Alex: The Pioneer displays are much more impressive, although I saw one of the latest Pioneer panels round at my uncle & aunt's house the other day, and it wasn't all that good! Far over 'bloated' colours (reducing the colour control just made it look washed out, but still somehow 'over compensated'), and very poor detail

I'll take a photo of my black BV8 and Beosystem 6500 when the walls of the room they're in are painted. You'll have to share a photo of your all white setup when that's all set up. Imagine blue or red BL3s with the white one ...

If I had a white Beosystem 7000 I would be all over this one -- but fortunately I have a black one (6500). BV8 and that go very well together. In my opinion, BV8 is one of the most beautiful TVs ever.

Not sure whether you can link playback, but you can link the DVDs to have them show in sequence. It appears they are working on a sequential playback function. http://bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1856

That's curious. I have never had any trouble connecting to the Apple Extreme, whether at home or work. Which protection protocol are you using? That could be it. I've found that the simplest is to write the machine ID number into the Access Control of the Airport Base Station, and not bother with passwords, etc. If your machine's ID is in

In Entourage, Ari (the agent) has a BeoSound 9000 in his office. But every time I see it there are no CDs loaded -- the prop manager probably didn't know how to do it. (Can't tell for certain, but I don't think it's plugged in.) Anyone see the speakers Ari has?

Peter: soundproof: YET - the B&O engineers did change the amplifiers for the mid and top of the BL9s from regular ICE-amps to hybrids, ostensibly to achieve an even greater verisimilitude in the reproduction of sound. And that's worth thinking about. Or was it that they had a rather good speaker chassis called the Beolab 1 around which was easier

Alex: Sure you don't get the same earth-shattering bass you get from the Lab 5s, but I personally think the highs and mids especially from the BeoLab 5s are still a leap up from the 9s. Unless you've had them side-by-side, and level matched during playback, it's really hard to say which is the most precise. On the face of it you'd think

The BL9s are very good speakers - I have heard them in an ideal setting, though - in B&O's listening room (not the BeoLiving room, but the listening room in the sound department). There I got to play a large selection of tracks from my reference CDs while listening to the BL9s. They are very precise and detailed, pleasant to listen to and a

I see that my post above could be a little more nuanced. My comment was mostly in response to the fact that quite a few inquiries here concerning "What speakers should I buy?" tend to end up with "Get BeoLab 5s!" Totally agree on the ability of the 5s to create a soundstage that is not anchored in two L/R sources (the speakers).