It all began with the love of a remote control

As poorly student I walk past a shop selling B&O products and fell in love with the looks oh the b&o 6000 system particularly the remote I decide that one day if all went well I would buy one ....

Many years later I have now acquired a 7000 system in black and a pair of beolab 5 several pairs of beolab 8000 beolab 1's a 7.2 centre and a pair of beolab 9's

 

I am now looking for some advice on how best to put together a AV/music system . I had previously run an AV system with a yahama  dsp-a1  which has sadly died so I am no looking to restructure my system an am looking for advise on the best way to achieve this . 

 

It would appear that B&O do not produce the equilivant  of an AV Reciever . So it would appear the only choice is to use an AV Reciever with pre outs that can be used to drive the B&O active speakers . 

in addition I have recently acquired a transmitter 1 and half a dozen Reciever 1's so I was thinking of connecting the speakers up wirelessly . Is it a good idea to connect up the lab 5's this way or will I lose out on sound quality ? 

 

Can anyone recommend a suitable AV Reciever for the job ? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only way to keep that B&O integration and magic is with one of the B&O AV receivers: the BeoSystem 3 or the BeoSystem 4. Depending on your needs, the BeoSystem 3 might be sufficient and can be found quite reasonably priced on the second-hand market.

Or cross our fingers and see if we get version 5 announced at the AV show in Berlin at the end of August !

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Or cross our fingers and see if we get version 5 announced at the AV show in Berlin at the end of August !

Yes! My dream BS5 would support UHD and Dolby Atmos. Otherwise, It's worthless.

Thanks guys for the quick replies I have sourced a Beosystem 4 bought and paid for delivered in a few days .

 

Now can anyone enlighten me on the issues with possibly connecting the beosystem 4 to a transmitter 1 and then the speakers to individual receiver 1's  will I lose out on sound quality particularly with the beolab 5's ,  presumably encoding end decoding the signals is not without loss ?

Iets hope the beosystem 4 is given some upgrade options .  I guess a beosystem 5 is inevitable as the four does not have enough channels to support the newer formats .

 

 

 

Hi Tony,

 

Are you aware that the beolab 5's can't make wireless connection with the transmitter 1?

The Beolab 5

If you are serious about using the Beolob 5 to the max, i. e using the digital input, you should know that after Beosystem 3 (BV-7) the CD command used for enabling the digital input no longer gets parsed correctly if at all!

The Beosystem 4 does NOT support the Beolab 5 in the digital mode, HOWEVER, the AVANT might!

I say "might" because so far nobody has confirmed the inner works of  the BS 4 engine!

The idea would be, as you alluded to earlier, to simply use the WISA interface and a Beolab Receiver 1, and the run the speakers in "non-B&O mode"

Remember, - the maximum sample rate at the digital input is 88.2khz!  

First off, I would not get too hung up on sending the BL 5s a digital signal. Today, more advanced DACs, like the Meridian Explorer 2, offer superior signal processing, including the ability to offer MQA decoding. I use my Explorer 2 outputting from Mac mini-stored FLAC files and inputting to my A.Aux in on my BS9000 to my BV9 and onto my 5s in a surround set up.

Terrific. The Explorer 2 is only $299!