muck22: waltoninn: ... I bought mine through the B&O online website store ... where d'oes exist one? Do you have a link?! thx Whereabout's are you? They are available here for £79. Steer well clear of ebay, the vast majority you see there are fakes.

Beobird: If you really want a better performance you should buy a high-end cd-player and connect it with the normal anolog din cables to the lab 5's. If you connect such a player through spdif it won't use the DAC's from the high-end player. You need a pre-amp to control the volume. At the end you will have the best performance, but you

My word, we have some clever folk as members of Beoworld ....(I take it that jandyt wasn't involved) Well done chaps

ChrDH: Puncher: ChrDH: It is a good idea IMO, and you can still use the BS3000 for casual listening/radio, and have a CD-transport for serious listening. I think Peter uses a Beogram CD 5500 together with his BL5, try and ask him. best regards Christian I'm sure he would if actually had BL5's Ok, then it must be someone else, i just tought it

ChrDH: It is a good idea IMO, and you can still use the BS3000 for casual listening/radio, and have a CD-transport for serious listening. I think Peter uses a Beogram CD 5500 together with his BL5, try and ask him. best regards Christian I'm sure he would if actually had BL5's

beowhit: ................ a good deal was offered - 5 year warranty, free Serenata and they will load your CD collection on it before delivery if you order before 31st December........................ It's late, I've had a glass of wine or two, but does this sound like a product that is going to fly of the shelves or something they are going

PhilLondon: I was more talking about the Apple experience here! Ideally the BS5/BM5 would have a CD drive and you would be able to rip by pressing the Record button on your Beo4, like it works for every other Beo product. The backup is another issue, if your house is on fire or get robbed, you might lose your back up as well. So there cannot be a good

PhilLondon: And those with a Mac can use the wonderful time machine using their time capsule! Setup your backup in one click, once and for all, and forget about it until you've got to find that document that you have just deleted/lost/overwritten... Just bough 25 sounds of itunes, well not exactly bought, but upgraded them to iTune +, just in case

Craig: Alex: The easiest option is just to back everything up periodically. I backed up my MacB last night, just in case anything should happen to it. Also, as you say, buy the damn CDs! Thats what I do, if only for my music and pictures. Anything else on the PC can be retrieved elsewhere. Also backup my laptop for work once a week. Craig To jbg's

wonderfulelectric: Ermmm... So why is there usually a lot less jitter when using a 24bit/96khz source on the same DAC? You have also forgotten one thing. Data retrieval from a hard disk is much easier. There's like a buffer before ripping cds on to a hard disk and a buffer upon retrieval of music info from a hard disk. Also again, cd players don't