sorenfelden wrote:

To my knowledge, the Encore doesn't have ML and never will - it is being outfazed. But I certainly hope you're right about the possibility to integrate, but I guess it will be through Beonet. Just wondering whether Beonet will be compatible with current TVs......

Sorry, by no ML I mean that it is not possible to connect it to existing B&O equipment at launch but it will be possible eventually.

/Ehlerz

Wire 2 Cat7 runs to the location where you'd want the BeoSound 5 head unit. Also, don't get the Encore yet.

Sorry Sorensen to hijack your thread. I am in your same situation patiently waiting to know more about the BS5 encore and try to figure out if it is a good fit for me.

TripEnglish wrote:

Wire 2 Cat7 runs to the location where you'd want the BeoSound 5 head unit. Also, don't get the Encore yet.

Hi Trip,

You are a smooth operator. I like how you peel the news little by little like an onion 🤒.

Could you elaborate a little bit more why to wait. Thanks

I'm sorry. I wasn't attempting to be coy. I was commenting very specifically on the OP's situation, where clearly an ML connection is needed. The BeoSound 5 proper is the best solution as the Encore is not an ML product. Essentially all the information needed for a good decision has been discussed on these boards at length. There are no more secrets forthcoming. 

But a quick summary for those who don't pay attention:

- The Encore is the first true NetLink product with the upgraded chassis. 

- This means that while it seems lonely and unconnected today, it is simply the first in a new family. Someone has to be first, eh?

- A NetLink to MasterLink converter is at least a year away. 

- The BeoSound 5 w/ BeoMaster 5 will continue on as well and become NetLink capable, but otherwise remain more or less the same. 

- This means the two variants will coexist now and into the future as B&O feel that we should provide the best option for a centralized storage and not force clients into a 3rd party NAS, though that is an option.

- No matter which variant you buy, you're not really setting yourself up for future incompatibility so buy what suits you now.

- For 9 out of 10 people that will probably be the BeoSound 5.

Trip, when you say :

" we should provide the best option for a centralized storage... ",

do you think that in the future, B&O could develop a " full " centralize storage for Audio AND Video, a sort of " B&O Kaleidescape " ?

I know there is the DRM problem for the copy of DVD and Blu-Ray on a hard drive but it would be very cool to get a full B&O MediaCenter...

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I'm hoping for a BV8-40 as well. I need at least 3 HDMI. And it would be good if the screen was 200 hz

The US spec BV8 has 3 HDMI (I've seen them with my own eyes 😉 ).  Not sure about the screen speed.  UK/EU can't be too far behind, I would think...

Stan

the BV8 40" always had 3 HDMIs but in europe one is occupied for the tuner I bleive.

Anyhow not to take this off topic, I am thinking how the Encore will work in my current system.

If I connect it through aux and then be able to use the other remote functions like start stop forward etc that would be acceptable.

What would be funky is, if I would have to switch to AUX to adjust volume and then to n-music to use the other remote functions.

With the Beo 5 I can see that this issue doesn't exist but with Beo 4 this is what I have now and it is annoying.

Trip, as I sit here listening to Jordi Savall's "L' Orfeo " on our M-L Beosound 3200, I see a Danish supplier now online selling something interesting.

Under B&O related,  the vendor is offering an M-L cable with the B&O connections, and what he describes as another for M-L to CAT 7 specifically for " Encore applications. "

The latter is one cable with M-L connection at one end, and a CAT 7 at the other, in multiple lengths.

Any helpful thought ?

Hello Trip,

I actually in the same situation as sorenfelden, namely we finishing our interior in the coming weeks. In the living room we have foreseen the BV10-46 and the Beomaster 5 with Beosound5.

The beomaster 5 will be  hidden in a cupboard under the tv and the beosound 5 on a wall bracket. The Encore does not interest me as such but the capabililties of the new Beonet might.

In order to be futureproof,  do I have to run  the two CAT7 cables explicetely to the head-unit Beosound 5 (which would mean I have to open the wall once more (but rather now then after painting)) or does it suffice to have the CAT 7 wires run to the Beomaster 5 (which would be much easier) ?

In my understanding the Beosound 5 is just the graphical interface for the beomaster 5, no ?

Many thanks for your advice

Frederic