mecca: The end result may not be for a purist, but it sounds good to me. And that's what matters. Listening is an extremely subjective thing, and it's what's good for you that matters. Loudness does distort quite a bit though, as your sound profile turns into a hammock, with the midrange slouching. I use the tone controls when I feel that

I got confused too, when looking for it a while back. Found it at the bottom of the list of Beograms, though.

As a general rule, never use LOUDNESS, it distorts the sound. However - its function as used by B&O makes sense. From their explanation: The loudness function is used to compensate for the human ear's lack of sensitivity to high and low frequencies when you are playing at low volume levels. It "boosts" the low and high frequencies

Salt water and mobile phones ... I managed to kill two cell phones in one day's worth of sailing, some years back. You do have one heck of a paper weight, though!

The market was waiting for a phone, a phone is what it got. And there are quite a few users who are very happy with theirs. I'm personally pleased that those of us living in Europe will be getting the next iteration. But - when I used an iPhone, through WLAN, it was blindingly fast - which has me wondering about your connection. At any rate - check

Incredible that the dealers can't get this right. The bass in BL1 is pitiful compared to BL9.

I'm sure you mean "correspondingly wide BL7 to go with it."

Yes. It's simple to work around not having MUTE, but also quite nice to be able to quickly dampen the sound when desired. I'll give it a look.

Thanks Kevin - I'll give it a look and see what I can do!

Oasis: With the talk of release of BV7 in 1080p...how much would it cost to upgrade the panel of BV9 (non full HD) to that in full 1080p HD? And is it worth it? I would spend the money on an excellent projector and screen - where one really needs Full HD. Having that on a 50" screen is of marginal benefit.