Sorry for lighting a match in a petrol station, but I prefer Audis over Mercedes in terms of styling

AT: But, in the sound quality aspect I can easily challenge BL5 with this simple system: ML390s CD player with for examle a simple Siltech cabeling and with the active Martin Logan Purity speaker. This system is less then a 1/10th of the pricerange You asked for, and it's a complete system, which includes a really high end CD player also. For £70k

AT: This is - for me - an "odd one out", because I think this one is the truely and really overpriced B&O product. Today, in this price range there are a lot's of real quality products, which has a better sound quality, and, today, there are a lots of speakers, which looks at least as good as a B&O product. And therefore the audiophile

I'm not sure I agree! Something can only become a timeless classic once it's aged, and the few products currently in the range old enough to do so are classics, namely the BeoLab 8000s, BeoSound 9000 and even the BeoSound 3200 (the design anyway). I expect the BeoVision 8 will become a 'classic', along with the BeoLab 5s and BeoSound 4.

To be honest I'm not sure, I've just made suggestions as I've never had a chance to play with two at the same time, but I'm sure someone such as Peter would be able to help. Sorry.

It's on the cable cover panels Failing that, just try swapping them round until you've tried all the combinations. Failing that again, it may be time to call your dealer out!

No it's nothing to do with that! It's just to do with the sonic signature of a speaker. The way the BeoLab 4s sound is just different to the BeoLab 9s. The 9s are the best speakers B&O have made with the exception of the 5s (which is really saying something), and the BeoLab 4s, well, aren't exactly. I did try using mine as rears in a surround sound

You could try putting the link room 7000 in option 4 (on a BeoLink 1000, SOUND, 4, STORE whilst in standby) but I'm not sure if this would work. I'm not sure how MCL would behave in this situation, but you may be able to do it with MCL > ML converters. Really, the 7000 wasn't designed as a link room product, the BeoLink Passive seems more what you're

You definitely don't want to drive them with tube amps. Massively efficient and sensitive, simple speakers are suited to tube amps which have a very low power output, and the Pentas are the complete opposite! You need a pretty beefy amp to get the pentas sounding good. The one in your 9500 won't cut it, and something like a BeoMaster 6500/7000 or a

Well if it's not Intel Mac compatible, but states it is Mac compatible, that doesn't leave any other 'recent' Macs other than the PowerPC ones Haven't seen it working on a Mac yet, but I'd hope it's a bit more reliable than the BeoSound 2 on a Mac...