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Move the navigator arm to MODE and use the wheel to highlight SETTINGS.

- On BeoSound 5, press:  >>,  <<,   >>,   <<,    GO to activate ‘Service Configuration Menu’

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I think a lot of B&O – although it looks splendid from a distance in my opinion actually ages like everything else. I’ll probably offend a lot of people but there are lots of models which today I would not entertain now but in the day…thought it was the bees-knees.

Aside, for my 100 years…..

 

Childhood Dreams….wall mounted BeoSystem 4000

 

Owned and loved:-

Audio: BeoSound 5 – modified with a zippy HDD – it was not as bad as many have stated.

Loudspeaker: Beolab 5 – I think this put B&O in the “serious” Loudspeaker and amp market

 

 

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AV5,  I remember that as I was getting in to my first major purchase. Again, a legacy TV where the CD-i or CD-Rom outdated it immediately and would have done well if only they adopted or updated to the DVD standard.

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[Disclaimer mode_on] I think first and foremost every B&O user who uses any add-on or third party/non-approved equipment with do so at there own risk and their own risk assessment. [Disclaimer mode_off]

 

Next, I have used a lot of these over the years. The problem they have is they burn-out relatively quickly. However, most are now cheap enough it does not matter too much.

I have used them for travelling with a business laptop more often than anything else. They are compact, easy to breakdown wire-wise and not only can you charge your laptop…..you can power all your mobile gadgets the modern world has to offer.

So with a 100W unit and a 65W power-0draw laptop, my PSU got hot quickly and soon had electronics failure (the PSU – not the laptop)

I now use a 320W unit (same size etc) and it appears far more compliant. So I’m guessing its how the solid-state transformer (or whatever it is) takes wall-mains and knocks it down to a low Amp DC voltage for whatever you are powering.

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In DPL, they go “off ” your wifi network and don’t transmit an IP address like they would if they were in Standalone mode.

Not sure what what that really means technically but I read it as the Theatre and the BL8s have their own hotspot and the Theatre takes care of BL8 updates etc…

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I have the 8s as rears.

This is how I look at it.

1. The Sound. Any of your existing speakers will be great for filling in those rear-channels. I dont get too upset when people demand “all the speakers should be the same…..to balance the sound,,,yah dee yah dee dah”
2. The Sound of the BL8s is very good. I listened to them recently without being tied to the Theatre and though they were exceptional for the size.
3. The Aesthetic. They are the modern B&O book speaker / Stand speaker. There is coherency between the BL28s, the Theatre and/or any modern B&O TV
4. If with the Theatre, the integration is now very good with DPL and the BL8s become an extension of the Theatre rather than a satellite.

If you have the funds and the space, I would not hesitate to get them and retire the other gear elsewhere.

 

 

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Actually, I like the idea of a couple of A1s on a pair of A9-like mini-stands for PC speakers.

How’s the best way to pair it to a PC and keep them charged? BT sound with two USB cables for power or will sound and power be transfer with the USB-C as stereo pair??

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My comments are this.

1. The forum is getting progressively slower in terms of posting turn-over.
2. The forum is more of a letter-writing format than the Discord forum – which is more “chat” – based format. Less dynamic.
3. The opposite of that is Beoworld is easy to find things (if the search engine is improved), where in Discord…its very difficult.
4. The forum itself appears to be a very old Forum system and not in-line with a lot of community forums elsewhere. People cite “the you are the product” and “personal info” (which is covered by laws everywhere)…..yet are all over the Discord site. It like Dad used to say “were not joing a Video (VHS) library….cos then everyone will know we have a Video Player and it will get stolen“. Well maybe, naybe not? But then everyone had one and ours was old and worthless.
5. Too many categories. Compress. Make traffic look as if it is flowing…forcing people to read perhaps what they would never be interested in (i go to General Forum only.)

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Ok, thanks.

i cant unfortunately help you with that. I am aware of sometimes the BC core fails to trigger the Shape (on but mute) from time to time and is cured be hard reboot of both (Shape first).

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Im going to assume this is a BeoConnect Core (Mozart) and not a Beosound Core ( ASE) your talking about?

Additionally, what is the Core connected to? Sources/equipment/Loudspeakers etc?

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The keypad is an all-in-one moulded design with the base-layer being a thin rubberised plastic membrane fused to the buttons. This presses a metal foil on the circuit board to activate control.

I can confirm that the keypads do fail when fatigue sets in.  Mine happened on the diamond/centre “go” button.

I suspect that a similar fatigue may have happened to yours? Its a non-repairable part and (was – in January 2025) a GBP180 fix for a new keypad.

 

 

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Had the same problem earlier myself with the formatting.

I had a similar problem from the otherside – selling a (unknown to me) burnt-in Eclipse 65. Had to do a deal with the Dealer to keep everything on the level.

On one hand…Im happy that I moved from an Eclipse to a Theatre and took the panel (obsolesce – for now or future fault/burn-in) out of the Ownership equation. Even back in late 2022 IIRC, the Theatre was getting up there price-wise and I almost thought the Eclipse was my last Beovision?

Back to the Post. Glad that went well. I have heard anecdotal stories that Dealers can take other panels (oh, and B&O did have some original panels to cover warranty issues only) and graft them on. From what I loosely heard, its more about retro-fitting the C7 for a C9 or CX into the case more than anything else?? Maybe.

This is where B&O really need to pull up their socks. Its history know and Buyer beware but at the time the C7 was a problem panel and B&O knew it. They did very little to warn people, recall or even collaborate on revised software as far as I can ascertain? The STB solution is not cheap but I guess it can get you up and running and not trashing a perfectly good soundbar and stand?

More importantly, this Cradle to Cradle business is less about the Customer having endless repairs on their products I fear….and more about 100% recyclability at the local dump? Im sure we will see when a few PCBs or drivers give-up and there are no spares left (again). Just sign-up for the latest $30k soundbar and swallow it as the cost of doing business?

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I do wish the Owners of this forum would get the post formatting sorted out. Its so hard work

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We just dont know…but I guess we all have a lot of fun guessing?

Question is this…… If B&O sell 1 pair of BL90s a month lets say……and 3 pairs of BL50…….why do a bridge model in between?

You can play 1 to 30 or 1 to 300 etc….but I imagine if B&O sell 30 BL50s a month…..they would be doing very well indeed.

Another possibility is that that the BL90 gets put to grass and placed on “special order” (which it practically is anyway I guess).

You can still buy it but that gives B&O the ability to charge what they like. Then B&O put a bridge product out above the 50 but sub GBP100k. I think it is more likely (in my own mind) that a BL9/20 – class product (less flashy/complicated than 28’s, more performance than 8s, w/integral sub) should be the bridge product?

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I don’t think it has to necessarily be a flagship product.

I also dont think releasing the same old products in a marginally different shade of Woke purple will cut it either.

A new Turntable. Easy enough for B&O to do with minimal R&D and production costs to get up and running. A signature product of theirs over the last 100years and one where the tech is likely not to get outdated in 5 minutes time.

Slightly more controversial would be…what if they re-released the BeoSound Century? Its got the name, the nostalgia for Tape and CD….possibly with a a re-jigged Balance internals. Worse things have happened at sea?

I think a re-release of the BL5 would also not be a bad thing – though I shudder as to the price they will ask. They will also need to ruggedize the chassis to stop the BL5 from killing itself 10years down the line (oh and get that soft-felt paint off the product as well)

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Not sure how well I can answer your enquiry but I’ll give it a try….

1. I DPL BL8s as rears/surrounds. No delay as far as I can ascertain

2. Don’t know about BS Level but assume as it’s Mozart…..it has the same internals as the BL8s…just not the same cabinet or driver size. Neither the less…a modular loudspeaker. So assume BS Level = BL8 for your question

3. I see DPL as an upgrade to WISA in that it assumes firmware control/updates, loudspeaker profile optimisation and arguably, a more secure and robust signal communication between the Master and satellite speaker

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Remove it from your App, factory reset the Halo, charge it for a few hours

introduce it back to the app, see if that is good to go

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Hello,

You say your BL8s are configured as a stereo pair already in the BeoApp and you want to use the with a BS 9000 with Powerlink?

The first thing I would try is to remove any stereo pairing from each other, factory reset, update firmware and just connect the BL8s in powerlink mode. You may have to configure them L or R channel in the app – I don’t know if they physically select in the PL socket but I’m certain they don’t select with a toggle selector near the connection panel?

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Sorry I cannot give a definitive answer – only a speculative one.

1. If your OLED panel has sufficient computing power ie that of a C or G Gallery/Evo series, you can’t download the LG B&O control app to the TV.

2. The BC Core and almost any panel I think will have CEC coding embedded in the HDMI port control – so I think that will cover you basic control?.

3. I think overall if you combine BR1 or Halo with a BC Core, the fact it has HDMI, the fact that CEC is almost certainly embedded, the possibility of installing an LG/Bno app, the odds of reasonable control I think is very high

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