Hi,

As far as I can ascertain...this is not a NL system. I can remember the days when I had an Avant 65, BS5 (via MLNL Converter) in the lounge, BV10 and another BS5 (ML) in the Sitting Room and a Western Digital NAS and Essence in the office/home network. That was all very slow and cumbersome.

The Eclipse (LG Music Player) is very handy on picking ANY network database (My music NAS, my Auralic Streamers internal server and and HDD connected to my Laptop) and thus gives you ability to select via the app. Im also sure that if I put my Astell & Kern DAP in "broadcast" mode, i.e. in DNLA mode, that too can be selected.

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Yep. That’s pretty much what I was asking. I regularly put the news on in the living room and go to the kitchen which is adjacent and join my BS1 to the TV’s audio. The rooms are near enough that if the audio was out of sync I’d notice. All I have to do is a double-tap the top of my BS1 and it Just Works (most of the time). Same with the BS2 I have upstairs. This was for me B&O’s Killer App and the reason I spent what most people would regard as a ridiculous amount of money on a television. The motorised stand and PUC were the icing on the cake.

With the Essence (now transferred to my son), pressing the "0" multiple times gave access to NAS Music and Web Radio. < and > moved fwd/Bkw the NAS track or station. If the TV was switched on, then three "0"'s cycles through and joins. With the App or BR1, one had to simply press "join" the source in the target area.

Any updates Sandyb?

Just been to my dealer to talk Theatre setup etc.

The option of expanding out the audio (from video sources) to other B&O speakers - lets say, A9 / BS1 / M3 etc etc) - works, with the Theatre as a starting viewing experience, but the joined speakers are not in sync.  There is no option you can adjust the sync with either.

He is pretty confident that once Speaker Link (what effectively replaced Network Link for newer products) is built out - which I think it should - then yes, the streams should be in sync.

So a halfway house at the moment - and we tried (and got the same "yes, but out of sync" results) using (A) regular TV fed to the LG/Theatre using a aerial cable (B) Netflix internal to the LG and (C) and HDMI to the Theatre external source (XBOX)......all with the same result.

As I said before I think, the Eclipse generation BVs seemed to allow audio from video to be shared, but they were never brought into sync over time.  All a bit different to the BS4 generation BVs (BV11 / 12 etc etc) where there was the clear option to "share audio from video" and they were all largely in sync.

Anyway, hope that helps. I guess if its a deal breaker for you, then you may want to wait for Speaker Link to be updated/ improved to bring things into line.

That's a shame. I'm eager to upgrade to an OLED TV but I'm not sure if I'm willing to do it at the expense of that feature. If I am I might as well look at some of the other brands, such as Sony or Samsung which have just brought out their new Quantum Dot OLED TVs.

If B&O really wanted to make it work properly they could. All they have to do is delay the audio that's sent to the TVs speaker so that it's in sync with the other speakers, and delay the video so that it's in sync with the audio. I'd be surprised if we were talking more than 100 milliseconds in total. I mean TVs already have the ability to delay the video they show so that external speakers are in sync. I wonder what their excuse is.

Never heard of Speaker Link but I will keep an eye out for it. Hopefully they will add it to older products (like my BS1 and BS2) via a software update so they can play in sync with the new TVs. One thing I have learned over the years is that B&O cannot be trusted with software, so I'm reluctant to buy anything new until the software has actually been released and is working reliably (ha!).

The one thing I would say is that we know they are working on allowing / making possible other standalone products as surround sound speakers i.e. with a Theatre.

As part of this. sync issues must be sorted by necessity.

What we dont know is whether older products (on the ASE platform - like BS1 / 2, A9, M3 etc etc) will gain this ability / benefit or whether its just the newer Mozart enabled speakers (Level, Balance etc).

I wouldn't expect anything on this front for 9 months though.

 

You're looking at it from a family situation perspective. For those with smaller households, or single person households like myself, its a much more obvious usage scenario.

And remember, it worked perfectly well (sync wise) before, so its not obvious what the issue now is. If there is a technical reason its likely in the Eclipse/Harmony/ Theatre - a BS2 cannot be in sync with those, but can be with a BV11, for example.

Anyway, its not a deal breaker for me, I can work around small sync issues. But that won't be the case for all.

I own a Beovision Harmony and several Beosounds (1, 35, Core, M3).

Regarding the Bang & Olufsen support (I asked for support), audio streaming of the TV program from the Beovision Harmony to Beosounds does not work!

In reality, it works but unfortunately with a time lag = echo.

The echo is strong when you use the standard settings in settings -> beolink -> sound synchronization 1000 (wi-fi msec). It is much better when you go down to 100 msec. Unfortunately with decreasing msec the stability when steaming music getting worth. 100 is for me a good compromise working OK in my network.