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BeoSound 5

Bang & Olufsen Beosound 5

Your Music At Your Fingertips

The long awaited Digital Music player from B&O strikes out in a new direction for the Danish Company. Revolutionary control surfaces mean that the days or smudged touch screens are a thing of the past, yet the controls maintain a real sense of interaction with the music.

More Of The Same

This is what makes the Beosound 5 special. Unlike other products on the market, this actually compares the actual music using a complicated algorithm to make an never ending musical play list completely automatically. You can construct your own list but MOTS will still, if you wish continue this on once your choices have reached the end.

A Perfect Pair

The Beosound 5 is partnered with the new Beomaster 5. This is an updated Beomedia and has a storage capacity of 500Gb. All Beosound 5s will come with the Beomaster 5 and it is also possible to have the Beomaster 5 built into a Beovision 9. Up to 28,000 tracks at WMA Lossless quality can be stored on the disc which should mean enough music to play a new track without repeating itself for 75 days.
Later versions had the more reliable 1Tb HDD fitted which could store double the amount of music!

Mounting Options

The head unit is supplied with a flat to wall bracket in the box. Optional mounts extended (angled) wall mount, table mount and floor mount were all available from launch. A wall mount bracket for the connection box was launched with BeoSound 5

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BeoPlay V1-40

Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay V1-40

BeoPlay V1 – The new way to do tv

BeoPlay V1 is made the way you live and let play. Hang it, suspend it, lean it, or whatever works for you.

Customize your TV

Who says a black TV should always stay black. Give your BeoPlay V1 a twist of colour by changing the fabric sleeve behind the front grill. Grab your favourite among the four coloured sleeves and simply slide it in behind the grill. Now, all of a sudden, you have a completely new look. And don’t worry, you can always change to another colour later, if you want to make BeoPlay V1 fit a new room or a new style.

Adaptive contrast

The human eye has an amazing ability to adapt to different light conditions. We’ve been inspired by that ability and have built it into BeoPlay V1.

There’s a huge difference between watching the news in the middle of the day with bright light shining through the windows, and watching your favorite movie at night with the TV as the main source of light in the room. The BeoPlay V1 adaptive contrast uses a built-in light sensor and an advanced piece of software that will adjust not only the brightness, but the colours and image quality of your TV according to the surrounding light. In this way your eyes will not get tired of watching.

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BeoPlay V1-32

Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay V1-32

BeoPlay V1 – The new way to do tv

BeoPlay V1 is made the way you live and let play. Hang it, suspend it, lean it, or whatever works for you.

Customize your TV

Who says a black TV should always stay black. Give your BeoPlay V1 a twist of colour by changing the fabric sleeve behind the front grill. Grab your favourite among the four coloured sleeves and simply slide it in behind the grill. Now, all of a sudden, you have a completely new look. And don’t worry, you can always change to another colour later, if you want to make BeoPlay V1 fit a new room or a new style.

Adaptive contrast

The human eye has an amazing ability to adapt to different light conditions. We’ve been inspired by that ability and have built it into BeoPlay V1.

There’s a huge difference between watching the news in the middle of the day with bright light shining through the windows, and watching your favorite movie at night with the TV as the main source of light in the room. The BeoPlay V1 adaptive contrast uses a built-in light sensor and an advanced piece of software that will adjust not only the brightness, but the colours and image quality of your TV according to the surrounding light. In this way your eyes will not get tired of watching.

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BeoLab 2500

Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 2500

BeoLab 2500 are active loudspeakers designed to match the BeoSound Ouverture and the BeoSound 3000. With their built-in amplifiers, they sound as if they’re three times their size. Hang them on the wall or place them on bookshelves.

They match both the Beocenter Ouverture and 3000 (previous to this they were used with both the BeoSound 2300 and 2500 music systems) with perspective and clarity, despite their modest dimensions. The explanation of the wide sound lies in the built-in amplifiers in each cabinet: one for bass and one for treble, so that they never have to compete for the same amplifier.

Features:

BeoLab 2500 are active loudspeakers with 2 built-in power amplifier modules to combine with the current (2002) BeoSound 3000 and BeoSound Ouverture. As speakers for the BeoSound 2300 and 2500 music systems, they were available in Blue Lapis, Black Granite, Red Garnet, Green Malachite, Yellow Dolomite and Silver Galena. However, new metal frets were introduced at the end of 2001. From the previous replaceable cloth fronts, they are now manufactured in pearlescent aluminium (see below). These new perforated metal frets presently come in 5 different colours – natural aluminium, black, blue, green and russet to match those of BeoSound 1.

“When it comes to sound reproduction we believe there’s only one relevant parameter: How close can we come to the originally recorded sound. We feel an obligation not to disturb the intentions of the artist by adding unnatural elements to the acoustic image. Therefore all Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers share the same goal. They differ in size and shape and in terms of sound pressure level. But they are all developed to reproduce the natural, unaltered sound as closely as possible ” – Bang & Olufsen catalogue 2001 – 2002

Adaptive Bass Linearisation

Adaptive Bass Linearisation (ABL) is a process patented by B&O and is incorporated in BeoLab loudspeakers. The idea is to use the surplus capacity in amplifiers and driver units, arising by normal listening levels, for a bass extension – a sound reproduction with more bass, than the loudspeaker otherwise would be able to produce.

The function is adaptive. This means that the loudspeaker adapts to the signal it receives. Loudspeaker drivers are therefore fully exploited, without suffering mechanical or electronic abuse, and the built in amplifiers are not subjected to signals would otherwise create an overload situation.

ABL gives stunning bass reproduction considering the size of the loudspeaker in which it is incorporated, under normal listening levels.

Mounting Options

BeoLab2500 were originally mounted to the HiFi with wall bracket 2087 or physically separated and mounted onto furniture as a bookshelf option.