Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

Most of my B merchandise has come from my local online Apple Store, my 
P7 headphones and the A7 speaker system were bought from a specialist 
Hi-Fi shop up the road.



One of our biggest department store chains - Harvey Norman - stocks B 
though when you contact them to order it their out of stock if that 
makes any sense so you have to wait, and wait and wait.





On 27/05/2016 2:36 PM, Mary Otten wrote:

Well, here in the town where I live, you definitely have to visit a
high end store to get the brands you named. Those Magnolia shops or
rooms are limited to the Best Buy stores where there are big bucks in
the surrounding community. In fact, the one store here that had B is
closed. So if you want 'em, on line is it.


Mary




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Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Mary Otten]

Well, here in the town where I live, you definitely have to visit a
high end store to get the brands you named. Those Magnolia shops or
rooms are limited to the Best Buy stores where there are big bucks in
the surrounding community. In fact, the one store here that had B is
closed. So if you want 'em, on line is it.


Mary

Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

Okay thanks.


I've since been talking to a couple of people who inform me that the 
Best Buys chain have B P7 headphones so I guess it figures that they 
should have other B products.



We don't have a Best Buys in Australia but we do have discount stores 
such as JB Hi-Fi And Dick Smith which - for the most part - sell the 
cheaper kind of goods not fund in a specialist Hi-fi shop or store, a 
specialist place in Australia is where you'd most likely have to go to 
get such names as B, B, Denon, Keff and so on and these stores 
unfortunately are becoming near to extinct.





On 27/05/2016 1:42 PM, Mary Otten wrote:

Certain Best Buy stores have the Magnolia room, which is a high end
hi-fi, probably other stuff too like high end a/v receivers, area in
the store. Our local store doesn't have that. It may be that these high
end rooms inupscale shopping areas have some B stuff.

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Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Mary Otten]

Certain Best Buy stores have the Magnolia room, which is a high end
hi-fi, probably other stuff too like high end a/v receivers, area in
the store. Our local store doesn't have that. It may be that these high
end rooms inupscale shopping areas have some B stuff. 

Mary

Re: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.

[Dane Trethowan]

I'd imagine they'd have to support AirPlay or a similar wireless feature 
from an IOS device somehow.





On 27/05/2016 11:59 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
Would these do Airplay? I heard about this Allplay thing, but if on 
iOS, we're restricted to the services they support and the local music 
library outside Apple Music, that might not be as good.



- Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:41 AM
Subject: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home 
AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.



If I were living in the U.S. I'd certainly be following these 
products up, the specs look fantastic.

http://www.hitachi.us/press/05142015

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Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Dane Trethowan]

You're not going to find B computer speakers at Best Buys as far as I 
know, we're talking about "A Cut Above The Average" here .





On 27/05/2016 11:50 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
That's a brand I've heard a lot about online, but never got to 
actually hear how they sound. I imagine they don't sell many, if any 
at all, of their speakers in the major chain stores like Best Buy. One 
of their smaller Airplay systems might be nice though.


- Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally


I moved to get the B A7 system as quickly as I could given that B 
were recently taken over so Goodness Only knows what changes the new 
crowd are thinking of making given they're in the home automation 
business and not in the business of making products that sound good.



The B sound is lengendery if I dare say so myself.




On 25/05/2016 4:57 AM, André van Deventer wrote:
Got the rest of the tab out!  Very simple actually you simply have 
to open the battery compartment!


Very handy little control indeed.  All the functions work with fobar 
2000 which is what I am primarily use.


Still can't get over the sound of these little speakers!



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of 
Mary Otten

Sent: 24 May 2016 06:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally

I hope you can manage to get your remote control working. I prefer 
it immensely to the controls on the speaker, because they have no 
tactile indication, and because you have to reach for the speaker in 
order to use those controls. Plus, with the remote you can move 
among tracks and stop playback. It's a very handy little unit.

Mary


Sent from my iPhone

On May 24, 2016, at 8:40 AM, André van Deventer 
 wrote:


Hi all



For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B mm1
speakers finally arrived today.



Getting started was rather straight forward.   I simply connected 
up the two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the 
USB port.

Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers.  It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.



The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size 
and
extremely solidly constructed.   There are two buttons on the left 
side of

the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button.  All of these buttons must be 
physically press
so they give tactile feedback.   But there is now physicale 
indication where

they are located.



There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used.  You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing.  I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off!  Still have to get the rest out.



The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite 
astonishing.

However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed.  The sound of the B is subtle  that is the
only way I can describe it.  All the frequencies are there that you
would need.  And the sound is wonderfully clear.



Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is 
interested.




Regards



Andre







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Re: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.

[Brent Harding]

Would these do Airplay? I heard about this Allplay thing, but if on iOS, 
we're restricted to the services they support and the local music library 
outside Apple Music, that might not be as good.



- Original Message - 
From: "Dane Trethowan" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:41 AM
Subject: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home 
AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.



If I were living in the U.S. I'd certainly be following these products up, 
the specs look fantastic.

http://www.hitachi.us/press/05142015

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Re: a gold wave question about inserting audio

[tim cumings]

you have to put your start marker at the place in the file where you 
want to insert the audio and then do a control v to paste the audio in 
to that position.




On 5/26/2016 9:46 PM, JOHN RIEHL wrote:

I have a recording and I want to insert audio from another recording at a
specific location. I've got the audio I want to insert in one window and the
recording I want to insert the audio into in another. I use the open and
close brackets to select the specific audio, then move to the recording and
the location I want to insert the audio and Paste; unfortunately the audio
is put at the beginning of the file. How do I insert a piece of audio in a
specific location using Gold Wave?

Thanks. ?

Re: B speakers arrived finally

[Brent Harding]

That's a brand I've heard a lot about online, but never got to actually hear 
how they sound. I imagine they don't sell many, if any at all, of their 
speakers in the major chain stores like Best Buy. One of their smaller 
Airplay systems might be nice though.


- Original Message - 
From: "Dane Trethowan" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally


I moved to get the B A7 system as quickly as I could given that B were 
recently taken over so Goodness Only knows what changes the new crowd are 
thinking of making given they're in the home automation business and not in 
the business of making products that sound good.



The B sound is lengendery if I dare say so myself.




On 25/05/2016 4:57 AM, André van Deventer wrote:
Got the rest of the tab out!  Very simple actually you simply have to 
open the battery compartment!


Very handy little control indeed.  All the functions work with fobar 2000 
which is what I am primarily use.


Still can't get over the sound of these little speakers!



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary 
Otten

Sent: 24 May 2016 06:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B speakers arrived finally

I hope you can manage to get your remote control working. I prefer it 
immensely to the controls on the speaker, because they have no tactile 
indication, and because you have to reach for the speaker in order to use 
those controls. Plus, with the remote you can move among tracks and stop 
playback. It's a very handy little unit.

Mary


Sent from my iPhone

On May 24, 2016, at 8:40 AM, André van Deventer 
 wrote:


Hi all



For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B mm1
speakers finally arrived today.



Getting started was rather straight forward.   I simply connected up the 
two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the USB 
port.

Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers.  It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.



The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size and
extremely solidly constructed.   There are two buttons on the left side 
of

the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button.  All of these buttons must be 
physically press
so they give tactile feedback.   But there is now physicale indication 
where

they are located.



There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used.  You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing.  I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off!  Still have to get the rest out.



The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite astonishing.
However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed.  The sound of the B is subtle  that is the
only way I can describe it.  All the frequencies are there that you
would need.  And the sound is wonderfully clear.



Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is 
interested.




Regards



Andre







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a gold wave question about inserting audio

[JOHN RIEHL]

I have a recording and I want to insert audio from another recording at a
specific location. I've got the audio I want to insert in one window and the
recording I want to insert the audio into in another. I use the open and
close brackets to select the specific audio, then move to the recording and
the location I want to insert the audio and Paste; unfortunately the audio
is put at the beginning of the file. How do I insert a piece of audio in a
specific location using Gold Wave?

Thanks. ?

Re: best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Dane Trethowan]

I don't own a Zeplin but I have owned an A5 and will have an A7 shortly 
all of which work in a similar way.



I also had the B Z2 which is similar.


The tricky part may be in the setup of the unit to connect to your network.


There are two ways of doing this, either by using the B IOS/Android 
App or manually.



Using the B App is probably the hardest for a blind person and - 
accessible as the App is - there's very little that can be done about it 
as one has to be able to see the lights on the front of the unit to 
determine what to tell the App.



The manual mode is easy enough, you joing the units own built-in Wi-Fi 
network, launch your browser and configure from there using the HTML 
interface or you can directly connect the Unit via a LAN cable and 
configure that way.





On 27/05/2016 9:45 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:

Do you own one and how does it work for a blind person



On 5/26/2016 4:03 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

The B Zeplin.




On 27/05/2016 7:01 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:

I haven't seen it what was it?


On 5/26/2016 3:49 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

That's already been mentioned.




On 27/05/2016 6:30 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:
What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use 
with an Ipod Touch















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Re: best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Singing Sparrow]

Do you own one and how does it work for a blind person



On 5/26/2016 4:03 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

The B Zeplin.




On 27/05/2016 7:01 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:

I haven't seen it what was it?


On 5/26/2016 3:49 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

That's already been mentioned.




On 27/05/2016 6:30 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:
What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use with 
an Ipod Touch

Re: best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Dane Trethowan]

The B Zeplin.




On 27/05/2016 7:01 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:

I haven't seen it what was it?


On 5/26/2016 3:49 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

That's already been mentioned.




On 27/05/2016 6:30 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:
What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use with 
an Ipod Touch










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Re: best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Singing Sparrow]

I haven't seen it what was it?


On 5/26/2016 3:49 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

That's already been mentioned.




On 27/05/2016 6:30 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:
What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use with 
an Ipod Touch

Re: best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Dane Trethowan]

That's already been mentioned.




On 27/05/2016 6:30 AM, Singing Sparrow wrote:
What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use with an 
Ipod Touch





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best air play speaker system/ doc.

[Singing Sparrow]

What is the best air play speaker system or speaker doc to use with an 
Ipod Touch

Re: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.

[Dane Trethowan]

Sorry that's all I saw.


Like so many other things I discover I found this by accident as I was 
looking for a completely different Hitachi product at the time.



These speakers are not available in Australia worst luck.


If I were in the U.S. I'd be going to the Hitachi web site at the very 
least to follow up availability etc.





On 26/05/2016 9:54 PM, Clifford Blackwell wrote:
I see the release is from 2015, but there's been virtually no news 
about these speakers since then.  Any newer info?
- Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:41 AM
Subject: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home 
AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.



If I were living in the U.S. I'd certainly be following these 
products up, the specs look fantastic.

http://www.hitachi.us/press/05142015

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Re: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.

[Clifford Blackwell]

I see the release is from 2015, but there's been virtually no news about 
these speakers since then.  Any newer info?
- Original Message - 
From: "Dane Trethowan" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:41 AM
Subject: Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home 
AudioSpeakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.



If I were living in the U.S. I'd certainly be following these products up, 
the specs look fantastic.

http://www.hitachi.us/press/05142015

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Hitachi Introduces High-Performance Wireless Whole-Home Audio Speakers | News Releases : Hitachi in the U.S.A.

[Dane Trethowan]

If I were living in the U.S. I'd certainly be following these products 
up, the specs look fantastic.

http://www.hitachi.us/press/05142015

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society of sound music service

[André van Deventer]

Hi all



Do any of you know anything about a music service called society of sound?
If I register my Bowers and Wilkens mm1 speakers with Bowers and Wilkens I
apparently get a 3 months subscription to this service.  Just wondering if
it is accessible?



Regards



André



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