Posts by Lanny (archived)
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Beosound 8 quality
in General Discussion & Questions · Dec 21, 2011 06:56I agree. It sounds great.
Apple Time Capsule as media server
in Beo-Mac · Dec 21, 2011 06:50TimeCapsule is not accessable directly by Airport Express. How did you imagine it would work? The way I do it is that I leave my iMac on (screen dimmed), airplay to AE and use the sound plug on it to connect to my BeoSou…
Beosound 8 - sound degradation after an hour
in General Discussion & Questions · Nov 17, 2011 08:38My unit, after about an hour of playing starts to distort the music, or beteer description, starts adding a screeching sound to the play. To fix, I have to turn it off and on. This happens both with iPhone and iPad. Any …
IPAD2 ET BEOSOUND8
in General Discussion & Questions · May 3, 2011 15:47Wait, please. I have it and it is a nightmare. B&O is bound to come up with a fix (I hope not a totally new unit). Also, there are rumors that the next version will have AirPlay built-in.
Beosound 8 and iPad 2
in General Discussion & Questions · May 1, 2011 10:22Not only not a problem, but those who follow security issues had known about it for months before it became a feast for mainstream media. And no special free software was needed, either. If you want to look at the struct…
Beosound 8 and iPad 2
in General Discussion & Questions · Apr 28, 2011 17:38It would have been if I had it. It just arrived.
Beosound 8 and iPad 2
in General Discussion & Questions · Apr 28, 2011 16:13I quote from technical support response We can inform you that iPad 2 is tested for use with BeoSound 8. Furthermore we can inform you that we are working on a solution to make an iPad fit more stable on BeoSound 8. This…
Beosound 8 and iPad 2
in General Discussion & Questions · Apr 28, 2011 00:21Yeah, well, but it is still B&O. When I put in my iPhone, I get AirPlay and stability.
Beosound 8 and iPad 2
in General Discussion & Questions · Apr 27, 2011 17:39I just bought Beosound 8. It has great sound, especially for the higher bit rate music. I do have a couple of observations though: 1) iPad 2 wobbles quite badly - it is too thin for the docking mechanism. I write to Cust…
Proprietory speaker lead
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 2, 2008 11:36Peter: They are 2 pin DIN male and female plugs. You can get them from your dealer as a made up lead. Not sure about suppliers in Canada for just the plugs. Thank you. BTW I am in Prague (having moved from Toronto) 🙂
Proprietory speaker lead
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 2, 2008 08:46These are the ones which have male at the receiver end with flat pins positione like so - | and female at the speaker end with holes like so - |
Proprietory speaker lead
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 2, 2008 07:56During my move, I lost the special speaker wire with the proprietary endings to plug into the 5000 receiver and the B&O speakers. Do you know where I could buy this.
Hello and a B&O 5000 power transforming question
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 2, 2008 07:52You guys were right! Instead of "changer" I bought a real transformer and it now works :-). Stuart, what do you mean by "links"? Is there something insight the uniits where a transformer can be switched? Thank you all fo…
Hello and a B&O 5000 power transforming question
in General Discussion & Questions · Jan 8, 2008 06:44Peter: ... bar the transformer. A non functioning 5000 could prove to be a useful donor! How would one go about finding such a donor ?
Hello and a B&O 5000 power transforming question
in General Discussion & Questions · Jan 7, 2008 16:11Thanks. This is a basic explanation of what a transformer is. I have several. The problem is, IMHO, that the system requires also a very precise draw which my transformers (I have from 50W to 1800W) simply do not provide…
Hello and a B&O 5000 power transforming question
in General Discussion & Questions · Jan 7, 2008 16:07Thank you all for the great responses - just to make sure: I have a Canadian (110V) system and need to connect it to a European 220 current (there is also difference in frquency 50 --> 60 Hz). The system consists of the …
Hello and a B&O 5000 power transforming question
in General Discussion & Questions · Jan 7, 2008 11:09Hello from a new member ... I moved to Prague from Canada. I brought with me a very old and very beautiful B&O 5000 4 component system. While some other equipment I brought works over 220V-->100V transformers, B&O won't.…