beolion wrote:

Does anyone know how the product sells?

Not sure about numbers but I don't think too many.

In my view B&O needs to be more forthcoming on what plans it has with BS5/BM5 to give trust and confidence to future buyers.  Also the current ownerbase which is known to B&O via the registration process is undercommunicated to. Have we ever seen a short questionnaire on what next update the ownerbase would like ?

thank you all for your good reviews on the Beosound 5 as I have been toying with the idea of getting this unit.

it would be really good to see other Beoworlders "real life experience" in-depth reviews on other B&O products 💡 

Did you mean five years of crap audio devices? ..

As I see on most of the Beosound 5's, Behind the glass plate is after a few times dust that you can't remove without make the device open. What is this for crap ? You pay a lot and I see only complaints with the motherbord and things like above with the glass plate.

But the design is 100% good ! It looks modern and it is an easy device to use ;) (but the price for this quality... ) 

Salvador, your tagline reveals your thinking.

I have respect for a company that deals with early teethingproblems like B&O did with motherboards some years ago. On top of that, in today's electronic world where you buy directly for the trashcan a few months down the road, five years with a product and constant updates to keep it fresh is quite an achievement. Besides, I have not encountered dust under the glass. 

We bought ours two years ago together with a beolab 9 pair to pilot all the link rooms in our house.

I'm not as positive as other here, I'm sorry. The sound quality of the speakers is extremely well, but the usability of the beosound 5 is below par. I admit it looks good, but at +-5000 euro for a pc running xp you would expect it to be easy/great to use.

The scroll wheel for instance has no use when you want to search for a particular song. Imagine having some classical piece called 'Op. 4 movement IV - Allegro <well known name>. Of course you only know it by the name. In itunes or similar you would just type the first few letters of this name and find it. Not here. I actually have to go into itunes on my phone or mac search, find the complete name, go back to the BS5 and find it by turning the weel endlessly. This could be easily fixed with an app of some sort which lets you build a queue or something (like the sonos app).

MOTS is a joke, it has a strong preference for some songs (no matter which song you start with) and after a while you just know what song is coming.

I tried to alleviate some of the pain buying a Beo6 hoping i could find music with that faster. I know have a very nice looking, useless, slow remote on my cupboard for the price of an iPhone.

Spotify integration is good, at least this lets you create playlists and so easy in the iphone app or on your pc and play them on the bs 5, but again there is no integration with beo6.

Growing up, I always dreamed of having a B&O system, now I regret it, I feel 'tricked'. I hoped they would bring the system to the next level through updates, but they have failed so far.

I agree about MOTS. I have had to remove certain songs from the BM5 as MOTS kept playing them. It should have been designed to limit the number of plays of a song in the various MOTS queues.Sometimes I like MOTS because it does find music you have not listened to recently, but I find the way it seems to include the same songs/artists very annoying.

StUrrock wrote:

I could forgive all the minus points and would adore the unit if only B&O would;

Produce a slick app to control and navigate All music sources.

Build airplay into the unit as standard.

That would be a rather different device!

MM

Millemissen wrote:

That would be a rather different device!

MM

There is a tv - and there is a BV.