Hi B&O aficionados, need your advice. I'm following B&O and Beoworld since a couple of years. In the meantime I bought a couple of stuff Beocom 4, Beosound 3 and Beotime recently.
First of all I would like congratulate again (I probably have done it in the past already when I joined and asked for advice then. But quite some stuff has changed since then.....) Beoworld and their members. Very useful information on this forum and very passionate people and posts. Really like it.
ML wiring is included in the new house we moved in 5 months ago. Since then I was near to order the BV8 (BV7 looks and souns fantastic but it didn't fit our requirements) but fortunately read on this forum about BV10! I pre-ordered straight the BV10 once as I saw the first picture. It looks great! And the design/functionality/price was what I was looking for since some time.
So here is the foreseen set-up
* living room BV10-40 with BS8000; I'll plan to connect a bluray player (maybe a PS3?) that works with Beo5; daily use for TV, DVD's for little daughter of 2 yrs and DVDs/BR for me and my wife, no need for 5.1 here
* office room BL3500 as linkroom for stored music, radio mainly
* parent sleeping room BL3500 or a TV with a decent sound as linkroom (but at a later stage) for stored music and radio mainly
* furbished attic of 60m2: I have currently a 52 inch Sony LCD with PS3 for my 11yr old sun (and me!!)
Here what I'm looking for:
* use the link functionalities for living room: mainly stored music, radio, pictures and personal videos
* office and sleeping room: mainly radio and stored music as mentioned above
* attic: use link functionalities similar to main room but with a decent sound as well; for the time I have KEF 5.1 compact loudspeakers (the eggs first series) from previous flat with a Marantz 6 channel amplifier but without HDMI. Theyre not hooked up to the Sony right now and the sound from the TV is sh...Cannot hear the voices clearly or otherwise it gets too loud when there's action. Kef's are ok so for the time I'll keep those. In a couple of years I plan to buy a second hand 50/55 inch from B&O and then go for B&O speakers as well.
I'm a Mac user, hence AppleTv is a cheap and decent solution. Though I would like everything to work with Beo5 respectively Beo4. Dealer told me that I need one B&O audio equipment for the link functionalities. That's where I've problem deciding. Because looking at the prices, I rather go straight for the BS5. I read through the BS5 forum and come to the conclusion that it's probably early to buy it as it needs to mature (or am I wrong here). Then there is talk about a new audio platform? Does this mean that the BS5 will turn to a media platform and if yes, will the current BS5 be upgradable by changing BM5 maybe (but at what cost)?
Any thoughts on what you would do at this stage please?
Thanks for your help
Patrizio