355f: Well B&O are a lifestyle hifi company they are not in the business of making the best sounding hifi- or ever have been. There are many better system designs that thy can adopt but I doubt it will increase sales much. B&O buyers generally buy it beacuse it looks good and that consideration outweighs the performance Are you sure? I thought

What I meant was it doesn't require as much regular cleaning as the others and doesn't malfunction as often as the besound 9000 because it is less complex. The Beosound 3200 doesn't have a good harddisk recording system. It records everything very compressed so the sound will not be as good as from direct from cd. Beosound 4 will be a better

355f: wonderfulelectric: The BL8000 will most probably be upgraded if it continues to remain in the lineup. The BL8000 was introduced more than ten yrs ago. The build-in amplifiers probably suffer from higher distortion of every kind and higher noise levels than most affordable amplifiers of today. Technological advances in the area of amplifiers are

Or maybe the speakers aren't good enough to reveal the difference. Get the Beosound 4 if you want something convenient. It is lower maintenance than the other ones.

Beolab: wonderfulelectric: Note that BeoLab 8000 came out over then yrs ago. The amplification section in BL8000 wouldn't even be able to compete with a budget amplifier of today. The frequency response is bad, damping factor also bad, slew rate very bad, noise bad so upgrading it with Ice will definitely make a marked improvement. Digital amplifiers

First rule of product promotion. To outmode your own products before competitors do. Beolab 8000 have bad noise level and compresses during full blown orchestra and that is during normal sane levels. The compression wasn't subtle, it was very obvious and was in the midrange. I know because I lived with a pair. Besides doing that upgrade will definitely

Beolab 6000 has two and not one mid/bass drivers so cone exursion will be distributed leading to lower distortion because of the greater sum of surface area. They can try replacing those cheap drivers though. I wonder why hasn't B&O pass all the manufacturing of drivers to scanspeak yet since they have a long history of using their drivers,

Alex: They will only take 16 bit signals I think, if they do take 24 bit signals then it's new to me. They process things internally in 32 bit I believe though. Whether this is the processor architecture or the actual PCM signal being processed, I'm not sure. I really don't like the idea of a hard-drive based system as hi-end. It's boring

On the sideline. Anyone knows what bit length do the Beolab5s accept. I will totally get ti if it accepts 24/196. The harddrive digital source I am planning to get is capable of outputting an upsampled bit length.

Anybody thinks the BV9 look less cold than the BV5? I am not very into that cold metallic sheen of BV5.