thing is Leslie imo scratched examples are not always that much cheaper than nice examples over here!

How strange, and frustrating Jacques, I feel for you mate! Definately sounds like a noise issue! How do the little supply inductors look? They aren't unwound / distorted or otherwise in-effective are they? Have you looked at the crystal area I am sure it isn't impossible to have a minor stability issue that throws off certain functions...? How

There is a member (Craig I think?) who sprays BL1000's to good effect.

Congrats Martin, think you've earnt that!!!

does Beoworld know this chap then?

And he reckons it is rare edition lol!

back in the day, led's were merely indicators and nothing was capable of throwing a decent amount of light. I have absolutely no doubt B&O would use led's in todays turntables. Actually if anything I would say the white led's give out far more forward light than the orginal underdriven incandescents did and if not carefully done this

really nice Soren!

this is normal if I remember correctly. My personal opinion with this hifi is it is better left plugged in.

Yeah I think Lee is right, many of us left gutted but realistically we knew the odds and it is the fairest system. I hope everyone enjoys their trip and please Lee if you could possibly organise something for next year :-)