4 !

I use an APTX bluetooth receiver to stream the music.

BeoGreg wrote:

Have you noticed that Mr Geoff answered # 5 : ie, he as non B & O speaker(s) !

I wondered if anyone would catch that. 😳

My non-B&O loudspeakers are a pair of custom made units - designed, built, and tuned by me. I have some friends that know a thing or two about how to make a loudspeaker, so I had a little help - mostly with programming the DSP.

My dad was a carpentry instructor - so I know my way around a table saw and some veneer.

Cheers

-g

Amazone wrote:

0 beolab 8000 not connected to anything

This is the most interesting answer so far. I've heard legends of people like you who buy 8000's just for the looks - and never plug them into an audio source. :-)

Cheers

-geoff

3 in various guises over the years. Currently BM5/BS5 with BL18s.

BeoGreg wrote:

# 3 only for me (BL 8000/BS 9000)

 

Have you noticed that Mr Geoff answered # 5 : ie, he as non B & O speaker(s) !

Not surprised - always wise to listen to the competition. And B&O does not have the monopoly on good sound. 3&5 for me too!!

V1 and Beosystem 7000 connected to Beolab 8000 using a Bosscom power link switch.

Hybrid of 3 and 4...

I have two setups worth mentioning here: one with BL3 and one with BL8000 (soon to be replaced with BL9 or BL20).

I have been considering a BS5. I love that you can operate it directly (unlike most players, it does not require a wifi remote so I could turn off the wifi and preserve the brain of my baby). But I hate the way you have to browse your music library (no genre option, very constrained view options, very unpractical for very large libraries), so it is an absolute no-go for me.

Therefore in both cases I use:

- a MacBook Pro playing lossless files (controlled with the Remote app on iDevice when baby is not home)

- a USB DAC (a Halide Design DAC HD and soon a Naim DAC V1)

- a Beomaster 7000 in order to use PowerLink connections (as line connections tend to cause issues in my experience). This also gives me the opportunity to fine-tune the volume and the bass-treble-balance with a Beolink 1000 (as DACs don't do that and sound settings on the Mac degrade the signal), but unfortunately it adds a (vintage) step in the signal chain.

All in all both setups work perfectly. But I would love:

- either a revised BS5 that can still be operated directly but with better navigation (but B&O has not been listening to the complaints of many customers for several years: a genre option should not be that difficult, right?)

- or an integrated B&O USB DAC + preamp (with PowerLink connections, analogue volume control + sound settings, IR remote volume control, and a wifi remote which would ideally combine volume control and library browsing when baby is not home).

I hope someone is listening...

Thanks for reading 🙂

Geoff Martin wrote:

This is the most interesting answer so far. I've heard legends of people like you who buy 8000's just for the looks - and never plug them into an audio source. :-)

Cheers

-geoff