I'll take whatever respect I'm due. Don't get too offended by my comments, by the way, but I'm still reading that you'd like them to have polled either some different consumers or else to have massaged the data. Your definition of luxury is somewhat wanting, and as anyone who has studied the evolution of luxury will tell you there

TerryM: That does not follow at all. Is one really to believe that Linn is better known in the USA,as a luxury brand,than either Mark Levinson,or Audio Research? One does wonder who they sampled. Cerwin Vega,and Samsung are luxury brands? Is Burmester,or Gryphon even available in the USA? I'm sorry, but you sound like the politicians who'd like

Some commenters here are missing the point. The Luxury Institute shouldn't put in or remove anything -- all they have done is ask a number of high-end luxury consumers to state which audiovisual brands they appreciate, and then rank those findings. The fact that a number of brands don't appear on the list illustrates that these brands have done

Buy your Cubes from Frede Kristensen of Classic Audio. He recovers used pairs, takes out the tweeters and refurbished them, has the cubes repainted, including silk screen reprinting of the logo, and restores them to as new condition, for less than 380 pounds.

Essentially you've run the gamut of addiction from initial exposure to near indiscriminate abuse, and have now settled down into true connoisseur appreciation of the very finest of the brand!

Try to get hold of a proper Scart to Component cable and set up the TV for the component signal. That way you won't have any trouble with fit in the well, and you have the best possible image from component. svhs is no better than a composite image - while with a component signal you really get what the screen is capable of. (And HMDI is a further

Most "wooden" speakers are MDF. The majority of all speakers are boxes and the few who try to defeat the problems of the box shape are considered to make unnecessarily weird speakers by audiophiles who like the box shape without having asked whether it's ideal for sound. Here's a company as serious about sound as the people behind

Lee -- I guess you've picked up that I have my Beosystem 6500 connected to a BV8 ... And they're also available in white. Just sayin'

How much to the side are we talking? The viewing distance you describe will not present a problem. You notice it when you're standing above the BV8 on its floor stand, or when you're off to either side, walking past. But sitting as you describe, 3m away, won't be a problem.

Very nice. The shape of the BL2 in white, combined with the same shape and round baffles of the white BL3s will look spectacular with a white Beosystem 6500. If you're using the table stands you should do those in white or black satin.