I am not worried tat much about price. I am worried about managing content. I have Itunes and an ipod and it needs to somehow integrate with that without a big wahoo.

I have the seen the BS at a dealer in Germany, but how music is loaded is a somewhat big question mark. To expect one to use Beoplayer is a no go for me.

Also, nobody really knows if it can do gapless playing, for classic and DJ mixes a must. Once I have these points clarified, I think I start thinking about it, price is not such an issue inmy opinion if functionality is really there to replace a CD.

Cheers

JK 

Hello,

Im not sure i agree that CD will be a dead format in a few years, particularly given the often poor quality of  digital files. It is often hard to find mp 3 at higher than 256 and most are still are 128. So I'll still be buying CD's for years to come.

People said vinyl would be dead 20 years ago and it is still available and growing in popularity again. Just bought  a nice beogram 7000 myself!

While I love the look of the new beosound 5 I'm struggling to understand why I would buy it? I have beoport connected to my mac computer and beocentre 2 and i can access all my itunes library and net radio now. Would be nice to see the album cover pictures on display in my living room..but that seems the only advantage of beosound. If of course I didnt have a system at all i might go for beosound 5, but presently it offers me nothing I  dont have with my system.

Have I missed the point?? 

David Coyne

Sydney, Australia 

Just when everyone thought HDR2 would be the most expensive hard disk ever, B&O comes out with BeoSound 5...😁

I have a BeoPort that I use everyday, and I sold my BeoSound ever since I got BeoPort, and stopped buying CDs on the same day, now you can have lossless copies with BeoPort so sound quality is not an excuse anymore.

What bothers me when I read the BS5 user guide, is that it does less than BeoPort, for 10 times the price, so why should I buy it? I can have a separate screen to show all NMUSIC or NRADIO info, and navigate much better through my 5,000 albums with a wireless mouse and keyboard than with a wheel that for the moment only showed us CDcovers..how will you navigate through artists, or playslits, when they scroll?Covers are easy to spot at high speed when you turn the wheel, not names..anyway, going back to the price "issue", indeed it doesn"t do enough for me compared to BeoPort. I won't use the MOTS feature, since I always play tracks in album order..that's how it was recorded.

Had BeoMaster 5 integrated a BeoLink wireless transmitter for link rooms, wi-fi as standard between BeoSound and BeoMaster, and wi-fi as well for the Internet connection, and HDMI output for a single connection to my BeoVision 7, maybe I would have considered the purchase..

The other brands are 2 times expencive,and the only thing they offer is......Music

Digital music sound's better dan cd.

I'm not talking about mp3!!!!  lossless is the way to go!