Most products with moving parts are rated by duty cycles.

So a consumer printer for example has a lower duty cycle that an office printer.

I would have thought whether it was active or passive the moving parts of a speaker are the same .....

Now it may be that a consumer speaker is expected to only be used for several hours a day, whereas a coffee lounge speaker is expected to do 12+ hours a day.. Where as a concert speaker is expected to do a few hours, but be driven hard to maximum capacity.

It could be the store's people were thinking along these lines when they gave you their advice.

On the other hand, my BeoLab 3s often get many hours of usage on the weekend - however they are idle on most week days except for television work in the evenings :)

Quite a lot Beoworlders use their speakers 'all day long', I am sure.

I see no real problem there - and don't understand the 'concerns' of that shop.

The alternative would be not to have music.

MM

I don't think you would have a problem at all, the s8 will switch on when they detect a signal and switch to standby when they don't have a signal so can't see any problems.

they would be fine connected to your computer at work.

Based on my experience with BeoLab 4000 I would never recommend active speakers for a computer setup  I don't believe they will break down as the shop told, but as stated above, they will switch on and off according to a signal being present or not. This is very very annoying while connected to a computer, which will produce sound when making errors, receiving mails and so on. The speakers will constantly switch on and off, while being too late to actually produce the sound. That's why I switched to Bose speakers at that time, which were actually designed for computer usage. I have no experience with S8 however maybe this behaviour has been corrected somehow. Streaming to some sort of bluetooth/airplay device would be a far better solution in my opinion, maybe with S8 connected to it.

I would never have a set of (active) speakers connected to a PC/Mac without having a USB-DAC in between.

The headphone out of 99% of the computers are way too bad for any of the speakers, I would want to listen to all day long.

USB-DAC's  often can be turned on/off and have a better volumen control, than the internal PC/Mac's have. Regard them as small preamps! You can have them from pretty cheap to very expensive. Worth investing in, if you listen to music all day long. If you invest in a set of B&O speaker, that extra money should not be the problem.

As for sounds from the 'errors' (you mean on a PC 😎), mail notifications etc, this is just a matter of sound settings.

So with a little 'expertice' there is no reason not to choose a set like the S8 for the computer.

Note: the S8 has different input-mode settings.

MM

;-)

Maybe an external DAC is a good solution. Hadn't thought about that yet.

regards,
Joost

I currently use my beolab 14s through a Logitech bluetooth adapter with my phone acting as the volume control and listen to spotify through it, the sound quality is amazing.

Of course that is possible - even if it is not the best of all solutions.

MM

I wonder why the dealers don't provide all these informations.

If I were a dealer - and wanted to sell my products - I surely would.

The S8 is a great set - especially if you consider the price of it.

MM