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Re: Goodbye my love?

Beobird — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:42:01 GMT

It's not funny to say goodbye to a brand you've loved for years, but sometimes you just have to. Just put the 3200 on your bedroom and buy some good equipment for you living room. I can recommend to buy things from 1 or 2 brands. The Oppo is good, but you will have a Oppo remote, a audio remote and a tv remote.

You can also look at a mediaplayer like the Western Digital tv. It's a plug and play machine. Put the hdmi connector in the tv and you can connect a external hard drive or hd-stick into the usb port. Download some 1080P movies from newsleechers and you get the best image for <200 euro's (WD TV 90,- + external 1TB drive 90,- + a hdmi cable).

Re: Goodbye my love?

Cleviebaby — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:05:18 GMT

Michael,

I have some sympathy for you.

You lose the term 'love affair', and to carry that analogy on I went through a period of being unfaithful to B&O, but ultimately always came back because it has an almost unique combination of aesthetics, sound/vision quality, ergonomics and sheer pleasure to have aroun. It is the only kit I could live with for any length of time.

I'm now starting a small family (collecting a few bits)

Cleve

Re: Goodbye my love?

Medogsfat — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:30:21 GMT

Comments?

B&O - the Marmite of the AV industry.

I personally love both

Chris.

Goodbye my love?

mfirst — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:32:13 GMT

As I sit here and watch TV (non-B&O) through the Aux port on my BS3200, I am thinking about moving my B&O to the bedroom (ebay?) and investing in some real modern audio/video equipment. Yeah, sure looks nice and sounds good - but no longer suits my needs, desires, and budget. Looking at getting the new Oppo Blu-ray DVD for US$500 - hmm, what can you get from B&O for that.....thinking..... thinking.... uh, nothing. Then what will I plug it into? All of that new technology going into an Aux port and a cheap switch so I can toggle back and forth between my DVD, my iTunes, and my iPod (forget about XM radio, internet radio, etc)? Missing out on digital outputs, HDMI, 5.1/7.1/etc. Sounds like the rate limiting step is B&O - completely out of date, no reasonable upgrade path, compatible with only itself (barely), and obscenely expensive..... for what? New Beosound 5 vs McIntosh media server? Or spend then same amount on a whole new system that all works together.... even the Beo4 remote doesnt work with anything else. Hard time convincing myself that "stereo" is better... maybe I need to go out and buy some records?

Sorry, but my love affair with B&O is falling by the wayside.... and they are not doing much to woo me back.

comments please?

-michael