Beosound 8 Airplay faking :)

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I was upset that I could not use Airplay and I am not about to upgrade the the new deosound just to get it so this is what I did do:

I bought a BT mini receiver (about  $20), plugged it in the BS 8  and voila, I have Airplay. Well almost.  It plays well to about 5m. 

 

This is great! Are you using a 30 pins BT receiver? What is the brand? I've already tried 2 types in the market but just couldn't found work with my Beosound 8.

If money saving is not the biggest part of your 'upgrading' troubles, buy a (second hand) Playmaker.

Plug that (using PL-out via adapter and the PM in fixed line-out) into the line-in of the BS8.

Then you have real AirPlay and a free autosense line-in connection (on the Playmaker) as well.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Yeah. Or use an Airport Express which also would support later gen wifi standards that work generally better in urban settings with wifi congestion.

 

Bluetooth is a bit sound quality degrading.

 

Cheers

JK

 

 

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