After a day of computers, meetings, clients, complex tittle tattle I yearn for the simple things in life: smile from my 9 month daughter, a glass of Johnnie Walker Black, a log fire and Beethoven. Times have moved on though and the world of streaming has definitely embedded itself for better or for worse. I never got on with the Beosound 5 but it was still a fairly simple product after my Beosound 9000. I am rather worried by all this talk of streaming and a year of researching has done little to abate my fears. There's something rather seductive about streaming from a NAS but I have yet to see a streamer that has the aesthetic beauty and simplicity of the old Beosound 3200 or Beocenter 9500. The Essence doesn't excite me and after what was for me a failed attempt with the Besound 5 I am entertaining a 'retrograde step' and buying one of the older Beocenter beauties and staying with CDs. All this talk on forums of "you need to assign a static IP and reconfigure your firewall and if it keeps dropping them check your LAN...or change your router for conflicts with...TCPIPPPP settings do dah" is far from simple gestalt of B&O or am I a prematurely ageing dinosaur in my 30s?Have you made a simple and happy move to a streaming product?Do any of you use older B&O gear with the more recent active Beolabs and has it been a happy marriage?
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Streaming or CD? Old and new side by side.
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Hi,
1: the upcoming BeoSound Moment is supposed to solve all your problems!
2: I did not 'move to a streaming product' - I extended my posibilities for access to music using a streaming product.
Means: in addition to playing my CD's/SACD's/PureAudioBluRay's, I have access to what I have on my NAS drive and to Music Services (Spotify, WiMP HiFI). I use a Playmaker and an iPad (and my local network).
3: I would certainly call my BM4500/CD4500 'older gear' - but the Master with the Playmaker (connected to the unused A-Tape port) is all that I actually need to allow the above*.
My speakers aren't the newest either, but surely they are active. In addition I have access to all sources in a couple of link rooms..
It was never 'Streaming or CD' to me - old and new live happily side by side in my case, when it comes to listening to music.
*OK - my BluRay player is used for the PureAudioBluRay's and the Concert/Live BR's/DVD's.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
am I a prematurely ageing dinosaur in my 30s?
Are you in the 'where has the magic gone' zone.?
I enjoy the whole process of selecting a cd and the visual impact of these systems in a room (and the listening bit)
I have not had the occasion or need to even try streaming.
What colour slippers did you get ?🙂
My B&O Icons:
The by far easiest solutions for those problems is Sonos! Installation is nearly foolproof and you don't have to hassle with technical things. It MIGHT be required to config your NAS -depending on type and software - but that's all.
Connect a ZP90 or an older ZP90 to your B&O and you can use many devices (smartphone, tablet, computer...) to control the Sonos stuff. The devices even have AUX-in ports for connecting 3rd party sources.
The Beosound Essence could be so much more... but B&O still doesn't seem to have the required software skills.
The by far easiest solutions for those problems is Sonos! Installation is nearly foolproof and you don't have to hassle with technical things.
Using Sonos since years (with Beosound 9000, 3000, Beocenter 9300 etc).
"Best of both worlds"!!
You can even use Spotify, Deezer etc. with it..
Ralf
My B&O Icons:
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture
HiI am totally satisfied by my beosound 5 combined with the mlgw. I used it after my beosound 9000 and had no regret. Glad to see that b&o made updates (spotify, cd ripper, update of the webpanel control of the mlgw).Since i have installed the shairport4w on it. It's a pleasure to send music with airplay.It is also a beautiful product wall mounted.It doesn't prevent me to buy some old stuff, recently a white beogram 7000, a beocenter 9500 for their beauty.
I have a Mac Mini playing 7k+ songs on constant shuffle from tape 2 of my BS5000. For critical listening, I listen to LP or cd directly. If I am very lazy, I will call up a favorite song or album using the remote app on one of my iDevices. The joy of this whole setup, is I can listen to and control my music from any of 4 rooms in my house using the MCL82 link capability. To extend it even further, I use airplay to send my iTunes playlist to the ATV connected to the BV Avant US in my bedroom. So I would have to say I found peace with all of the various music sources in my house.
I sometimes feel streaming takes my music pleasure back to the days when I listened to Radio Luxembourg on MW... my favourite song just starts and then bingo I loose signal....
I to gain a simplistic pleasure either with a good coffee or cold beer physically selecting an album admiring the artwork and enjoying the pleasures of the music, personally i like this journey.
But then I like B&O which is not everyones cup of tea and maybe I mumble too much in the supermarket ...
I blame it on being brought up on Star Trek
I have a bs5 and I mostly listen to my cd there. Sometimes I use Spotify but very seldom. I use Spotify for some playlist. That's all. But the bs5 made me listen more to cd than before.
I use a computer to download the music on my BS5.
After that, i shut my laptop down, stand up, feel the delight of the aluminium wheel to choose the music i want to listen and... let MOTS play 😳
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