i bought one in summer of 2009 and i am over the moon with it. lisbonner you are wrong. i transfer classical music into windows lossless from CDs - there is no reduction in quality. the windows lossless copy on the beosound 5 is an exact clone of the CD so no loss in quality at all. very impressive. i love flicking through album covers. MOTs software is fantastic. if you buy music from Linn Music you can buy Studio Master quality music in Windows Lossless which is even better than CD quality.
@JJ9715 Hi, yes, B&O has always been innovative, incredibly well designed and bloody expensive. Look, it doesn't do anything that Itunes and Ipod won't give you, just look (even) nicer:-) I come from Denmark, and for Danes, B&O is so ingrained in our DNA, that I will gladly pay the price, and then maybe not have a flashy car. It is very cool, don't you think?
No, it's actually $8k, and not to sound like a dick, but Bang & Olufsen isn't about value. B&O is the apex of engineering, quality, and design. I've used their stuff in my own home for 20 years...
I purchased Beosound5 and have had to change it to the Beosound 9000. If you have a good collection of "classic" music CD's this is not the thing for you! They omit to tell you that the transfer of the digital data suffer some reduction, are very fastidious and lengthy, are not optimized to MAC OS and iTunes and even with PC and the B&O transfer system you cannot opt for the visualization and selection by composers which is of basic importance for this kind of music! I was VERY disappointed!
The price is to high and isent this technology outdated in the sense that most people would like a Bluetooth speaker that connects to the internet/spotify or something like that better.... anything with a hard-drive will turn out outdated next to a world of streaming online...
I played with my neighbor's BeoSound 5 unit for 2 hours -- the interface Wheels are bad and Jog is HORRIBLE to work with. I can select songs and move through albums faster on my $400 iPhone, than I can on this $5,000 player.
Whats the point in investing 8k into this??? looks great and only feature thats appealing is multi room. I am sure a week's time of coding could get me that!!!! what a crap!!
7000 dollars? Oh my god what a piece of shit. I'm not against spending thousands, or even MILLIONS of dollars on PROPER hi-fi like Snell THX Reference speakers, Mcintosh, Mark Levinson amps, ELP turntables, Nordost Odin Supreme Reference or Skogrand Markadian 421 cables. But paying $7000 for what is essentially an iPad or Sonos system is absurd. B&O also sells a 103" plasma TV that for $100,000 that gets out performed by $2000 projectors.
This is probably the worst HiFi ever made. Having worked in a Bang & Olufsen store I can confirm that nearly everybody who bought the Beosound 5 grew to hate the thing. Horrible user interface amongst other issues.
adi daskoln Bang & Olufsen has absolutely nothing to do with sound quality, you're paying for a design. And no audio nor TV brand can beat Bang & Olufsen's timeless Danish design. B & O is basically Phillips in a cocktail dress. Imagine buying a Paul Smith suit, yes. So the market is full of suits of equal quality available for a fraction of the price, but the Paul Smith is still somehow better.
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i bought one in summer of 2009 and i am over the moon with it. lisbonner you are wrong. i transfer classical music into windows lossless from CDs - there is no reduction in quality. the windows lossless copy on the beosound 5 is an exact clone of the CD so no loss in quality at all. very impressive. i love flicking through album covers. MOTs software is fantastic. if you buy music from Linn Music you can buy Studio Master quality music in Windows Lossless which is even better than CD quality.
@TheApplescout 7000 Might not justify it at first but you really have to get your hands on one of these masterpieces to really see how amazing it is.
do you have to buy seperate speakers for this?
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@JJ9715 Hi, yes, B&O has always been innovative, incredibly well designed and bloody expensive. Look, it doesn't do anything that Itunes and Ipod won't give you, just look (even) nicer:-)
I come from Denmark, and for Danes, B&O is so ingrained in our DNA, that I will gladly pay the price, and then maybe not have a flashy car. It is very cool, don't you think?
OS: Windows XP embedded! Fantastic?
Considering its pretty much a fancy ooversized ipod? Yea...
$7990 for a fancy car mp4 player? LOL
This is at least better than the blah Sooloos. Much can be improved though.
which is not desigjn by david lewis
This product is definitely geared towards wealthy people who have tons of money to throw around. I think I will stick with iTunes and my iPod.
my ipad with spotify does the same for 699 :-)
People who bad-mouth B&O it is because they cant afford it :D
+Lars W I recently bought an Avant and felt like I've had the best purchase of the year. But something like this in the video is quite useless.
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So true LOL.... transparent
I'll stick with the bose system.
No, it's actually $8k, and not to sound like a dick, but Bang & Olufsen isn't about value. B&O is the apex of engineering, quality, and design. I've used their stuff in my own home for 20 years...
LOL
I purchased Beosound5 and have had to change it to the Beosound 9000. If you have a good collection of "classic" music CD's this is not the thing for you! They omit to tell you that the transfer of the digital data suffer some reduction, are very fastidious and lengthy, are not optimized to MAC OS and iTunes and even with PC and the B&O transfer system you cannot opt for the visualization and selection by composers which is of basic importance for this kind of music! I was VERY disappointed!
The price is to high and isent this technology outdated in the sense that most people would like a Bluetooth speaker that connects to the internet/spotify or something like that better.... anything with a hard-drive will turn out outdated next to a world of streaming online...
I played with my neighbor's BeoSound 5 unit for 2 hours -- the interface Wheels are bad and Jog is HORRIBLE to work with.
I can select songs and move through albums faster on my $400 iPhone, than I can on this $5,000 player.
Whats the point in investing 8k into this??? looks great and only feature thats appealing is multi room. I am sure a week's time of coding could get me that!!!! what a crap!!
this seems really pointless for 8 grand. just get sonos
7000 dollars? Oh my god what a piece of shit. I'm not against spending thousands, or even MILLIONS of dollars on PROPER hi-fi like Snell THX Reference speakers, Mcintosh, Mark Levinson amps, ELP turntables, Nordost Odin Supreme Reference or Skogrand Markadian 421 cables. But paying $7000 for what is essentially an iPad or Sonos system is absurd. B&O also sells a 103" plasma TV that for $100,000 that gets out performed by $2000 projectors.
Who cares.. an iPod can do much more
@paranormaalutrecht klatscht gleich, aber kein beifall... phillips. AAlso wirklich. Keine Ahnung und blabla verzapfen
This is probably the worst HiFi ever made. Having worked in a Bang & Olufsen store I can confirm that nearly everybody who bought the Beosound 5 grew to hate the thing.
Horrible user interface amongst other issues.
Bang and Olufsen is overpriced. Its nice to see that most people realise its overated. The sound quality can be beaten for a tenth of the price
adi daskoln Bang & Olufsen has absolutely nothing to do with sound quality, you're paying for a design. And no audio nor TV brand can beat Bang & Olufsen's timeless Danish design. B & O is basically Phillips in a cocktail dress. Imagine buying a Paul Smith suit, yes. So the market is full of suits of equal quality available for a fraction of the price, but the Paul Smith is still somehow better.