The reason the cinema screens are high up is because otherwise the seating area would have to be steeper, thus needing a lot more height for the entire theatre room. Otherwise you couldn't see anything because of the people in front of you. From an ergonomic point of view, needing to tilt your head back is bad. If you can avoid that, by all means

Unit failure isn't much of a problem if you run the server on for example Linux software-based RAID. If the machine dies, just get another generic PC, put the drives in there and off you go. But, it still isn't totally safe - a friend of mine lost his RAID array because another drive failed before the rebuild was complete. A lightning strike

Aki Kaurismäki: Lights in the Dusk BV7-32 + BL7-1 + BL8000 Had this on my VDR for almost two years before finally watching it tonight. I think the story line is the lightest and most obvious of this trilogy, but the cinematography is first class. It could be an Edward Hopper painting.

We of course have the manuals on site for silver & gold members - but no need upgrade just for this, as you can still download the user manual for Beosystem 4500 from www.bang-olufsen.com (customer service -> user guides). It's of course centered around Beomaster 4500, but your 3500 should work the same. You can't switch the speaker pairs

Duran Duran - Come Undone

All Beomasters (the ones I have anyway) stay in standby once power is restored. Anyway, even if this was the only purpose, the implementation seems totally silly. Once "on", the feedback loop of the buffer opamps - which essentially should be a straight connection for unity gain - goes through two series connected 4066 switches (with a 10k

Yes - haven't yet tried it myself, but replacing the caps alone would be easy and probably very much worth the time and trouble. I'm not so sure about the opamp replacement, but it can always be left to a later date.

Indeed they do - just tried - and the circuit keeps the Beogram muted for maybe 4-5 seconds after you plug the power back in, well long enough for it to get up to speed before the sound comes back. But, still I don't see the point for this complication... it's not like people go about unplugging (only) their Beograms all the time, and during

Thanks for the report - enjoy them Ben! BTW, did you know that we like pictures?

Looking for stuff I could do the next time I'm bored, I was reading yet another of Die_Bogener's excellent workshops, this time on the Beogram 6500 internal RIAA amp . In the schematic, I don't quite understand what the designers were trying to achieve with the mess including the 4066 analogue switches, as I'm not a big fan of routing