I'm 42. Sorry, haven't aged gracefully - no kids, but I do have a 19-year-old girlfriend. She shares my love of underground rock music, but isn't particularly enamoured of B&O.

I have around 6500 albums on CD and about the same on vinyl.

I'm just about to incorporate an Oppo universal disc player (multiregion DVD/SACD/DVD-A/HDCD) into my system. Most of these formats are clearly best connected to the BS3 via HDMI, but the Oppo website states that if a digital connection is used for HDCD then the BS3 will need to decode the data, whereas if an analogue connection is made, the player

I'm in the process of buying an SACD/HDCD/DVD-A player, since neither my BS9000 or DVD2 support these formats. What sound inputs can the Beosystem 3 accept? Can it take and decode both DSD and PCM audio over HDMI 1.2?

Audio buffs around these parts may know that there are two new CD formats being tried out in Japan: SHM-CD (pressed on a different type of plastic apparently assembled from crushed-up plasma TV screens) and Blu-Spec CD (cut with the same type of laser used to make Blu-Ray DVDs). The discs are not cheap, at about £25 apiece before postage, but

Sorry Puncher - did say it was a Mac Book Pro, but forgot that not everyone is familiar with all the different Apple models! So - BeoPort and Apple TV? How do they stack up for streaming music from my Apple laptop to speakers in link room TVs?

Certainly does, Puncher, and it's also the default import program for EZ Audio Converter (the USB turntable's software). If using the Beomaster 5 is going to mean buying Windows for the Mac, then I really can't be bothered with it: it's already grossly overpriced for what amounts to a 500GB hard drive. Maybe I'll go down the BeoPort

Thanks, Puncher. Any idea how I set the computer to rip using Windows Media Player and not iTunes?

Some useful info there BundOAlex, but iTunes doesn't offer WMA as an import option. How would I get that format?

I'm preparing to buy a Beomaster 5 to give me instant access to music via link room TVs around the flat. In readiness, I've already ripped a few hundred CDs via my Mac Book Pro, plus a number of vinyl LPs via a USB turntable. However, due to my unfamiliarity with ripping music, I've been ripping in 320k AAC rather than lossless. Now I notice