[quote user="Matthew"]Have not paid the Collins St store a visit in a while. I'd be interested to know the scale of the rennovation. Any significant changes making it worth a visit?[/quote] I was in Collins Street yesterday: it is always nice to see the ladies, but only Anna was in - they have a new young salesman as well. The remodeling

Hi & welcome, I have been an Australian customer of B&O since the mid-Seventies; I am a cautious buyer and the people in the stores know I take a long time to make my decision. They have always ben courteous and informative and spent long hours in discussions with me - in other hi-fi or electronics stores you never get that kind of service.

Hi, I popped into the Collin Street store today but all they had was the mark III BV7-40 and the BV4-65 that was playing the Bond movie via a blueray player I have heard about the Visa card deal, but had not heard about any demo night

well we do have Beoworlders in Hong Kong, Malaysia and SIngapore if I can recall some of the old posts ... and then there is of course Australasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia

springbok is an antelope from Africa ... national symbol for South Africa ... and the name of some of their sporting teams ... but I am sure he means the skin of the animal and slip-covered means that the skin slides over the existing cushions - like a fitted sheet on a bed or a pillow case/slip on a pillow Ed~2, the ex-South African Elephant

welcome Matthew ! seems like we need another dinner soon to welcome all the new Melbournites !

[quote user="moxxey"]the Australian forum[/quote] I never knew there was one !

I was searching for beoworld ... and spotted a google entry for this site which sells web analytics ... they appear to have some stats on Beoworld and about us http://www.quantcast.com/beoworld.org#demographics I was amused that apparently we are less affluent than the norm ... they must have measured my wallet after I ordered the BV7 ... :-)

Moxxey - I was told that the blueray would be able to be set for the DVD discs to be multi-region but not the Blueray discs that of course could be nonsense based upon your experiences

Performed some more B&O store tests today Took along another 3 pairs of eyes Looked at a BV8-40 ... got everyone's thumbs up Looked at a BV7-40 Mk III ... passed the TIMELINE tests Conclusion ? ... there is unfortunately variation between installations in various B&O stores ... the vote of the additional 3 pairs of eyes is for the BV8-40