That seems to be a nasty story.

Not what you’d expect from a B&O store.

Discontinoued or not, you can easily get the S8 set and also the hub seperately in Denmark.

I have have also seen these on Amazon.de.

You did not, however write anything about your origin.

You should maybe talk to that dealer again with these informations and also show him, where you can purchase these/the hub.

The hub is esential for your usercase - reading your post, I can’t help thinking that he sold you something, that you did not order!

If you don’t want to deal with him anymore, you might buy it online.

P.S. there was never a S8 set in the 4.1 configuration - that was called BeoLab 14.4.1...

....these were never sold with the hub, but were intended for use with a B&O tv (the speaker there acting as the center channel/the 5).

Which colour is your sub?

By the way - welcome to Beoworld

MM

Thankyou for your reply.  I am in Australia.  Do you know how the volume of the connection hub works. i.e would it be able to quiten the signal from the set top box and will it be able to control volume for my apple tv (3rd gen).

from what I can tell, if I connect the set top box and apple tv to the connection hub those devices will basically just deliver a set level of signal and the connection hub will then be able to control the volume either up or down, is this how it functions? 

I can only see one youtube video showing set up, by a guy from b&o Manchester, and on that he connects a Samsung tv via toslink (which I'm guessing would supply a set signal) and he then can operate the volume.

I am sure that what ive got is s8, looks exactly like the pictures etc, so are you saying that there are no third generation and that the second generation has no extra speaker connections (rear and center).

Thank you once again.

Indeed there were different versions of the S8 - can’t say anything about version numbers.

The S8 was black - the BL14 versions were white and ere not sold with the hub as they were intented for use with a B&O tv.

Some (of the 8’s) had only the two input ports, some had more (for surround channels) - some of these active and some inactive.

Quite confusing, indeed.

You can - of course - use your version as is as you only need 2 channel/stereo.

But you would need the hub, too.

And you would have to connect the toslink output of the tv to the hub (and the hub to the S8).

All your sources must be connected to the tv in order to have all sound routed to the S8 set.

Now, you don’t mention the brand of your tv - I am not sure for which tv’s ‘the remote control learning feature’ of the hub works.

This is something that your dealer should (!) have been able to help with.

Maybe someone else in the forum know which brands are supported!

MM

In the USA, the original S8 came without a hub, and the current version comes with.  You can see the difference at (for example) amazon.com, enter ASIN numbers B00MOUNIZI (1st gen) & B01B8X14LG (2nd gen).   The product description for the 2nd gen says how the hub works.

thanks for your reply. On my invoice the product details are 1623922 beoplay s8 MC3 Black, any idea on what all that means?

Generally, look on your box for the white label, and the large numbers should match the model # on the invoice.  The USA versions were 1623722 for the original one, and 1624722 for the newer one with the hub.  So my NON-expert guess is that yours is a first version, and the 7 vs. 9 is US vs. AU power/plug?  Don't know about "MC3".

thanks for the info, yes i believe that i have a first generation as well,  However, have spoken to the dealer again today and he swears blind that they are a "third generation" and aren't supplied with a connection hub and now wants to charge me for one.  I pointed out that no one else in the world has heard of "third generation" s8 but he still believes that there are.