go to the B&o site and do a search "Bosound 5 encore"

Carolpa wrote:

go to the B&o site and do a search "Bosound 5 encore"

Thanks for the tip! I searched for "encore" (being lazy 😂) and got these hits, most of which lead to little vignette movie clips promoting features of the Encore seemingly with Beolab 3s as a focus - I took a screenshot of the Airplay video which highlights the use of Apple's Remore software (I think) and an Apple Airport Express (little white box low down on the wall):

Encore - Audio
BeoSound 5 Encore. A digital music player that connects to hard disks, media servers, iPhones etc.

Encore - Airplay - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Airport Express

Encore - Bluetooth - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Bluetooth

Encore - HDD - Devices


Encore - Headphones - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Headphones

Encore - MP3 - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - MP3

Encore - NAS - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - NAS

Encore - Net radio - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Net Radio

Encore - USB - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - USB

Carolpa wrote:

go to the B&o site and do a search "Bosound 5 encore"

Thanks for the tip! I searched for "encore" (being lazy 😂) and got these hits, most of which lead to little vignette movie clips (the first leads to an email newsletter registration form) promoting features of the Encore seemingly with Beolab 3s as a focus - I took a screenshot of the Airplay video which highlights the use of Apple's Remore software (I think) and an Apple Airport Express (little white box low down on the wall (i.e. Airplay is not native to the Encore)):

BeoSound 5 Encore - Audio
BeoSound 5 Encore. A digital music player that connects to hard disks, media servers, iPhones etc.

BeoSound 5 Encore - Airplay - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Airport Express

BeoSound 5 Encore - Bluetooth - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Bluetooth

BeoSound 5 Encore - HDD - Devices


BeoSound 5 Encore - Headphones - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Headphones

BeoSound 5 Encore - MP3 - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - MP3

BeoSound 5 Encore - NAS - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - NAS

BeoSound 5 Encore - Net radio - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - Net Radio

BeoSound 5 Encore - USB - Devices
BeoSound 5 Encore - USB

Posted twice because the first post with all its links ended up on the moderator's queue !

Couldn't they have built AirPlay support in to the Encore? If B&W can do it for the far cheaper Zeppelin, surely B&O can include this in the Encore?

@Moxxey : totally agree with you on that : one has to buy an Airport Express to have AirPlay, but the worst thing of all is that as the Beosound 5 Encore hasn't got a digital input, by doing this, you use the cheap low quality DAC of the Airport Express. Sad.

Maybe they decided to directly add the function (and pay 100$ to Apple...) only on the BS5 and not the Encore, in order to give more features to the more expensive system.

mbee wrote:

Maybe they decided to directly add the function (and pay 100$ to Apple...) only on the BS5 and not the Encore, in order to give more features to the more expensive system.

Does the BS5 proper actually have Airplay??

No, the Beosound 5 doesn't have Airplay. But no hardware limitation avoids it as the Beomaster 5 is simply a PC (in fact, the Airplay key has been cracked, so unofficially, any PC can be an Airplay speaker). The only thing to do is to give $100 to Apple for each Airplay product sold. And that's a shame (too exepensive for such a simple technology). But if B&O gave Airplay as an option, I would prefer to spend $100-150 on an in-built airplay option (better integration, and above all Beosound DAC)

I'm going to go against the flow here and say I'd rather airplay wasn't built in, fo the same reason I'd rather use a seperate blu-ray player on a BV7.

A BS5, even in encore form, is a big investment and something you will want to keep for years.  I'd rather keep the airport seperate, so that when Apple update at some point in the future in a bid to force everyone to buy new kit, I just unplug the airport, and plug in a new one.

@rednik : as I wrote before, Airplay has NOTHING hardware related : for a Beosound 5, it is just some lines of code in the software. 

B&O has just added DLNA support (in order to "see" NAS drives and other things such as smartphones) on the BS5. They can do the same with airplay, via a software update. The only issue is the Apple license.