Millemissen wrote:

Get a dedicated tablet for media-only, and give it a friendly nickname that won't remind you of work or 'some one elses hardware'....

😂Are you honestly telling me the best possible controller for a (very expensive) B&O media system is an app on an iPad??

Puncher wrote:

Are you honestly telling me the best possible controller for a (very expensive) B&O media system is an app on an iPad??

I'm going to say yes. It matches B&O's ethos of convenient luxury. Of course something like control 4 will do it, but it's not as cool or sharp or ergonomic as apple. You need a controller, what's better than apple?!

essence wrote:

Puncher wrote:

Are you honestly telling me the best possible controller for a (very expensive) B&O media system is an app on an iPad??

 

I'm going to say yes. It matches B&O's ethos of convenient luxury. Of course something like control 4 will do it, but it's not as cool or sharp or ergonomic as apple. You need a controller, what's better than apple?!

Luxury??😂

Also, your best possible controller for a B&O media system has no IR facility for current, older or third party product.

Millemissen wrote:

tournedos wrote:

 Have you touch screen advocates ever thought how a blind person would use his music system?

I am not sure it would be easier for the blind person to go to the place where the cd's are located, pick just the one he/she wants to hear and then pop it into a cd player 😠

MM

So you can't think of anything in between those extremities? They wouldn't want to adjust th volume or skip from one track / playlist to another, for example? Perhaps the fine system will read out their selections through the speakers when they are using a (tactile) remote. Perhaps the entire system is controlled through an embedded web server you can use with the accessible browser of your choice on the device of your choice, instead of a single app on a single (3rd party) platform.

Anything IOS for remote should just merely seen as a nice to have.

The Essence is fine for price point but market is there for multi room setup. For remote, having the wall mounted bluetooth remote is nice but just as an option. a solid 2 way remote that is not Ipad still has justification. 

Any existing 2 way loads the covers on demand. That causes a time lag when browsing the library which is annoying, These little details mattered in the past. Compare how much was put into the BS9000 that it can change between CDs fast and how much they have done to make Beo6 work.

Yes I can put all my music on an ipad and stream from there, butt hat doesnt support multi room ..... There is wiggle room, Sonos is positioned very well but not so much an option to drive a 7500$ speaker set ....

I am hoping the rumored B&O tablet will address .... 

Puncher wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

Get a dedicated tablet for media-only, and give it a friendly nickname that won't remind you of work or 'some one elses hardware'....

😂Are you honestly telling me the best possible controller for a (very expensive) B&O media system is an app on an iPad??

What "(very expensive) B&O media system" do you mean?

We are talking sound systems like the Essence and the Playmaker here.

Of course you need an app on e.g. an iPad to make these do what you want.

Even if B&O would create a 'hardware/software remote/pad' for these, they probably would not be able to sell enough of these.

I think they should focus on making the app (BeoMusic) as excellent as possible - with a genuine 'B&O-feeling'.

If you mean a new (universal) controller for the new and coming NL-products, you are right.

I surely would not tell you that 'an app on an iPad' would be the 'best possible controller'.

But untill we have this thing (and we don't know if it will come), app's on an iPad definitely are a good way to serve a B&O music/media system...

...in combination with the good old Beo4.

 

By the way, a lot of the high end/highprice audio systems today are being controlled by app's on the iPad:

The Aurender - http://www.aurender.com/products/s10.html#ipad

Linn - http://oss.linn.co.uk/trac

and Kaleidascape - http://www.kaleidescape.com/products/apps/

just to name a few.

 

I am not afraid to face the possibilities in non-B&O hardware, if it can be used in a descent way.

MM

 

 

Puncher wrote:

Also, your best possible controller for a B&O media system has no IR facility for current, older or third party product.

Correct - but you will have to 'feed' a Playmaker some way!

AirPlay is one way, a DLNA app is another - best used with a big screen/iPad.

A third party product like a Bluray player on a V1/BV11 etc can be controlled through the 'BeoRemote' app.

 

New B&O systems with less hardware than before (because the media is stored elsewhere) relies on a good interface.

Sure I would prefer that the hardware for this interface could be made from B&O as well.

Maybe our wishes soon come true 🙂

Exiting times, we live in!

MM

tournedos wrote:

Perhaps the entire system is controlled through an embedded web server you can use with the accessible browser of your choice on the device of your choice, instead of a single app on a single (3rd party) platform.

An interesting thought - and actually not far from reality.

Problem is: are they going to make it this way?

I doubt it - and I guess that we will have little influence on that decition.

N.B. Even if they did, I would still choose the iPad as my (3rd party) platform 😁

MM

Forget DLNA forget Airplay think CLOUD!

the big players will eventually control all content this way.

the little players such as, B&O, will survive by providing access to the cloud content in a distinctive way.

StUrrock wrote:

B&O, will survive by providing access to the cloud content in a distinctive way

I agree.