Hi Michael,

Its not a bad idea, I was thinking stereo but for what you can get the 5´s for these days, 4 in surround would be cool. We are moving into a new build so ill see the actual living room some time in the summer. Will make a decision then 🙂 

If its any consolation and I have mentioned this on the forum before, when I bought my 20s which were an upgrade from 9s, I bought a connection hub and every time I triggered spotify or a samsung tv app I got a massive static kickback noice. It was really loud!

Anyway, took it back to the shop and they said it was a fault with my network, stood my ground, eventually headquarters confirmed it was a known fault. They offered a refund or said try the essence, went with essence (mk2) and it was much better but still did it a little a bit. After about a year and several updates it did not do it at all.

It was a really annoying experience and kind of soured the upgrade from the 9´s for a while. I think in general that´s just how B&O role, there´s almost too much tech in their speakers for them to reasonably handle with current resources. They do seem to fix it eventually but sometime they just issue end of life.....I definitely understand people who prefer to stick with the older products.

Good luck with 50´s! Look forward to the next podcast!

@ Ammier

Was that the s8 connection hub? if so that's very unfortunate, because I was thinking in the back of my head that you could always get one of those, if your tv doesn't have a surround processor, and have 4x bl5 just in stereo. that still would've been an awesome setup :p

Your experience sounds very similar to mine unfortunately as in ''it's the customers fault until we find out it's our fault all along''. I don't remember it ever being like this before and I don't think it's a good long term strategy.

I still don't understand the idea of making and selling products that they themselves don't fully understand. They must know themselves what their resources are, so that is a real head scratcher to me. I don't mind that they improve existing products, I don't even mind helping them in the process, but if I am basically a beta tester at this point I don't feel it's fair to pay full price.

We'll have a good show again on Sunday (7pm Amsterdam time :p), if you or anybody else has any more questions and or ideas feel free to let us know! Thanks for watching :D

@ Ammier

Was that the s8 connection hub? if so that's very unfortunate, because I was thinking in the back of my head that you could always get one of those, if your tv doesn't have a surround processor, and have 4x bl5 just in stereo. that still would've been an awesome setup :p

Your experience sounds very similar to mine unfortunately as in ''it's the customers fault until we find out it's our fault all along''. I don't remember it ever being like this before and I don't think it's a good long term strategy.

I still don't understand the idea of making and selling products that they themselves don't fully understand. They must know themselves what their resources are, so that is a real head scratcher to me. I don't mind that they improve existing products, I don't even mind helping them in the process, but if I am basically a beta tester at this point I don't feel it's fair to pay full price.

We'll have a good show again on Sunday (7pm Amsterdam time :p), if you or anybody else has any more questions and or ideas feel free to let us know! Thanks for watching :D

Hi,

i was given advice that with a Beosystem 3, a beosound 5/beomaster5 and a beocentre 2 in the main room, with other link rooms, I should set the options as BS3 opt 2, BS5/BM5 opt 5, BC2 opt 0. 

That didn’t work as I wasn’t getting sound out of the BS5/BM5 and repeat keypresses on the IR - I suspect that it was misunderstood that all three units were in the main room. setting BS5/BM5 to opt 1 works, but no sound is sent. I suspect the options are right, but is it possibly because I need to join a couple of ML connections or something? I think I’m nearly there, but it is puzzling why I’m getting no sound out from the BS5/BM5 in either the link rooms or main room - though the sources are selected correctly and the BC2 is showing the metadata. The BC3 and BS3 are working fine...

Thanks - I'd appreciate that. BTW, the BC5BM5 works if the BC2 is not connected to ML. In both the main room and the link rooms.