Seanie_230 wrote:

Any thoughts, what have you all done for your offices?

I have my Edge in the office and it's played...loud! 😁

I think a Beoplay M5 would work well. It also has the ability to use Beolink for multi room built in and sounds good. I have one in my office for my iMac. Another much more expensive option is to use a Balance. The Balance reminds me of a high-end BP M5!

I think the Edge or even A9 would be awesome in an office. 

Lab 4s would be great for audio quality. But a pair of A1 in stereo mode would also be great and you can connect them using the USB ports on your computer.

Back in the day, I used to have my Beolab 11 and Beolab 6000 connected using the line out on my iMac and it looked and sounded great. I angled the speakers to my chair and each tower was next to the desk - so no clutter. The only issue was that between the iMac, BL 11 and 2x BL 6000 I had a power strip and hiding all the cables was the main challenge. 

I have a pair of M3's connected through their line IN. The autosense does indeed miss some basic windows sounds (but I turned down those anyway, since they annoy me more than anything).

They are great for music, the occasional video and would also be good for calls (once they are up, they stay on for some time).

Since this 'office' is in an open plan connected to my living room, the great thing is I can join the speakers in on the ambient music playing in the main system when having guests over, everything playing in sync. In my case, this is done through airplay, but the beolink ecosystem will do the same I suppose.

You could use a pair of M5's too (or any other speaker in the single speaker line-up), stereo imaging is done through a 3.5mm jack splitting cable. Mine is from my dead beolab 4 pc set, but Steve @ SH makes those too.

I must say, the beolab 4s did sound good, but the M3s are on another level, they pack a lot more punch. Also, for what I read about the lab 4s, they are a dying breed, the internals are bound to fail (mine did, and the replacement speaker I bought had the same problem too).

Bought a pair of Beolab 4's from Matt.

Now for cables and an essence MK2 in the future

I'm doing something similar at home, started with my M3 on the desk, but the line sense trigger is quite slow and really annoying on a pc, plus the speaker doesn't go loud enough without distorting, so have just bought a 2nd hand beolink active that has the PC input. I'll then be able to connect this to my dock's line out, connect the powerlink out to a spare Passive amp with Q acoustic bookshelf speakers connected. I'll then plug the active into the masterlink which I already have in the room. This will allow me to switch between PC and other NL sources over masterlink though the NL/ML converter and BLGW. Downside with this is that the Beoliving app won't know what the active is playing. A dedicated essence mk2 or core may be the way to go with line sense off, but the active is a much lower cost! 

The line sense is probably the same on the essence as the M3, it drove me mad when it would switch from Tune In to play a ping from windows! I'm actually hoping that the active will mix the PC input and masterlink together to save having to change source, but won't know until its wired up. I think this was how the beoport used to work. Rob.