Hi Luke - welcome to Beoworld. You'll find us a friendly bunch (hopefully)🙂

Please feel free to post any questions you have regarding your proposed setup, we have folk here who have owned B&O since the days of wax cylinders and when you got a free Jack Russell with the puchase of each new gramaphone😂

There is a wealth of knowledge here for you to tap, from professional to enthusiast, all more than willing to help.

Enjoy!

Welcome,

Jack Russell ok, but why not a Basset Hound to?

Edde

I got the Basset Hound! Didn't come with a Beogram though! About to go for a walk so will begin the task of waking him up!!

In response to the OP, the Beolab 5 is a superb speaker and will work with almost any make of system. Obviously there are advantages to being all B&O from an operations point of view but you will need to decide what you want your system to do for you. Do you want to store your music digitally for instance?

Hi and welcome, Luke.

I hope you enjoy the forum and your new B&O toys. 😐

Whoops it appears I was mistaken, it wasn't a Jack russel but a Fox Terrier!

Thanks everyone. 

I'm not sure how we will store the music. At the moment everything goes over iTunes. So if we want good music we usually play from the CD direct. It just has a much better sound and sometimes the network has problems from interference. Microwaves etc.

I really like the look of BeoCentre 2 with the DVD and it seems we can get them from a good price in the UK now that the Swiss Franc is so high against the pound. I just bought a BeoCom 2(used online) for 500 swiss francs and will probably pick up a Beocom 6000 from the dealer new. Hopefully the phone comes this week... ( i forgot to check whether it would be compatible with ISDN )

So we have been kind of going nuts looking at all the options... but I think we need to just start focusing on one thing at a time. Maybe 1 purchase every month for the rest of the year hahaha

Luke

I have a BC2 and it is very good. However I still hanker after a Beosound 9000 as I would probably get a Blu-ray player these days and the BC2 is not going to be upgraded. The disadvantage of CDs is that one has to manually enter the information into the BC2 - iTunes collects the information automatically. Store your music at a high bit rate or using a lossless format and you will have a much more veratile system. If I did not have what I have already, I would get a Beosound 5 and Beolab 5s along with a big screen TV.

Go and have a play at your dealer and then decide - you don't have to buy from him! Although he may well offer you a discount if you mention how much less you could get the same equipment for.

OK, shoot me down in flames if Im lost, but is it not an advantage with a digital out if you're connecting it to BL5's?

And feel free to throw me up in the air for another shot, but I believe the only B&O CD with this is BS9000 and BeoGram CD7000?

/Daniel (hiding under the table)

Oh, just remembered my new avatar.

Come and get me, boys! 😜