Agree; googling the net several also agrees that the notebook version of the Audigy2 card superior in audio quality. I was just lucky that I could make use of a pc-card since the dedicated BeoPort pc is a tiny box which is half the size bigger than a Mac Mini and PCI-card solution would work out.

[quote user="Alex"]Just found this . From what it seems, the AD1852 seems to be quite difficult to implement correctly, but when it's done correctly it's a very high performance chip. Don't you do stuff like this Punch?[/quote] Thanks for the link; speaking about DACs since I'm using a VIA Tech board in my BeoPort solution

Pdf version of the manual is available from B&O site here .

It's also downloadable from the B&O home page; think that following link should do the trick for you.

[quote user="TWG"]hhm, as the Via motherboard is standard computer hardware it seems to be a wise idea to buy the same motherboard and archive it somewhere in your house - just in case ;-)[/quote] The VIA EPIA boards are great boards; while would say that some of the boards could offer better audio chip than the VIA Vinyl used. Even though

Well, I found the thread and as well Keith has set up an external site with some few pictures and from that I can only say that the Amitech is a Via Tech board or an OEM-version of Via Tech. Here is one shoot from his site showing parts of the motherboard:

[quote user="Puncher"]If it's the Via C7 processor then it has some particular features such as hardware decoding of MPEG 2 & MPEG4 stream for video playback and very low power requirements. However it has the processing horsepower of a midrange Pentium M processor i.e. 3-4 year old technology. Any recent offering from Intel or AMD

While it's hard to figure out what B&O has added inside the box - a good guess is that they're using the VIA EPIA EX-Series Mini-ITX board this time. For BeoMedia 1 they used also a VIA EPIA M II-series board ( thread ). Taken from the BeoMaster 5 manual we can see that the unit has the following connectivity: The VIA EPIA EX connectivity

Well, I don't know about incredeibly powerful computer; I mean for example MediaMonkey does similar job on what ever system that you install it on. It's just a matter of how well tagged the media has been; if BM5 analyses the audio, which I doubt, then I take my hat of for B&O. So once again I'm quite sure that B&O picked either

Well, I sure hope that B&O implement the MOTS feature into BeoPlayer and BeoPort as well. Also this kind if feature is really usefull and nice to have; I've used similar feature at Last.fm and as well with MediaMonkey .