Used to be my nickname at school, because the kids heard my surname as 'Goodyear', rather than Goodier :-))) Apparently my nephew got the same thing. Kids, nothing if not predictable! Colin

Peter, Yes, the adapter cable has an earth. That goes to the 'ground' connection on the amp does it? Is that to stop 'hum', or something else? Colin

Thanks Graham. I wondered if the B&W amps might be a tad more sensitive than other amps. Thinking about it, my brother might have thought that my amp is more recent than it is, as I've been reading that newer amps don't have a phono pre-amp, as it's not expected that people will have turntables. However, I got my amp in the era when

Hi, My sister is donating her BeoGram 9500 turntable to my mother, and I'm donating my hifi amp, as my sister still requires her B&O amp. I've sorted out an adapter to connect the BeoGram 9500's 7-pin DIN connector to the amp's phono inputs. However my brother, who has an old B&O machine himself, has suggested there may be a