The beosound 1 has been discontinued? 

I literally cannot keep these in stock. We're selling as many as we can make. So I think that the "want" factor is alive and well out there in the real world. 

And it does work with the Beo4

Had a quick play yesterday - sounds great and I had no problem with build quality. As fas as I can see, the only problem to start with was supply. As Trip says, they seem to just walk out of the stores!

Regarding the succesful sales B&o will see themselves confirmed this is the right way to go. As a comercial business, making money is a primary objective for B&o.

Playing an iPod on the Beosound 8, soundwise you're dependend upon the quality of DAC in the iPod, or am I wrong? (apart from the codec ofcourse) 

Sound is of course one of the subjective things but personally i think the sound spectrum of BS8 is quite thin compared to other docks. It was not the quality i would have expected from B&O, even if it's only an iPod dock.

Bigger failure IMHO is that you cannot control everything from the BS8, you need to go between the player and Beosound. I asked about this from 2 dealers here in finland and the first one explained that B&O didn't get some kind of license from Apple (?) to do a rotary control. The other dealer told me that B&O wasn't able to manufacture rotary control up to their standards with this schedule...? Both explanations sounded so absurd i wasn't able to comment them in either of the situations.

If the BS8 remote were available as an independent product sold without anything else, i'd vote it as the worst B&O product so far.

BS8 is nice looking though. :)

-Olli

redfresnel wrote:

the first one explained that B&O didn't get some kind of license from Apple (?) to do a rotary control.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Apple had managed to patent a rotary control, perhaps in a limited context for this purpose. After that, it's a question of licensing, and how much extra would you like the BS8 to cost to have one? 😁

As much as it'd take for being able to control everything from BS8.

jc wrote:

Playing an iPod on the Beosound 8, soundwise you're dependend upon the quality of DAC in the iPod, or am I wrong? (apart from the codec ofcourse) 

Actually yes. The BeoSound 8 is one of the few products that's taking the output from the digital pins and using our own DAC. It's one of the advantages of some higher end docks.