Whatever it is, it is surprisingly compact and light to carry a B&O logo, which actually pleases me, and I'm sure the mailman didn't mind either...

...except that it's not! I've never seen one of these handy adapters before. I'll keep it in case I ever need to send something to the UK

Hmm, this could be a problem...

Why, thank you! It seems I don't even need to pay for this!

So, time to whip out the ol' Leatherman and find out what it might be. It's nice how B&O puts those arrows on the boxes so you know which side should point to the floor

...except back in those days, you actually had to leave your house to buy stuff! This morning my doorbell rang, and the mailman handed me this: (lamp gratuitously framed in to please Jaff)

[quote user="camshaft"]Was that an actual piece of B&O furniture?[/quote] Yes it was, but not too well known. It was a modular system (as you can see in one of the last pictures) you could build up the way you wanted. And I have no flippin' idea what Verner Panton has to do with anything when general design people sell B&O, but

All of the original MMC cartridges will fail some day - even if they sat unused all these years - and it can happen during the course of a few LP sides. I really wouldn't put much value on a working original MMC, other than that you won't need to get a new/refurbished one until in the unknown future, instead of right away... Of course every

These are both embedded systems. The OS underneath really doesn't have much to do with the potential development prospects of the application layer, nor should you even need to know or care what it is. B&O may well have developed an application framework that allows them to use the same code base on both platforms. On the contrary, I'd expect

My white LX6000 is plastic - with an aluminum surrounding strip, which seems to be real metal.