I suspect Peter's yer man

koning: In that case I think the beosound 5 is very overpriced From a circuit construction point of view I don't think it differs from many other B&O products, past or present. If you're happy with the sonic performance of your existing B&O kit then this will not disappoint. You could equally apply the "overpriced" arguement

Beottaku: Puncher: Beottaku: Congrats to the winners and let's keep fingers crossed right now til December 31st. Then you'll have missed it I believe December's draw actually takes place before Christmas on the evening of the 23rd (I can't check at the moment as the main site seems to be down) Sorry, I'm a newbie. Thanks for the

From Keith's fuller explanation below - the B&O designed card takes the SPDIF signal from the PC motherboard which then passes through the MAS3530 DSP chip (which as well as handling PCM audio data can also handle several flavours of Dolby decoding etc). It then arrives at the DAC (the already mentioned AD1852), the analogue output of which

koning: From my observations there is nothing particularly special about this audio cicuit which uses off the shelf components to provide the required solution. Oh In other words......it's just a fancy display with a premium price! Why on earth don't they use audiofile components!!!!! And i was told that the sound chip was a custom built one

9 LEE: It will take place on the 23rd, yes. I doubt we would have much of an audience on New Years Eve !! Lee The TimeFrame Observation Co. Ltd (Durham Division) has noticed that the countdown clock is wrong again!

Beottaku: Congrats to the winners and let's keep fingers crossed right now til December 31st. Then you'll have missed it I believe December's draw actually takes place before Christmas on the evening of the 23rd (I can't check at the moment as the main site seems to be down)

Congratulations to all prize winners! Do you know that I now have the above phrase assigned to a short cut key so that I don't have to re-type it every month. Sorry I missed all the fun but I was otherwise engaged, creeping about in the attic last night

Alex: Software 4.17 works perfectly well. In fact 4.24 does for most users... I'm sure Moxxey feels much better!