I really enjoyed your post, Austin. You're clearly a B&O addict!

B&O as a brand is a cult, and cults take care of their own. I really think that if you want B&O products to work with 3rd party products, without any issues at all, then you're asking for the wrong thing. One risk with cults is that they can become so insular that they are bypassed by events, and become irrelevant. I'd think that's

Hi Trip, What's the point with that post to Camshaft? Must say I don't think you're coming off that well there. In fact, it makes me want to raise a point. For a while you pretended to be a regular customer, now you have come clean as a dealer. You had your kitten phase where "they" helped keep you informed and now it appears you

Not long winded at all. Very interesting, and well done!

Well - Microsoft is doing some phenomenal work with interactive screens and screen walls - and that might be what they'll be pushing in their stores. Software/hardware solutions such as Seadragon, Photosynth and The World Wide Telescope are quite literally amazing. But it would have to be something like that for me to even bother. And given the

And what they should have told you, Terry, is that with acoustic lenses in your front speakers, you do not need a centre channel speaker. Though I'm not entirely certain whether the BeoSystem 3 can process for that option. Anyone know? Phantom Centre being distributed to the Front L/R speakers with BeoSystem 3?

The latest update of AppleTV's software has a nice upgrade. There's now a 1080iHD option when you set video resolutions, and now there's no doubt which to choose between 720p and 1080iHD. Superior stability to the image when I'm watching HD movies downloaded to AppleTV.

On the 4th. Have you updated? You have to set Remote Buddy to download updates.

You'll see a pair on the shelf here, under the Helicopter, from Andy's visit to B&O. Frede Kristensen showed them to me, and told me these were very early dispersion "lenses" for the upper sound frequencies, with small drivers aiming at cones that would spread the sound. Very nifty, and actually a precursor to the acoustic lens