The Encore's specifications are already available in the new catalogue, and it will NOT play Apple Lossless.FLAC and WMALossless only. It does have 3 sockets below the screen, one temporary USB, one audio input (to connect your Ithing and use its internal audio processor), and one for headphones.It won't use its own DAC for your Ithing playback

EUR 2,850 for NRADIO playback? It must be a joke As such, BeoSound 5 Encore can only play NRADIO, it is "only" a nice looking interface, it doesn't do anything! It simply connects to Internet to get internet radio playback, and to your DLNA server or hard drive, to play your audio files. Or act as a very expensive preamp for another audio

I like the BeoPlayer interface, however for me, it lacks 2 major things: - as for all other B&O softwares, the NRADIO mode (whatever you call it) still doesn't show either track or artist names, like BeoPlayer for PC and even BeoSound 5; for a company that is supposed to care about the artists, I find it surprising; only the third-party Mac

Wow, this is the first time I can follow the prize draw "live", being in New Zealand now, it's never been possible before because of the time difference...and I'm there just for the 1st prize...that goes to....?

Hi, As far as I know, all BeoLabs suffer bass distortion at high volumes, it comes from the way the ABL is working. ABL is good for listening at low to mid volumes, not high volumes, you'll get the same distortion on speakers pushed to their extremes, especially BL 6000 or 3500 where the drivers themselves are so small. The BeoSound 8 was criticized

My pleasure..

Hi, Indeed they are just glued with double sided tape, so basically you can remove them with your fingernails (assuming you have some..), that's what I did and it was very easy.

Hi, With the phono input on your BeoLab 4000, the speaker will turn on automatically as soon as it gets a signal from your audio system. It will go back to stand-by after 3 minutes without any sound.

Hi, On the floorstand, the cable is completely hidden, but on the table/wall stand, there is a small attachment at the back of the cylinder where the cable goes, so yes, you can see it..

I must say I would prefer the next gen. Linkplayer to do fewer things, but to do them perfectly, seamlessly, without bugs. I'm not looking for more than NMUSIC and NRADIO playback throughout the house, with full display on BeoCenter 2 (still not working) , display on BL3500 (there's nothing else than the source at the moment), ability to play