BeoSound 1 discontinued?

[andy_js]

The BS1 seems to be out of stock everywhere.  Does anyone know if it has been discontinued?  I’m eager to upgrade my gen 1 with a mozart based version but haven’t heard anything to suggest that’s on the way.

[matteventu]

Yes, it’s been officially discontinued a few months ago.

Replacements are the Level and the new A5 – both sound much better than Beosound 1 to be fair, even though in terms of design they’re far less iconic.

[trackbeo]

Beosound 2, almost-equally iconic, was updated with Mozart. (Understood not mentioned in the same breath above, because not battery-powered and 2.5 times more than BS1-gen.1 cost.  But what price beauty… it’s what I would choose except for price, because my BS1 so rarely leaves its AC base.)

[Sandyb]

speaking of price increases, one of the UK B&O retailers has emailed out some of the new prices.

Looks broad, i.e.plenty of products affected, perhaps the whole portfolio subject to “24 to 30%” increase.

The UK Theatre price is up 33% – 7990GBP from 5990GBP.

I wish them the best of luck.

[matteventu]

Sandyb wrote:

speaking of price increases, one of the UK B&O retailers has emailed out some of the new prices. Looks broad, i.e.plenty of products affected, perhaps the whole portfolio subject to “24 to 30%” increase. The UK Theatre price is up 33% – 7990GBP from 5990GBP. I wish them the best of luck.

Even Beoplay headphones?

[Sandyb]

The retailer screenshots I have seen show this : (UK price changes0

Theatre – 5990 GBP to 7990

H95 – 780 up to 880

BR1 – 300 up to 400.

One screenshot says average price increase on the portfolio of 24-30%.

Hard to interpret exactly how they have calculated this figure to be honest.

The 90s are going from 110k euro to 125k euro.

Does seem like an across the board change, of varying %’ages.

[andy_js]

That’s a shame.  I think the BS1 is the perfect kitchen speaker and was looking at buying 2 new ones.  The sound quality wasn’t the best but with its other features I thought it was still quite desirable.  Of course mine was only £930 new which made it quite a bit more palatable.

[Stan]

matteventu wrote:

Yes, it’s been officially discontinued a few months ago.

Replacements are the Level and the new A5 – both sound much better than Beosound 1 to be fair, even though in terms of design they’re far less iconic.

I have to disagree on this point. I tried a BS1 head to head with the Level, and the Level was not that much better to my ears. I know initially, the BS1 was pretty weak, but I believe it got much better sounding as it matured (and B&O upgraded the software). In my testing, yes, the Level sounded better when you were in its not very large “sweet spot”, but otherwise was comparable to the BS1. At least in my kitchen with my ears.  I’ve had one for about 2 years, and I agree it works great in the kitchen.

[BeoMatthew]

Stan wrote:

matteventu wrote:

Yes, it’s been officially discontinued a few months ago. Replacements are the Level and the new A5 – both sound much better than Beosound 1 to be fair, even though in terms of design they’re far less iconic.

I have to disagree on this point. I tried a BS1 head to head with the Level, and the Level was not that much better to my ears. I know initially, the BS1 was pretty weak, but I believe it got much better sounding as it matured (and B&O upgraded the software). In my testing, yes, the Level sounded better when you were in its not very large “sweet spot”, but otherwise was comparable to the BS1. At least in my kitchen with my ears. I’ve had one for about 2 years, and I agree it works great in the kitchen.

It’s funny to read this because while I was still selling B&O I recall not being very impressed with the sound. Sometimes to the point that I hesitated to demo it. Now I own three and I think the sound is really quite good. I wasn’t aware they changed the tuning in firmware updates but it makes sense!

[andy_js]

I bought the BeoSound 1 when it was released without really getting much of a chance to listen to it.  It was the ideal form factor for my use and had Beolink multiroom support so I’d have bought it no matter what.  The first time I used it in my kitchen I was quite let down.  But I do recall several occasions where it sounded noticeably better and it was always after a software update.  The original sound was very muddy.  Now it has a decent amount of clarity.  It’s my most used speaker.

[KathleenC1]

Hello, I have a BeoSound 1 that has been in storage for ten years. It works perfectly. I want to know if I can plug in an iPod or iPod to stream music through. It is a CD /Radio.

Thanks for any help.

[Millemissen]

Hi KathleenC1

Unfortunately B&O has choosen the name of a previous product (your BS1) for a newer product.
This – newer – product has now been discontinued….that is what this thread is about.

Your BS1 was discontinued in 2011, but there are still many of those in use.
So, to answer your question – yes, you can connect ‘an iPod or iPod’.
In fact you can connect anything that has an audio output there….a mobile phone, a bluetooth adapter etc etc.

Please have a look here page 4.

You will need an adapter cable from 5 pin DIN to e.g. minijack.

MM

[Ravsted]

It will also activate AUX input via Beo4 remote.

Press A.MEM or A.TAPE. Mine does at least …

 

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