5s (I'm assuming you have non-B&O Tvs).

Thanks for all the input.  I used to have 2 BO tv's which were great but they were quickly dated with lack of HDMI, smart functions etc.  But I loved the picture and ability to turn the stand...oh well.

My experience is (was) in Geneva and London that the BO installers were disappointing (to be polite) and often I knew more than them.  Maybe I was unlucky but they were more interested in selling more BO products than trying to find a solution to what I sought.

My main goal is to have the NAS library available to the BL5 in my main "great room".  Being able to access the same library in the "family room on BL9 will be great.  I already have the BO hub and using digital optical cables am able to link the LG tv with the BL3.

I assume there is only one way to control the BS 9000 CD player with BO remote so the speaker would need to be wired directly to the BS9000 using BO powerlink cable(?) and separately there needs to be another cable to the BL5 and the network that would have s to the NAS via some streamer (like BlueSound or WIIM).  But I am unclear if this is possible--the Powerlink cable connecting BL5 and BS9000, and then another cable from network to BL5 (unclear what kind of cable that could be?).  See image attached, so how does the NAS get added?
Thanks

Ed

Basicly you can have two sets of Beolabs connected to the BC9000.
(And you can have the WiiM or so streamer connected to the A.Aux-in there).
But you will need to run Powerlink cables to both sets…which in your case may be a long run for one of the sets.
Furthermore both sets would be playing, when you start playback.

The better solution would be to connect the 5’s to the 9000 in one room.
Please note - if you also connect via digital from the 9000, you will only get sound from the CD part and not from the A.Aux.
You can not connect two different devices to the 5’s.
In order to get the sound from the 9000’s (including the A.Aux connected WiiM) you will have to run a Masterlink cable to a