B+O Moment; BS99000 and BL5

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Hockey44 Posted: Tue, Dec 29 2015 5:45 PM

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Hello all,

I have learned that BL5 unfortunately will NOT work wirelessly.  I am thinking about buying BO Moment and create music library and hard wire cables to BS9000, Moment and BL5 and maybe buy A9 (for wireless).

Question:

• Can I listen to music using the Moment the above way without turning on the BS9000?
• Can I wire Moment to BL5 -- or how best to 'link' these beasts (BL5) to the system?
• For a Mac setup, what is the easiest way for me to start downloading all my CD's and building a library that the Moment can access? Could I use something like a Samsung SSD flash drive (no power) that is plugged into a USB hub? Or what is the easiest way to create a music server? I would like the music to function without having to turn on a latpop or desktop-- hence my question.
• I assume there is no 3rd party solution to make the BL5's wireless? B+O tell me they are the only speakers that don't work this way-- what a pity, the most expensive ones and could can't add this functionality. Or is there another way? I am trying to avoid cables since we have modern open reception.

Many thanks and sorry for newbie questions.

Best,

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Sal replied on Tue, Dec 29 2015 6:05 PM

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I don't understand the information you were provided regarding the BL5's unable to work wirelessly.... I would imagine that the Transmitter 1 and Receiver 1 combination would work fine with the Beolab 5. Unless there is some intricacy that I'm unaware of.

Connect the Transmitter 1 to the PL outputs of the Beosound Moment, and connect a Receiver 1 to each of the Beolab 5 speakers, and there you should have wireless connection to the Beolab 5.

In order to integrate the Beosound 9000 you'll need a ML/NL Converter.

The Moment works best with Twonky Server software which accesses the Media, be it on a Mac, PC, or on a standalone HD server. You'll download the appropriate Twonky App instance for your equipment, and point it to the folder / directory which houses your media. Many on these forums have always on computers running Twonky pointed to their media directories.

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PeterBOBP replied on Tue, Dec 29 2015 7:13 PM

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Sal:

I don't understand the information you were provided regarding the BL5's unable to work wirelessly.... I would imagine that the Transmitter 1 and Receiver 1 combination would work fine with the Beolab 5. Unless there is some intricacy that I'm unaware of.

Unfortunately it won't work; apparently because some of the data needed for the Beolab 5's to operate (on/off/other?) is not transmitted. 

In regards using Twonky/DLNA media server I would limit the use of that to artist / albums that are not on Deezer; saves a lot of tagging / album art hassle; the audio quality from Deezer is fine; I have Beolab 5's too and I do not notice a difference between DLNA  (Apple lossless) or Deezer. Of course your ears might be more sensitive than mine  ;-). 

Peter