Good evening,

thank you for all your answers.
I'm surprised about the mainly negative feedback about this system and decided to install a cable - seems the way to go ;-)

Well, I came up with somewhat different numbers. Trip was right about the pricing, I was being gouged by the selling dealer on some of the items. In addition to being overcharged and lied to, I couldn't get any competent service from either the dealer or BOA or the local service tech. I have recently bought a BS3, BV7, and BV8, and none of them is wholly satisfactory. Needless to say, I have declared a moratorium on any further B&O purchases, much as I love the equipment. With all due respect to you and Trip,  Struer has got a lot of housecleaning to do if it is to survive in the North American, not to mention the global, market. I have been a B&O customer for twenty years, and it has been truly painful to see a firm I once admired sink slowly into oblivion.

In response to Graham 1982 - i have a difficult open plan house with tiled floors etc so hard wire was not an option - i used a maplin wireless systen to tx tv to another 2 tvs both now work well had some probs with modem interference but the modem system i have is a little intelligent in that the tv system is installed and running first then the modem is activated , it selected a different frequency and so no interference - think the tx/rx kit cost about £30 and an extra rx £20  -  hope the comments help

Tony

Housecleaning in North America? Heavens! Why would we need that? Everything is great! No problems here! 👍

A classic example of whistling in the dark.

beobuff wrote:

One last caveat: all of the BL Wireless 1s being shipped by BOA have the original buggy firmware version. Among other problems, the timer function does not, er, function at all. Neither the local B&O technician, the selling dealer, nor the tech support staff at BOA were of any help whatsoever in getting this problem resolved. I finally contacted Struer myself, and they suggested that I have the firmware upgraded to the second rev. That solved the problem very nicely, no thanks to any B&O personnel on this side of the ocean.

Curious, but did you update the firmware on the BW1 yourself and yes, how?

kimhav wrote:

Curious, but did you update the firmware on the BW1 yourself and yes, how?

I had mine updated by my dealer, he simply swapped the units for an already up to date device ... and presumably at his leisure did the upgrade of my older unit in his back office

I was lucky that the old and new units were fairly close in age so there was no inventory issue

I have a BW set-up connecting my BS1 to a BS4000. There seem to be a momentary gap in sound every couple of minutes...the gap is small enough not to be noticed..but if you pay attention you can catch it.

The signal is not that problematic except with the gap mentioned above. However, I am about 20 feet below the transmitter in the basement. I do have a wireless router, becom 6000 and few other wireless devices in the system

sodoi18 wrote:

I have a BW set-up connecting my BS1 to a BS4000. There seem to be a momentary gap in sound every couple of minutes...the gap is small enough not to be noticed..but if you pay attention you can catch it. The signal is not that problematic except with the gap mentioned above. However, I am about 20 feet below the transmitter in the basement. I do have a wireless router, becom 6000 and few other wireless devices in the system

While I don't have the any BW1 units yet. But, one source of interference can be that they're just to many wifi access points using the same channel. Typical if I scan my neighbourhood I will find that most if the wifi access points available are set to make use of channel 6 and which typical isn't the best situation. So changing channel on other access points could help. What is the default channel that BW1 uses?

TWG;

Having very thick, solid masonry walls, I thought Beolink wireless was the right answer to a full B&O system in 8 rooms.  With the exception of my local B&O store salesman who ordered all the units for us, it wasn't .

The problems mentioned above are very accurate. We also experienced " snap, crackle, and pop " on a regular basis. Turning on the microwave in the Kitchen generated a "  Helicopter overhead " sound that would make Isao Tomita proud.

If we listened to Grunge it might not have been noticed, but with jazz or classical it always was. Alas, even with the wireless, you do pull line for video signal. Fortunately I found buyers for everything, and yes they still speak to us. But I would not do this again, even if the items were free.

Drill the holes, or add conduit. We are in the fun process of pulling ML for Cat. There is an expected adapter (ML to Cat )  I'm told, but it doesn't exist as yet.