I'll definately share whatever I can find out. In the (seemingly endless) lead-up to the BeoSound 5, the decompression was hyped internally as part of the magic. When we finally got to sit down with working units I was handily impressed. It's admittedly been mentioned little to not-at-all since release. Maybe a minor point in marketing, but

[quote user="Puncher"] I' sorry if it's just me, but I've searched the site and B&O's and can't find any more details of the " .................. patented decompression algorithm and sound card" in the BM5 that has so impressed Trip . If anyone can expand on this I'd be interested to read more. [/quote

[quote user="mbee"] TRip makes me laugh when he says that Apple TV is far inferior in terms of sound quality compared to a BS5/BM5: - Some people says (who are these people? Are you one of them? If so please state it clearly) that their aac files from itunes are badly reproduced by bm5, the quality is better with iTunes... (so the codec doen't

[quote user="erg4000"] [quote user="TripEnglish"] AppleTV only has 160GB on-board storage and gives priority to video. My audio along is greater so there's streaming from a "switched-on" system no matter what. Attached DACs improve a bad situation, but don't match up sonically. I don't hate the AppleTV, but

[quote user="Puncher"] [quote user="TripEnglish"] Sound Quality: - you'll never begin to approach the sound quality produced by the BeoSound 5. The sound-card hardware and decompression algorithms are stellar. [/quote] Really? Perhaps you can expand on how this is - if most store their music in uncompressed format then the "stellar"

Once again Affineur represents the opinion I see in the majority of my customer base. It's not that he and I specifically share a philosophy (though it sounds as though we do), but that his needs and demands align completely with the majority of B&O's core clientele.

AppleTV only has 160GB on-board storage and gives priority to video. My audio along is greater so there's streaming from a "switched-on" system no matter what. Attached DACs improve a bad situation, but don't match up sonically. I don't hate the AppleTV, but google "Apple TV problems" and you'll start to see what

Will the iPad be excellent? I suspect it will. Will I pre-order one as soon as it's available? Absolutely. Will it become my most used Apple device out of my MacBook Air, Macbook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, & iPhone? Almost certainly. Will it offer a better experience than my BeoSound 5 for listening to music in my home? Absolutely not. The reason

If it gets big it gets big, but I have yet to see a 3D experience that didn't give me a headache and was terrible. Most require glasses (which is even worse if you already wear glasses) and the ones that don't require such specific viewing positions that 70% or more rooms would not be able to accommodate one. It's one thing to go to the

Again, spot on. In "my world" HDMI count is the least of the issues. Throw in an expander or matrix switcher and you're done. It's the scope of the project and operational narratives that we focus on. And I'd say that the terms "comfort zone" and "rut" are interchangeable.