I have a bog-standard samsung BD-1600 and though a bit noisy and a tad slow, performs excellent. I paid 195$ now over a year ago. BD-technologie is still developing so I don't see the point in buying an expensive one just yet. Also have no need (yet) for DTS-HD or Dolby true HD. Sound is already very good on many BD player and I doubt the HD audio

Personally I spent more on B&O this year than I did the previous 3 years combined. Though I didn't buy any new big ticket items. I want to enjoy building my B&O system one bit at a time and don't want to fill up the whole house in one year. It gives me something to look forward to, plan and save up for. Constantly upgrading bits at a

[quote user="elephant"] We baby-sat some RedLines for a friend for 3 years - I loved them, but my wife did not. I know I should be decommissioned/expelled/excommunicated from BeoWorld for doing this, but I did read out *SHOCK* some of this post to her, and she said a hairdo would not be enough, and that as a minimum it would require an expensive

I used a BL1000 to do my radio station presetting.... there are threads on this forum explaining how to. Timer programming can indeed only be done with the corresponding MCP or BL5000/7000

Can be bought off the shelf. for example :http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/555-7574

[quote user="msinn"] Hi, at the moment I use my Mac Mini for audio only. It is connected throug an Airport Express and an DAC from Cambrige Audio to the aux in of my Beocenter 2500. The sound is excelent. I control iTunes via the Remote application for the iPod Touch. ( That's my two-way remote :-) ) I am experimenting to use the Mac Mini

[quote user="elephant"] The downside with PLEX is that while it plays video podcasts, it can not handle any downloaded iTunes videos/movies that have been DRM protection [/quote] DRM protection has been lifted by apple store, or am I wrong ?

[quote user="Peter "] One of the issues with Conas is that the cross over frequency is quite high and they are, to an extent, directional. Therefore the stereo idea is not daft. Not sure I would use them with Pentas as the frequency range will not be extended but each to his own. The Cona was very much designed to work with C/CX speakers as

I use a mac mini for playing music and have started to experiment with adding a (on loan from a friend) dac ...boy does it ever make a difference. (Also makes clear that some of the non-lossless songs need to be upgraded....) I do have an airport express/itouch combo in the bathroom right now and I confirm that the dac in the AE is really not up to

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/search.aspx?K=2%20pin%20din There is plenty of companies selling these, just google it.