Is there any confirmation as to whether it will be able to play 24bit 192kHz downloaded music files?

 

essence wrote:

Less than £1k.

Still don't get it?

If you want to be controlled by other people's hardware get a Cambridge audio streamer/preamp - the box is equally as ugly, has a tablet app, controllable volume output preamp to your beolabs and has great reviews for just about half the price.

It's interesting an interesting product but I'm just not sure, why lot produce two options one for beolab speakers and one for passive, if you buy the essence and have to purchase beolab

Speakers the price is still going to be high, I remember years ago they talked about a good GUI, let's see what they produce, if it's good it will do well, I wish they would listen to there core market, instead of keep looking to the Far East and Russia, after all it's europe that made b & o.

kai wrote:

I wish they would listen to there core market, instead of keep looking to the Far East and Russia, after all it's europe that made b & o.

Who is the core market?

essence wrote:

Who is the core market?

Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years (circa 1955–75). It uses tiny magnetic toroids (rings), the cores, through which wires are threaded to write and read information. Each core represents one bit of information. The cores can be magnetized in two different ways (clockwise or counterclockwise) and the bit stored in a core is zero or one depending on that core's magnetization direction. The wires are arranged to allow an individual core to be set to either a "one" or a "zero", and for its magnetization to be changed, by sending appropriate electric current pulses through selected wires. The process of reading the core causes the core to be reset to a "zero", thus erasing it. This is called destructive readout.

Having got into Playmaker for use in my field office, this and BL3 combo has been very good in many respects. The one thing that has let the whole show down is the software to drive it. It is simply appears in most forms to be rubbish, poorly thought out and unconsolidated in my opinion.

I don’t wont to get into the tech-stuff or a PhD in DNLA. I don’t care, I’m a grown-up and want something that is simple and easy to use. I want to play something from my PC (Win8) cos its simple, it does everything that I want without continual reconfiguration of sound settings and I don’t want it to be Apple and so on.

This is how I see things:-

1.    Airfoil. Best of what I looked at but still rubbish in terms of control. Can only stream from an operating program one at a time. There is a definite reduction in sound quality (dynamics) – especially top-end crackle or drop-out. This may in part be dur to playmaker not handling WMA lossless but the problem is not there with WMP11. Cant use the Beo4 with Airfoil.

2.    There is a 10second latency between Beoplayer and Airfoil. Not sure if this is one of those two or the Playmaker.

3.    WMP11 Play to: Excellent quality (miles above Airfoil) but clunky to load play lists rather than direct play. Does allow the Beo4 to control volume. Cant control track progression of playlist with Beo4 though.

4.    I still like BeoPlayer. Its simple, easy to navigate and just does it’s job. Use WMP11 for all the editing though when needed once in a blue moon.

5.    I want  my whole PC system to seamlessly play to Playmaker. Nothing I’ve tried seems to do this.

6.    Don’t want iTunes. Don’t ask my why…I just don’t.

So if the forthcoming BeoMusic App can get away from the concept of streaming from a phone and only sticking to iOS or android and moves to a Win PC as well, offers a Beoplayer interface which is compatible with WMP11 and then streams better quality than Airfoil and is less clunky than Play to:, then I’m in, and it will be a great piece of software that does everything I need.

Too many superfluous gimmicks in today’s digital world. We need to focus on steady simple quality and get away from “cool” gadgets and toys and make it serious relaxing WiFi/HiFi again. I hope Essence (back box) and the App can solve this.

 

My 10% of 20cents.

Hi MR 10Percent,

First of all:

The Essence will  - just like the Playmaker - support DLNA and AirPlay.

For AirPlay you will need an AirPlay compatible device (which you don't want!) to send the music to the Playmaker/Essence....

...or something that works the same way: Airfoil - which you don't like that much (neither do I).

And you don't want iTunes either.

 

For DLNA you need (in addition to the player - Playmaker/Essence - which is in that case a renderer) a DLNA compatible server and a ditto control point (a 'remote' software).

Means you can stream the music, that the server holds for you - nothing else, not  'your whole pc'.

That is NOT possible - DLNA doesn't work that way.

You can - as you know - use the DLNA function in the WMP11. But that is too 'clunky' as you have noticed.

There are a lot of other DLNA compatible progs for the pc (and the mac) - but they won't help you either.

 

The 'BeoMusic' app will be for iOS and (maybe?) for Android, but you won't get a Win-version of it. And it would not play 'your whole pc' anyway.

I am almost afraid to say that the new app won't solve your 'problem' ;-(

 

A lot of people want something 'not-Applish', that can do the same thing (for audio) as AirPlay (on iOS and Mac devices) does, but there is no such thing!!!

You will have to simply connect your Pc to the 'line-in' of the Playmaker/Essence-box.

If you can live with the lower quality that Bluetooth devices provide, you can connect a Bluetooth receiver to the Playmaker/Essence and this way stream all 'your pc'.

 

Or you will have to get used to Apple/AirPlay (at least untill something similar for Win turns up).

If you once have experienced how easy and smooth AirPlay works (on iDevices and Mac), I guess you would have to give it a try! ;-)

 

Greetings Millemissen

tournedos wrote:

essence wrote:

Who is the core market?

Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years (circa 1955–75). It uses tiny magnetic toroids (rings), the cores, through which wires are threaded to write and read information. Each core represents one bit of information. The cores can be magnetized in two different ways (clockwise or counterclockwise) and the bit stored in a core is zero or one depending on that core's magnetization direction. The wires are arranged to allow an individual core to be set to either a "one" or a "zero", and for its magnetization to be changed, by sending appropriate electric current pulses through selected wires. The process of reading the core causes the core to be reset to a "zero", thus erasing it. This is called destructive readout.

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I noticed a new product called Beep on engadget. Very similar idea to Beosound Essence - but it sells for 1/10th the price it has the ability to link multiple units together for synchronized audio. It only works with Pandora and their own app for now so I'm not sure how successful it will be.

https://www.thisisbeep.com/

 

 

Beep seems very interesting - at least for Android users.

But it is 'pre order' and has to date only one service on bord (Pandora, which isn't interesting for europeans).

It surely is a device, that one should have a closer look at...

...when/if it will be on sale.

MM