[quote user="rmclachlan"]My concern relating to outsourcing is not a quality issue but an economic and social one, where the West largely removes manufacturing from their economies and leaves a large tranche of unemployed people who could easily be making those same products, or beome dependant on service industries which produce nothing[

[quote user="Søren Hammer"] [quote user="Evan"] [quote user="Søren Hammer"] One of my old friends who is also 18 years old like me has become very interested in old-school stuff. She went nuts when I told her that I could use a slide rule and begged me to learn her how to make all arithmetic operations. [

[quote user="Karel Uyttendaele"] There seems to be the understanding here that you need your Wifi network in order to stream music to the BeoLit 12. That is only the case if you want to stream your iTunes music from your PC/Mac to the BeoLit. You can however wirelessly stream directly from your iPhone/iPad to the Beolit without using your

Rumour has it (a store person) that the BeoLit 12 will be available in Australia in 2 weeks (bet its 3) for AU$900 versus the BeoSound 8 which is AU$1,500. Any confirmations m8s ?

[quote user="Evan"] [quote user="Søren Hammer"] One of my old friends who is also 18 years old like me has become very interested in old-school stuff. She went nuts when I told her that I could use a slide rule and begged me to learn her how to make all arithmetic operations. [/quote] Wait a minute, so your telling me I can

[quote user="DoubleU"]Nice try, Elephant. But it will still not work. [/quote] Not a problem - I know there are people much more knowledgeable than me on this forum !

[quote user="benoit"]And tell me if I'm wrong : if no Bluetooth, what is the meaning of carrying it. Airplay needs the home wifi network, so it's useless to take it with you out of the house, unless you use a cable to plug your iDevice.[/quote] :( I got carried away in my enthusiasm ... I had pondered on the issue of how they would

[quote user="koning"]price [/quote] did I hear him say US$11K for the BV12 and US$9K for the BS3 ?

[quote user="GrahamHare"]AV2 (Scart) - nothing V Aux Sonos Connect A1 digital input - V.AUX[/quote] I wonder if the absence of a video cable/signal is inhibiting the recognition of any accompanying digital audio signal Looking at your setup I was wonder of we can test that theory by removing the SKY audio scart, plugging in the SONOS, and

[quote user="burantek"]Here is a CURTA SITE if anyone is interested.[/quote] Just looking at their main poster of an exploded/exposed Curta Mark I reminds me how beautifully engineered they were and how complex they were.