It depends, what you want.....

With an ipad you have advantages:

• you can choose your prefered straming services (spotify, tidal, deezer,....), different radio apps,....
• you have all functions in their app

The Moment has restrictions:

• the only streaming service is Deezer
• the only radio service is TuneIn
• some functions have to be done with another device (e.g. changing the radio station order, deleting favourite songs, albums, artists)

BUT

• you have a modern streaming music system separated from any other device in daily use. Your music system is (like in the good old days) your music system and you need no pad to search songs/stations/albums/artists, add songs/stations/...).
• When i say no pad, i mean all kind of apple or android devices, it is quite logical, that the control part of the Moment is a pad.
• just one tab, the music starts
• you can control it with your beoremote
• of course there is an app to control it with your phone or pad too

 

In my eyes the Moment is quite unique, i love this music system, because it is a (more or less) stand alone music system. If you wanna control your music just with your ipad, i don't see many advantages. If you wanna separate your music from the safari browser, your mails, etc..., the Moment is a wonderful device.

 

 

I think this video sums it up perfectly, why the Beosound Moment is totally different and very clever.

https://youtu.be/pdCXwuWv0qE

That's Lyle explaining the original concept of the BS Moment.

MM

Hi G -- what all do you have connected to your BC9300?  I'm certain a Moment is in my future; however, I will use it exclusively for music.  That's actually a lie.  I'll also use TuneIn for listening to the radio broadcast of my games instead of the TV announcers. :)

• Is it possible to delay the Moment's output in case the TV is ahead of the internet broadcast?

Whether or not it is worth the money....  Who knows; I think it will be to me.

To me it sums up in the question "How much am I willing to pay for One Touch Play?"

I think my answer is "quite a lot ".

graemeben wrote:

Hi everyone,

For a while I have been contemplating getting a Moment but I keep reading so many members having issues with it that I talk myself out of it. What are your honest opinions of it? When it is working as it should does it justify the price?  I really like the look of it and the way it operates but it does, at least from what I read here,seem to have had its fair share of problems.

I currently use an iPad for Spotify/iTunes via an Airport express directly connected to my BC9300. This works extremely well without any issues. What would I be gaining from getting a Moment? 

I'm not in any way trying to talk up or down the Moment, just looking for members opinions before I decide either way.

Thanks,

G.

PS I've not, as yet, had a full demo in store of a Moment, only a casual look a while ago when I wasn't really that interested then. But now......

 

I waited 2 years before I thought the Moment was mature enough for me, I would have hated my self, if I bought it and did not use it.

Here is my simple answer to your question.

1. Before the Moment, I had an iPad and AppleTV connected to TV/Beocenter2, I tried a lot to listen to streaming music, but I never got around to it.

2. After the Moment, I listen to streaming(and my old cd's) all the time.

 

The option to just press the moodwheel and the music just goes on, is fantastic, that way I don't need to take a choice on music whenever the song or album stops.

I think it is a very cool product, but only with the 2.x SW. It should be released today.

I will buy an M5 also, so I can use the Multiroom functionality also.

 

 

 

/Weebyx

 

ciosad wrote:

Hi G -- what all do you have connected to your BC9300?  I'm certain a Moment is in my future; however, I will use it exclusively for music.  That's actually a lie.  I'll also use TuneIn for listening to the radio broadcast of my games instead of the TV announcers. :)

 

• Is it possible to delay the Moment's output in case the TV is ahead of the internet broadcast?

 

Whether or not it is worth the money....  Who knows; I think it will be to me.

Hi Ciosad,

I have an Airport express box connected to my 9300. From that I use an iPad for Spotify. It's a shame the moment doesn't include Spotify, as I use that service a lot. The iPad doesn't have remote control whereas the moment does, but I guess you could say the iPad is the remote control. 

I am glad to note no one has commented further on any technical issues which was part of my first post so I am assuming this is not such a great deal. I've read some quite favourable comments which is encouraging. Still haven't decided but will have a real good look at one when I can next get to a store. 

Thanks again everyone.

Graeme.

 

To be honest, I think you should go try it out and be very sure what you are testing - don't assume that it can do X until you have tried it out.

I have one, running the new software. I like it now, BUT it sure felt like a step back from how I used Spotify Connect on my Beoplay A9.

The interface feels claustrophobic at times, especially compared to Spotify on an iPad where you can click on everything and it takes you somewhere that makes sense. If you search on the Moment and find the artist you like, don't expect to be able to click on that artist and go to his/her albums - if you click on the artist name, it will just start playing something from that artist and take you nowhere. You have to swipe down to currently playing to see a list of songs coming up and see what it has selected for you.

And when you're used to having a lot of stuff on screen on an iPad, it seems downright archaic to show three items at a time on the Moment. All that wasted space makes for slooooow scrolling, made worse by the refresh rate on the screen so you can't actually see what's scrolling until it's stationary. Plus for some reason, the lightness of the SoundHeart really bothers me. It feels like it's just an empty box - but that's really nitpicking.

My Jukebox has at least five defective pixels, either dead or on all the time. I think I might have to go back to the dealer on that one, but that was disappointing to see.

For me, the biggest downside is that there's no Spotify Connect. If it had that, I could forgive all the faults because I could just use it like any other B&O product.

 

The positives are the MoodWheel, I really enjoy that much more than I thought, and the easy integration to my FLAC library on a NAS box. Also the fact that you can use your (existing) BeoRemote to control it is really nice.

ThatGuyFromDenmark wrote:

For me, the biggest downside is that there's no Spotify Connect. If it had that, I could forgive all the faults because I could just use it like any other B&O product.

I have heard that Spotify Connect and Chromecast is coming eventually. Not sure when.

 

 

It surprises me that no-one mentiones it's sound quality!

You can easily hear differences between for instance an Airport Express, Gramofon or BS Moment. Both first sound flat, to say sometimes annoying.

And it can be used by anyone in the room and not just used by that person who started with its phone or tablet. What happens when that person leaves  the room?

It's a system which can be used by more than one person in the room. Big practical benefit. If I start annoying music in precense with my daughter, she can take over without handing over my phone or tablet. Or small disadvantage you could say.