Why I can not write post to Alex? What that mean:

Alex wrote:

I understand why B&O have done this, but what is worrying is that this leaves a lot of the B&O customers no option but to listen to MP3 through their systems (BeoSound 5 still doesn't support Apple Lossless).

MP3 is not proper sound - it's an insult to your ears. Anybody who spending more than a few hundred pounds on a sound system should not be listening to it. The way MP3 works to compress your music is quite horrific, and I can't believe it's become so widespread...

What is wrong with FLAC?

alenvprekrsku, your posts got caught in the automatic spam filter because it had too many
repeats of the same word, line or phrase. In this case, I think it was because "MP3" was mentioned
no less than 4 times in a very short message. To the filter that could look as spam.
The following tries were probably seen as double postings.

Martin
Beoworld moderator

Thank god. The BC2 is a dog. The BS1 sounds awful. The 9000 is starting to look a bit tired in my opinion. Maybe these will force the company to start bringing some innovative, modern products to the market.

Official B&o-website has dropped beosound 3200 and BS1, Beosound 9000 and Beocenter 2 are still displayed.

If they will be removed from the site, not much is left, it is going to be very lonely for the Beosound 5... not a impressive product line under the "Audio" section.  

What is wrong with FLAC?

Nothing🙂

Dude1 wrote:

Thank god. The BC2 is a dog. The BS1 sounds awful. The 9000 is starting to look a bit tired in my opinion. Maybe these will force the company to start bringing some innovative, modern products to the market.

I think your analysis is correct but what innovative modern product will there be?  It is really odd there has been no announcement of any new player of any type except Beosound 8.  I suppose they might think a music player that plays music from Apple's new iCloud is innovative and that's probably true.  However who wants to listen to 256 KbPS music on a Beolab 9 or Beolab 5?  Although I have an iPhone4 and an iPad2, I have no need for a Beosound 8 or anything like it.  I guess I'll save my money and wait until next year.

As an owner of a Beosound 5, I am using it more but it is still clumsy to use.  Where is the two way Beo6? 

The BeoCenter 2 definitely should have been updated with blu-ray. As the cost of blu-ray players can now easily be found for around $100 USD, blu-ray has become more common. Since every blu-ray player can also play DVD, that makes the BeoCenter 2 redundant in home theater setups. I believe that in the early days of blu-ray, the excuse by B&O was that the drive mechanism would be too large and/or noisy, but with the advances in technology, modern blu-ray players are extraordinarily thin and quiet. Also, the omission of HDMI and upscaling on the BeoCenter 2 was unforgivable. Moreover, most current blu-ray players are internet tv enabled to include access to Netflix and Hulu. The BeoCenter 2 was clearly a perfect example of how B&O should have been making regular technological updates for this iconic design. Particularly to justify the price.

Alex wrote:

I understand why B&O have done this, but what is worrying is that this leaves a lot of the B&O customers no option but to listen to MP3 through their systems (BeoSound 5 still doesn't support Apple Lossless).

While it is true the BS5 does not support Apple Lossless, it does support FLAC and lossless WMA so to say we BS5 owners have "no option but to listen to MP3" is certainly not true.  As a prior poster posted, "what's wrong with FLAC?  Nothing"... except it doesn't play in my iPod... so go cry to Apple... not that they'll listen...

For me, FLAC is the way to go for ripping or downloading.  Using Max, you can rip CD and store in FLAC one place, and shoot whatever format you need directly to iTunes at the same time.  Use BeoConnect to send FLAC files over to BeoSound 5.  Once you get the rhythm, it is pretty easy.