They're certainly familiar with B&O - they nicked the "wheel" control.

Flappo The Grate: don't confuse market share with quality look at bno , less than 0.1% of the market fer example and we all love them while microsuck have 90+% of the os market and still can't produce anything remotely approaching os-x even with their carbon copiers on full speed ahead apple = bno microsuck = amstrad Here we go...........

I spent all day Saturday in York with "the lads" on an end-of-season Jolly and I could have easily paid for three years membership instead.

Kevin: I've tried it with 3 amps. A BM4400, a BM3000 and a BM2000. The ones I'll probably be using are the BM200 and a BM2200 (not working, Yet!). I'm probably missing something here but if you effectively double the strength of your signal surely that means your main amp circuit has a lot less to do. Agreed - if the volume difference is

The ability to edit your own posts seems to be disabled in the Workbench Forum. Can we have it back please

Which amp are you intending to use to drive the passive speakers?? If the difference is as pronounced as you say it seems unlikely that is just down to a signal difference of a factor of 2 (6db).

Keith Saunders: Kevin, What you need to do is an Image backup which means everything on your new hard drive is 100% the same as the old. I suggest you use a product that I use called Drive Image from R-Tools, it works very well and you can even open the backup image up on another machine as a virtual drive. You can download it from HERE Keith.. I used

I've had a bit of a poke around on Beocentral and Beotech and it would appear Powerlink is single ended and has a signal level of 1Vrms max., while Audio Aux is again single ended and also has an output spec of 1Vrms max, 1 KOhm and an input spec of 0.25 - 2 Vrms max., 47 KOhm. Speakerlink connects at loudspeaker level and so would need attenuating

As an added incentive LEE should withhold his new password until we've seen evidence of his results! Good luck Alex

Kevin: Some interesting alternatives. Thanks for the links BTW I went for the 353 because it seems to be the one B&O use in their signal line and reviews I've read on the net favour it's clean sound especially when only 1 channel is used (apparently less noise that way). The supply voltage I'm working to is +/-12v and surface mount is