The connections at the rear...  You need to remove the plastic cover to get to them of course - they aren't on display.

Inside of the rear cover. Note the 'service' connector..  🤔

What a shame the remote doesn't sit in the unit as the main control... on second thoughts, great until you lose it!

Anyway, the thing could grow on me, shame about the shortcomings mentioned above as they seem like such simple things for B&O to implement, especially source selection! However, someone mentioned the lack of display being a letdown. Maybe B&O could have offered a retro unit to sit in the dock... or the iphone display itself. Pointless of course without source selection or ML though..!?

No other 'tech journalist' bothered to casually rip off the fret to see what was underneath, so i duly obliged after they had all gone home. Bass drivers bigger than BeoLab 4000 - probably a similar size to BeoLab 3 drivers from memory (i'm at home now staring at my BeoLab 3's...)

That tweeter must be a new one, unique to the BeoSound 8 - I've never heard a non-ALT B&O speaker sound like that before !!!

Wonder how the sound quality compares to a BeoSound 1 and the BeoLab 4's ?

Hi Lee,

WOW you are making the sound quality aspect of this sound really amazing! Especially as you have those amazing but shockingly expensive BeoLab 3s!

So what do you reckon of the quality of iTunes downloads that I buy at 256kpbs? I tend to rip my CDs at 320kpbs as I couldn't hear the difference between that and Apple Lossless (maybe I could if I was using BeoLab3s?)  Will the 256kpbs still sound fab on the BS8?

9 LEE wrote:

casually rip off the fret

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Got to be the "Phrase of the week"!

WOW...we allready had a BS8 at work :-)

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Ehlerz wrote:

WOW...we allready had a BS8 at work :-)

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Looking back at the real BS8, I'm slightly annoyed at the support thingy on the top, which doesn't seem to be detachable.

Sure the unit is a dock, and it won't show when used as such - but I have a feeling that these will be still around and in other use for a lot longer than any of the iWhatevers it currently can accept.