I don't see the AppleTV and the BeoSound 5 as in the same category. But a lot of people were clearly hoping for video integration, etc., and so B&O finds itself looking for ways to implement this. That's not my point at all - I would have loved to see an uncompromisingly audiophile BS5, as described above. Just a small correction: you do

Soundproof asked "what is it" and the answer is that it's a stereo! Yes! I do most of my music listening to stereo, I enjoy the interaction of the BS 5, and the fact that it integrates well with other B&O kit. As I said in my initial comment, the only thing missing is that B&O should have made this an uncompromisingly audiophile

What is the BeoSound 5? That's probably a good starting point, to understand why it's not being adopted by customers. What's the one outstanding thing it does, better than anything else on the market. There should be something, given its price and the brand that presents it. How does one justify the investment in one, given its limitations

Uh oh! I hope you didn't show him movie loading and playback? Or VNC simulation of the screen of the mini on the Touch? Or, heavens forbid, the new interface between Apple TV and the 2.4 version of the Remote on the Touch? Because that is quite sweet, almost unbelievably so. Buy movies or music from your armchair, play them; or use the improved

The Google translation is quite insane - a year and a half (halvandet) becomes eighteen years of falling sales ... The BV8 is bringing in customers - and immediately, in an accompanying article, a "consumer expert" warns about the dangers of this. Said expert clearly not having heard about recruiting new customers to the brand being smart

[quote user="wowmix"] I seem to understand from one of the posts that if you use DACMagic I will not be able to control the volume from Mac, that's why I put arcam into the equation... [/quote] The default output format for digital audio from Macs is full volume, but you can control this, either using the volume control on the Mac or using

This is the latest trend - to use asynchronous USB, where the computer is slaved to the DAC, and where various apodising filters are used to remove so-called pre-ringing in the digital signal. The manufacturers have to think of something ... Today, dCS, Wavelength and Ayre offer apodising filter solutions, as well as Meridian, which has put this in

Nice to see people sharing their experiences with the DacMagic. There are DACs with volume control, but they tend to be a bit steeper in price than those without, due to the design challenges of creating a transparent volume control (that doesn't degrade the sound.) The Arcam would probably do fine, you would be introducing an additional step in

Hmmm - is that a black 4001 I spy, with my little eye? How and when? Congratulations!

Matthew Bramble, the technical director of Cambridge, had a comment to Stereophile's rave review of the DacMagic concerning jitter. He commented that there's a significant difference between using the battery and the power supply - but the DacMagic's jitter suppression is able to handle both. Jitter is a strange issue - a Letter to the Editor