I do not know how old your BL8000s are but the BL1s are not produced any more; so be aware not getting speakers that are older than yours... I would not buy any electronic device which has already been replaced by something new (except BS 9000 and BS 3200 ;-) ); the only reason would be a very very good price; I do not know about the pros and cons of

already tried new batteries?

I use TriTag (Mac) to check EVERY id-Tag before copying the files from my Mac to the BM5; and I only use mp3; as I wrote before: within iTunes everything fine - within B&O problems; I searched through many threads and everyone says that iTunes writes the id-Tags - must be true but not for every single file/mp3 I have to admit that even within iTunes

I think it's a problem with your id-tags; those have to be correct; I don't know from which system you're coming - on my Mac within iTunes everything was correct - within BM5/BS5 some tracks haven't been shown correctly since I checked the id-tags! Regards Elmar

If your room is big enough - buy the larger TV; 32 inch that was in the 80s; bigger screen needs good qualitiy of your TV-signal; if you don't get HD be carefull... regards Elmar

Me too - never would by music (or software or games) in an digital store; I want to have "something" in my hands not only data nowadays with clouding the threat off data-loss has gone but nevertheless I would like to have "the album" not only a directory with files; same with books - have you read a book on a digital device?

oder die besorgst dir eine BS5/BM5 - klappt prima!

I've got the BL3 with my BS3200 - fits perfectly

hello! Its BeoSOUND 5 not BeoCOM 5!

because of the many possibilties doing the "set up" of the BL5s - is there a chance doing this on my own or do I always need an expert helping me?