[quote user="moxxey"]I'm not 100% sure what you mean? Do you mean you can't connect to a Mac formatted NAS drive or an iTunes library on any Mac hard drive, server or whatever?[/quote] A NAS drive should work, as the file system used internally is not "seen" by the BS5. The only parameter is the network protocol (SMB, AFP

@TripEnglish : I agree with you that using AirPlay for playing a part of one's iTunes library is totally useless... But Airplay can also be used to play the sound of a video from your iThing, to play the sound of Deezer/Spotify from your iThing (until it's directly supported by BS5), to listen to the music you're about to purchase on any

Aux in the front??? They forgot to put an ugly aux cable in their Airport/Encore setup!! Hope you mistake the aux in with the headphone out... @linder : you have 2 solutions to get music from an iPhone to BS5 wirelessly : 1. run a DLNA app on the iPhone. Then the iPhone music appears as a library in the BS5. (works for music, not for apps) 2. connect

1. The BS5 (Encore) seems to work well with iTunes-purchased music (there is no ALAC on the iTunes Store). So I can't understand people complaining that this is not Apple compatible. 2. The BS5 (Encore) is advertised with Airplay, but with an Airport Express. Here I can't understand B&O for making such a promotion for Apple technology without

I have 2 big reasons to be really interested in the Encore : 1. MOTS. It seems very simple, but it is not. Nowadays, everyone has thousands of digital tracks, and there are a lot of things to play them. I'm really happy with my Sonos+B&O system, but I do like everyone do : I don't listen to my entire collection, just the "albums of

@rednik : as I wrote before, Airplay has NOTHING hardware related : for a Beosound 5, it is just some lines of code in the software. B&O has just added DLNA support (in order to "see" NAS drives and other things such as smartphones) on the BS5. They can do the same with airplay, via a software update. The only issue is the Apple license

No, the Beosound 5 doesn't have Airplay. But no hardware limitation avoids it as the Beomaster 5 is simply a PC (in fact, the Airplay key has been cracked, so unofficially, any PC can be an Airplay speaker). The only thing to do is to give $100 to Apple for each Airplay product sold. And that's a shame (too exepensive for such a simple technology

@Moxxey : totally agree with you on that : one has to buy an Airport Express to have AirPlay, but the worst thing of all is that as the Beosound 5 Encore hasn't got a digital input, by doing this, you use the cheap low quality DAC of the Airport Express. Sad. Maybe they decided to directly add the function (and pay 100$ to Apple...) only on the

We know that the new system will work with Ethernet cables... But keeping this cabling with the new BeoNet can't work (for instance they are connecting Beolabs directly to an Ethernet cable, with PL>>RJ45 adapters). The only thing you will keep is the cabling (and that's already good news).

http://www.abo-center.dk/Abo_center_2/reptips/diagrammer/Link/Cat7%20New%20B&onet%20handbook.pdf Despite the name, it just looks like the "good old way" to create a PL/ML network with (tons of) Ethernet cables... Not a digital BeoNet