Magnet size depends entirely upon the magnet material - ferrites or rare earth (NdFeB). Also the ABR's may not work quite how you think - they do not necessarily follow the movement of the main driver, they are more akin to a tuned port in that they can extend the lower bass frequency responce by as much as an octave below the cutoff frequency of

I hope everything goes spiffingly well tonight - I'll be back around 11:30 to find out what happened (and what I won)

Well I shall be drinking the terrible " Trophy Bitter " elsewhere whilst getting thumped at a Pub Quiz and will sadly miss the live draw I shall however read the proceedings with great interest and squinting eyes upon my return home. I look forward to tales and pictures of great factual content (Mr. Moulton) and great frivolity and entertainment

Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren - Anthology (originally Starsailor). Can't recommend the man highly enough.

benjnz: Ah well after moving from sunny Durham to sunnier NZ I take a few extra steps. When we're lucky enough to have power http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=202&objectid=10487752 I find it useful in times of big storms to happily unplug all my B&O stuff from the wall sockets. Now if there was a crytaldonglehifiwidgetfandangledongle

Tom: ???? Not my pair of shoes = not my cup of tea = doesn't float my boat.................. but if your shoes are particularly large they may be referred to as boats. It could be an English thing or it could just be me!

Jandyt: Yes Tom, but your pair of shoes might not be our cup of tea! I thought, because of the shoe metaphor, you may have gone for " not floating our boats"

Alex: Bear in mind though that the BeoLab 2 is servo controlled , meaning the amplifier compensates for any 'wrong' movements by the speaker cone which takes up quite a lot of power. ....... although if frequent reports of the BL2 being "slow" are true, then not as well as it could!

Just think - 850W is almost a single bar electric fire - imagine the energy being radiated - now imagine 850W of "music" power firing into your ears in a confined space! You would die! It is a measure of "headroom", i.e. ability to handle huge transients. The only speakers that bang out that amount of power for real are sound reinforcement

Reminds me of the old joke about the guy walking along the street with a case which is 10cm square and 6m long.A stranger approaches him and asks "Are you a Pole Vaulter"? ............... To which he replies "No I'm German but how do you know my name is Walter"?