Maybe downloading the "Technical Sound Guide" from

Maybe an option could be to connect the optical digital out on the Apple TV to the digital in on the V1 via an toslink to coax converter. The make a new source (for example use the analog AV which can make use of the digital in) and make a default speakergroup with the desired settings for this. Don't know if this will solve the problem but it could be worth a try

Hello keanone

I found your post interesting and thought I might comment on it.

First of all the P.MUTE has always stood for picture mute. In other words, you can turn picture off while listning to music. As far as I am aware, it has never changed the speaker roles.

Second, go to your speaker groups and create 1 for center 2 for left/right and 3 for all three.

When AirPlaying your Spotify to the tv just list to speaker and press 2. Voila ! No more searching in menu to speaker group etc.....

As for your comment on that if the speaker 2 function doesnt exist then the V-1 is just an overpriced screen I say this. You went to B&O and thought the tv was reasonably priced and bought it. IF you had this AirPlay requirement you should have asked dealer before buying. You abviously thought tv was good price, bought it and can't set it up.

This review is pretty good !

@vienna Thanks Vienna, this may help to improve the sound! I will dig into it.

@madsk - Unfortunately, assigning a default speaker group seems only possible for source "radio", but not for HDMI or AV sources. Pretty weird, it looks like a software bug.

Next week (when the required cable comes in) I will try to add my external DAC to the AV din input. That may help for the sound quality - or so i hope ;-) 

@1983beo - thanks, that will make my life better - at least it will take less steps to get to speaker group 2. Assigning it as default seems impossible for any other source than "radio", though. The tech guy even called B&O, but they didn't know what to do either.

@scottyltd

Thanks for your help.

About your remarks: with my previous B&O television (the Beovision 8) it was possible to configure P.MUTE to shut down both screen AND center speaker - and indeed, the speaker option will help, I didn't know it existed!

However, there is really no need to get defensive here. I am a long term B&O user and even had the Spotify with Airplay solution going on for quite a while on my BV8. Also, I read the reviews, which is why I bought this TV in the first place. However, there are some disadvantages of being an early adopter, though. Apparently because this model is pretty new, nobody at the dealer nor B&O technical support itself knew how to deal with some aspects of the software. For example, the manual says you can address speaker groups to any source - but in real life (or at least with the current version of the V1 software), you can't.

Anyway, the B&O dealer did some research and says they may have a solution. I am curious to find out ;-) 

1983beo wrote:

Keanone

I thought that you also can add speaker 2 as default on apple tv (hdmi1) in advanced settings

I have looked for a way to do it when changing the audio mode but have been unsuccesfull. I will check your suggestion and let you know.

H.