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That sounds like a very nice hobby and I can share the fascination 🙂

Than a good preamp that suits your number of input sources should be a good way. If you buy a unit with a display you may improve comfort with custom source names.
Have a look in the user manual or ask the seller if the preamp allows to rename input sources to show them accordingly in its display. For example “AM Radio” instead of “Tape”.

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If it involves the term “hackers” I can imagine that it’s a little bit difficult to change the display 🙂

Yes, it’s still running Windows 7 due to some software that will not run on Windows 8.1 or 10.

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These where just 2 examples and one out of many solutions for your problem.
If it’s elegant is a matter of personal taste. I’m using a TA-E9000ES on one of the Beosystems as many members of the family don’t think “A.Mem” or “V.Mem” are very intuitive names when they want to listen to music. When a preamp has a display and can show “Blueooth”, “Chromecast” (or any other free text) on its display it’s helpful.

You can hook up any preamp and highend preamp you like to your system and hide it in a cabinet.
Don’t worry:
Some of those devices are much more highend than Bang & Olufsen (qality and technology).
There are preamps etc. for custom installations, too and those can be controlled through professional home automation solutions (RTI, Crestron, KNX …)

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On Madskp said

A little curious question. Would it be possible to change the TAPE command with the CD command for the Beotooth 5500?

One usecase I could seen for this is a computer using one Beotooth as speaker connection, and the other beotooth could the be used for connecting a phone

 

That is a good suggestion. Maybe a small swich can be integrated which chooses to which command the Beotooth will react: Tape, Tape 2, N.Music, CD …

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Thank you for the photos. Yes, it looks nicer than in the press pictures and the control via Beoremote, Halo remote and app is very nice.

But
– the cold white led light doesn’t look as good as on the old 9000.
– the stand looks somehow cheap and unfinished compared to the old one (at least at the photos).

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Congratulations! The Asus NX90 still is such a niece piece of equipment!

Does anybody know if the display could be upgraded to a newer one? Brightness and contrast of my NX90 doesn’t fit modern standards anymore.

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Very interesting device and good work!

Does it support other codes than AAC? For example aptx?

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You can hook up any preampflifier you like to the 3,5mm stereo aux to usb-C adapter of your of your Beosound Theatre and then connect all desired analog (or digital, depending on the preamp’s connections) sources.

2 random examples:

Yamaha AVS 700
Yamaha AVS-700 Natural Sound AV Selector

Sony TA-E9000ES:
https://audio-database.com/SONY-ESPRIT/amp/ta-e9000es.html

 

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Doesn’t the whole NL infrastructure rely on a standard called REST API or JSON?

I found things like this:
https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/1053298/T1LTe4Lt

https://github.com/bang-olufsen

So there are ways to reach our B&O toys on another way.

I’m not a software develover, so maybe some better educated member can shine some light on this.

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For a true sustainable system, it should have the option to add Beo4 infrared control, too. Like on the Essence MK2 and Core.

But all in all I like the new Beoconnect Core! With this aluminium design there’s no more need to hide it away. Looks nice and the AUX-Input can easily be fed by a preamp for multiple other audio sources, too.

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As far as I know only the 1st generation of A9 worked with Beo4, 5 and 6 as it had an infrared port. Later generations of A9 only work with Bluetooth.

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Thank you for all the good work to make the jewel Beoworld happen and keeping it alive.

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Hello Johan,

yes, the Beosystem 3 manages the HDMI inputs (Streamer, Blu-Ray…).

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Thanks for your input. So it seems a little more complicated than originally thought 😉

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both sold out, danish and english factory tour. 🙁 A little too late to the party. Damn!!!*

*in my native language I know much better words to express my bad mood 😉

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Thank you Millemissen.
According to the site the kids unfortunately must be mininum 12years old for the factory tour. 🙁

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trackbeo wrote:

Model: BeoSound 1 2nd generation”.

Okay, that was too obvious. 😀 Thanks.

So, MK1 battery required and service manual.

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Is there a service manual on how to dismantle it WITHOUT scratching and damaging? 🙂 Didn’t find one on Beoworld nor online, only for the lovely old Beosound 1 with CD player.

Can anybody tell me if my BS 1 item no. 1665511 is MK1 or MK2? There are two different batteries available.

Currently I didn’t disassemble the BS 1 so I can’t tell whether the internal charging circuit is dead or just the battery.

It’s strange that local control is broken… and even stranger if this has its cause in a broken battery.

Yes, I know that lithium batterys aren’t fun. That’s why I don’t buy an electrical car, too. 😉

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Sad news.
He contributed so much to our B&O community.

My condolence to his family!

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The Prize Draw… ist an icing on the cake.

The main reason why I became a Gold member was support and access.
Support of this great B&O forum and
Access to all the information, solutions and data that opens up new possibilities in the B&O world and provides solutions you might not have thought about.

Instead of the prize draw a very nice addition would be access to Bang & Olufsen software – as far as this is possible and of course at your own risk if you brick etc. a Beosound while experimenting around with firmware, PUC etc.

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