or you could use the attenuated leads both Steve and I mentioned below - they attenuate a normal speaker out level signal down to line level for use with active speakers!

Two CD's arrived today - both Eddi Reader, "Eddi Reader" & "Angels & Electricity" Both lovely - nothing else can describe her, she has the voice of an Angel.

[quote user="moxxey"] [quote user="Puncher"] The BM5 has the audio card with masterlink/powerlink sockets etc [/quote] True, but these could either have been built in to the back of the BS5 and cables taken down the base/stand or the BM5 could have been a far smaller box. I can hide the Mac Mini under a small chest of drawers (as

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The BM5 has the audio card with masterlink/powerlink sockets etc. While this could have been a sold as a PC peripheral I suspect B&O would be plagued by set up/compatibility issues etc from users. Building it into their own PC gets around all of these issues and gives them control of the environment in which the audio card sits (with regard to noise

No doubt in my mind, the BS5 should have been self-powered, wireless and portable - today's MCP. I will go as far as saying that I think the "wired" BS5 is a lazy solution and think the fact that the MOTS feature is (artificially) only available if you own the BS5 is an indication of B&O's lack of confidence in selling the BS5

Wouldn't this be just monophonic?

No mention of prices in the flyer, it was pretty much a "come into my parlour said the spider to the fly" type glossy leaflet. There are prices flying around this forum, I suspect you know as much as I.

You could consider a Tortoise with brushes glued to its underside or alternatively employing a cleaner for 1/2 hour per day (this has additional benefit of while making a cup of tea for his/herself at halftime, they can bring you one too, saving you getting up to make tea as well as vacuuming)

It seems to me that you have powered speaker-outputs and therefore you'll need the attentuated cables Steve mentioned earlier for the BL8000's.