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Can someone photograph or verify the wall wart that comes with an A5?  Aren’t they the same USB-PD (“Power Delivery”) wall wart as the Level? See a previous thread questioning the Emerge using that same power supply and scroll down to the photo near the end to see what Level’s specs read: https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/new-member-looking-to-add-an-emerge-to-my-collection/

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XavierItzmann wrote:

works with the iPad Air 2, also

Good to know! Charging devices like the A3 (or A8 gen.1) [with 30->Lightning adapter] are the last hurrah for an iPad Air 2: Battery replacements are no longer available from Apple in the USA, and chain third-party repair centers (e.g. BatteriesPlus) can no longer order their franchise’s repair stock. Thus battery replacement is a DIY challenge from iFixIt.com (difficulty=High) unless you can find an independent repair tech who will take the liability of using “customer’s own materials.”

So run it on the A3 (or any charger) until the old battery bulges the screen, then dispose of it ASAP before the battery’s “foil sack” ruptures. [Edit: iPadOS 15.7.5 and latest Spotify 8.8.30 run OK.][Edit 2: iPadOS 15.7.7 released 6/21/2023.  iFixIt battery DIY was a multi-hour tussle: lots of heating adhesive to loosen & twist out screen, motherboard, & battery.  But it worked OK and no soldering was required.]

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USA & Canada, thru April 30: Beoplay H95, 25% off, dealer & website.

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@Earle weiß, dass sein Level ohne GVA ist, weil er bei Amazon bestellt hat. Da Amazon Alexa herstellt, verkaufen sie keine Google Voice-Produkte.
Außerdem: (sollten) Sie in der Lage sein, dies zu erkennen, indem Sie den Mikrofonschalter ausschalten und das Gerät ausschalten. GVA-Produkte beschweren / “erinnern” Sie daran, sich beim Einschalten über das stummgeschaltete Mikrofon.

[please pardon Bing Translate]

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Apparently the Winter Park store is going from “soft opening” to “open hard”?  Their invitation: “Ribbon Cutting on Thursday, April 13 at 11:15 and our Grand Opening weekend April 13-15!  Come by and help us celebrate!”

Someone should take some pictures now that they have finished installing everything.  Bear in mind that B&O asserts absolute editorial control over dealer’s postings, but anyone local could snap a few “unauthorized” shots for the rest of us lurking here…

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I would measure the resistance of the good and the bad drivers to ensure they are approximately the same.  Mere continuity could be anywhere between working and a dead short thru the coil or the wires rubbed against the frame, though you probably would have seen the latter. (N.B. Being a bear of very little brain, I hope someone else can suggest something more sophisticated.)

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amazon.com has lowered their price on the Beosound Level aluminum/black to $1127.

Apparently their discounts were precedent to a new B&O discount of 20% off the Level and the Stage — the aluminum & black fabric models only — because amazon is matching their price for the Stage, $1599.  (B&O 20% visible from the USA, I didn’t check elsewhere.)

 

[EDIT: As of April 5, amazon’s price for the Level is back up to $1299, roughly the same ($20 cheaper) as B&O website.]

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Visible in the USA at least, today amazon.com has the black/aluminum Beosound Level on sale at US$1213.62.  They call that “26% off” but of course that’s post- last year’s price hike.  The gold color is not quite so marked-down at US$1679.  Non-GVA, of course.

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Ten-year-old rerun, sorry, but didn’t see this in the archive: “Covert Affairs”, season 4 episode 4, BL8000 in Augie’s apartment:

(Had to be filmed earlier in 2013, because surely they would have used the BL18 if it were available — released October 30.  Nice “wooden tuning fork” floor lamp, too.)

Then in episode 5 we see something that looks like a BS 9000… except that the whole thing is under glass, not just the loader?!!

And that turntable is not a Beogram — missed opportunity for cool… though the lucite base underneath the plinth is pretty swish.  (Also continuity mistake, LP label switches from white to red.)

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[Oops, squash that hypothesisWAG!]

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@Mikipedia is one of the few people with many speakers fulfilling several roles.  @Sandyb has just the two speakers and the Theatre.  Speculation: Perhaps when switching listening positions, the Theatre cycles thru each speaker, powering it up — and instead of accumulating/max-ing the wait times of all speakers before their amplifiers click on, it performs the delay per speaker (or pair) serially?  After moving, when he sets it up again, maybe @Mikipedia can try with only one pair of external speakers…

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Likely not the A9 that is the exception, rather its GVA-ness:  Wasn’t it the case that with GVA loaded, Google had control of your calendar(==schedule) thus prohibited licensees from having a function that “ought” to be done inside the Google ecosystem?  Therefore I believe if you tell your Google Assistant to set an alarm on that device, it works just like Googoolians would expect.  (Based on faded memories; I returned the only GVA product I ever purchased when it kept shouting at me its microphone was turned off.  Too bad, really, it was the dregs of the BeoSound 1 NewYork Editions and was a real bargain.)

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If you are actually looking at the speaker it is much easier to determine 8002 vs. 8000 by the new LED “teardrop” molded at the bottom of the 8002 speaker grille, rather than by its serial number, viz:

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Winter Park, FL store is open as of today: Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5.

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The website today says, “Beosound A9: Don’t mess with the classics. Unless it’s to bring them bang up to date. Beosound A9 is now available with stereo pairing, smoother in-app setup, and improved Wi-Fi performance. ”  But it lists the same Wi-Fi specs as before (2.4/5GHz, ac support).  Does anybody know what is improved?  Was the old SoC/antenna combo sub-par?  One other thing I noticed about the Gen.5 is that the USB C Aux Input is apparently only analog?  Whereas Gen.4 spec lists a 3.5mm jack that was “combi”, i.e. supported optical too?  I don’t have one to test… does anybody know if that was true?

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Your BS2 has GVA?  Gen.3 will not.  Balance still GVA-optional.

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etype76 wrote:

Thanks, I recall that in the manual but I always thought that MK2 was compatible with everything and being the thicker type was less susceptible to noise.

You would think so, but alas, not: Either the “spare” wires in the Mk.2 cables are picking up the noise, or else the Mk.3 cable is adding a ground. (Not specific to BL3; e.g. BV10->BL18 requires Mk.3 (4-wire) because Mk.2 (8-wire) makes that “data” chirp on volume up/dn.)

Mr10Percent wrote:

I had the same issue taking a regular CAT7 (flat cable), connecting my Beolab3s (with RJ45 to PL connector) and the issue was bad. I could clearly hear an impulse when pressing vol +/-.

Using an 8-wire RJ45-connector Cat.8 (has both pair shield & connector ground) patch cord drove BL18 without noise, ***provided a 4-wire Mk.3 PowerLink cable was used from the BV first***, before the PL-RJ converter dongle.  Both flat cable & round worked; shouldn’t matter if the pair twist is to spec.  Also Cat.7 should be OK if it’s SFTP (shield&foil-twisted-pair) with the grounded metallic connector head.  I chose Cat.8 for the “safety” guarantee (higher data rates = better shielding), but that shouldn’t have mattered.  BTW, a (so-called) “Cat.8” female-to-female connector worked OK in that chain, too.

hox wrote:

I don’t know if my pl cables are mk2 or mk3, but they are pretty thick and have the litte triangle…

I believe that triangle on the DIN plug was just a B&O convention to help keep track. Third parties, like the folks who made my Mk.3 cable, don’t necessarily follow that convention. (One unverified source claims that generally, the triangle merely points to the positive lead, or to pin 1.)

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moxxey wrote:

Does anyone know if there’s anything new in the BS2 edition 3 versus the current edition?

The board supporting Mozart has Bluetooth 5.3, uses a USB-C for Aux input, and a microphone for “Active Room Compensation”.

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No idea what the issue can be, but… suggestions?… Ennh, only bad ones…  (1) As @MM says above, just wire the suckers. Or at least two of them, WAG-ing that reducing the overall address count or frequency usage might avoid some bug.  In the same vein, wire or turn off the one principally drop-out speaker “permanently” to see if that fixes it forever, or sooner or later just moves the problem.  (2) Crazy DIY experiment: Buy a WiSA SoundSend ($179) and connect it with some other TV, and let that link to all the speakers to see if they stay connected.  If not, return it and try #1 above.  But if the SoundSend amazingly works, blame B&O and start wasting time with their “professional” tech support.  (3) Experiment #2: Switch your network to 2.4GHz only, for all devices.  Truly, unless you are a massive data consumer with many, many devices competing, or have an old 802.11b device bleating on, you won’t even notice.  Well, except reception will improve everywhere!  (Unless you have neighbors competing for the 2.4GHz channels, of course.)

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20% off Beolab 18s *IF* you buy a Theatre at full price.  USA & Canada only, in store only, March 1 thru April 30.

Seeing as they raised the price of the Theatre by $500 on March 1, and the “excess discount” of 5% over the previous sale (15%) on the Beolab 18s amounts to $500, the left hand giveth and the right hand taketh away.  But if you were already planning to buy this particular combo before the price increase, now’s the time!

Also a 25% discount offered on Beolab 18s when full-price Theatre is bought, if you also buy *TWO* Beolab 19s (also discounted the 25%).  Some marketing person made the margins work out right, but it undercuts the notion that one sub with a pair of 18s was the proper bundle.

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