Can't we all be friends? I'm with the good Doctor here - the world tends to be not so black&white. As I'm also in the position of moving with ease from my BL5 equipped and quite large listening room to my Beolab 5000/Beogram 4000/Dynaudio Focus 140 equipped reading room, which is also of a good size - I can attest to the fact that both

[quote user="yachadm"] It really puts them out when they understand that modern digital junk can't hold a candle to a 35 year-old 40Watt system. A 40 year-old system blowing away their brand-new 1000W digi-garbage . Menahem [/quote] You seem to be under the impression that Class-D is "digital"? In that respect, the D-signifier

I've asked Frede to take an occasional photo of the Beogram 3000 as it is being refurbished, as long as it doesn't disturb his work. Here's his starting point - the player as it was where I collected it. Here with a 9" tonearm and the SP8/9 pick-up. Will be fun to compare with the final result!

And it's not as if hindsight makes us see the truth. There were plentiful critics as it was launched, B&O being one of them - finally Struer let themselves get pressured into delivering units that were DAB-enabled, though they didn't believe in the format. Today, you can get Wi-Fi enabled memory cards for your camera ... That's right

I believe the 2009 version got the following modification: The "new" beolab 5 have a new volume chip and the software version is 3.00. From Keith Sanders in another thread. I'd think that the speakers have then had the PCB replaced? "The latest release is Software 3.00a and provides the following improvement is only for production

The delay in shipping was due to the difficulty of finding good packing materials. I actually spent quite a bit of time looking - these days, most stores are immediately compacting their cardboard shipping boxes (as I found out.) Eventually I got hold of a box with proper strength cardboard, and with a good size. I was able to pack the various components

Someone's gone to a bit of effort here: http://www.reelprosoundguys.com/bang_olufsen.html

I think more than just the stand owes a debt to B&O in that top picture. The entire redesigned Apple line of products fits right in with a range of B&O products, from the Beosystem 6500 onwards. Place an iPhone, iPad, Macbook or Cinema display together with a number of B&O products, and you'd think they were not only made for one another

B&O marketing communication is paralyzed with fear of offending any segment of the market, and therefore prefers to be product and feature oriented. The various markets review proposed campaigns, and some market always finds something to object to the moment a piece of communication tries to depart from the formula -- and one ends up with communication

Excellent work.