jarnim wrote:
What I do not understand is: why was B&O unable to deliver a Beosound 8 with Airplay capabilty the moment the Beolit 12 came out!!? To me, that's VERY frustrating, because I would much rather get the Beosound 8, however, I do now want to sacrifice on Airplay possiblities. Yes, I do know about the Airport Express, but ever since I got a B&W Zeppelin Air I am spoiled... (just wish it had the B&O quality of sound to it).
I have tried a 12 and various other airplay speakers. Regardless of sound, cost, looks, the requirement to boot the things up every time I want to listen to music in the kitchen means I won't buy one. Same applies when they launch an air version of bs8, the technology is just a bit pants in that regard.
However, a BeoSound 8 with a seperate airport express is the perfect solution for me. It wakes up via the phono inputs as soon as I select the airport express in AirPlay. Thebs8 goes to sleep when not in use, but the airport, and so the airplay decide is always on. The fact that I can run a 5m cable between the devices means the bs8 lives in a corner, surrounded by dect phones and other sources of wifi badness, but works faultlessly as the airport is located in a more wifi friendly location.
I just don't get the need to have everything built in, it often works better, and gives better upgrade options.
