Spotify is almost completely closed, and the only ones able to build such an app for the BS5 would be Spotify themselves. I doubt they would have any interest given the market base - and on the other hand, they couldn't make it integrate with the user interface without B&O opening up the internals for them, another unlikely event. After much

Wood. Some of the modern speakers in wood would be outrageous. And I mean real wood, not just some tacky grille job.

Remember the amount of technology a BL5 contains. It is very likely to contain some ICs in BGA cases for example, and they are practically impossible to replace and/or resolder if a fault develops under them - there's nothing you can do except replace the entire PCB. Of course these complex modules may develop more conventional faults that could

Having nothing better to do, I desoldered the remaining metal shield from the front end. Looks like the lady(?) at the assembly line didn't have one of her better days. I resoldered everything there as well as some dubious looking spots on the IF section (I know, should only touch one thing at a time...). At first it worked! But after the receiver

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Yes, I noticed that the component values don't quite agree with the schematic and there's not much info on the front end in general. I realized I can remove the bottom cover of the front end without taking it out entirely... only to find yet another metal cover soldered on the PCB The anode voltage of the second EF184 was a bit high, 160V (spec

Cleaning the varicap contacts improved the selectivity a little, but it still doesn't work properly. Voltages on both grids of the ECC85 are somewhat off. Can't see anything obviously wrong on the component side of the frontend, but this green ceramic cap looks odd, as if it was missing half of the top layer. Even the markings seem to be cut

Good to see positive experiences every once and a while! Coming up with the solution and deploying it must've needed a lot of effort.

Well it worked great in the beginning, so I don't suppose it is an adjustment problem. It's the same two stations all over the scale so I guess the oscillator just isn't properly controllable. I have a 100 MHz analogue scope so I hope it is enough to make sense of it. And the valve sockets still give trouble at just about every IF valve

Odd. I was actually looking into registering an .ee domain some time ago and the rules seemed very strict - owner needed to be a company registered in Estonia, with an Estonian citizen as the administrative contact, etc. That requirement seems to have been relaxed now, and people are taking up the domains. Seems funny that B&O are only now waking