[quote user="moxxey"] You're kidding? 10%? That's going to add nearly another grand to a specced-up BV7-40?! Bizarre to be adding such a big price increase to your key products in a recession. A BV7-40, with stand and 7.2/7.4 is going to be nearly £10K. Am I right? [/quote] Well, look at the currency rates - DKK is quite tightly

Due to lack of anything better to do right now, I took a look in the VX5500 service manual to see how they original "VX sensor" might work. I got bored searching for it or its connections in the circuit diagrams, but found a note that said the only thing special with it was the plug wiring, and a referral to the service manual on MCL 2 C,

It should work just fine with both the Beocenter and the TV set to option 1 (i.e the BC will respond to audio commands, the TV to video commands). AV-TV then simply selects the AUX input in the rear of the Beocenter, and I believe the television will route there the source it would after simply pressing TV, which is the analogue tuner. AV-SAT would

[quote user="j0hnbarker"] Not so sure Mika - I had my Pentas shipped from Sweden to the UK in their original boxes and they arrived in mint condition! [/quote] Well of course there are some luckier, and some not so lucky shipments. There are actually a couple of original Penta boxes on German eBay (pickup only, though...): link As I see it

I have an 8000, so I may be biased, but if: you don't intend to connect active speakers don't intend to create a multiroom setup don't want 2-way remote control or fancy timers don't expect to get a lot of money selling it on ...by all means get an 8000 after making sure everything in it works. The cassette deck certainly is better than

You could of course ask the dealer if the original RIAA module for 6500/7000 is still available. You just snip a couple of jumpers in the Beomaster and then it plugs (or solders) in. I understand it is quite small with surface mount components so not very practical to build from scratch - as a DIY project, I'd definitely build it in the record player

[quote user="nmartin771"] I don't have this problems, I'm using Firefox ... [/quote] The buttons work for me with Firefox 3.0.10 (and other minor revisions) on Windows Vista and 2000 (edit: Linux as well). But another new problem is that most of the smilies won't render unless I add whitespace after them, and the same goes for

To tell the truth, the original packaging may not be that safe after all for shipping of individual units - when the stuff is shipped from the factory warehouse, they are on multiple unit pallets, probably wrapped together, thus safe to move around with fork trucks, and of course the cargo is "controlled". When you put a lone unit away in

The plug is nothing complicated. The pins are supposed to be connected 1-3 and 4-5. Pin 2 (in the middle) is not connected. You will need a 5-pin DIN plug where you can solder the connections (be sure to get the 180° plug version) or just use jumper wires for initial testing. For pin numbers, see for example here (ignore the extra pins, the numbers

Nice post. I can't call myself competent at comparing amplifiers - and I haven't really listened to anything less than 15 years old from the B&O repertoire - but I can second your opinion in radios in general. There has been a lot of work on tuners in the recent decade or two, but it has mostly gone into integrating them further and making