9 LEE: As we approach another milestone - our 2000th member, i'd like to reward that person with a little BeoWorld gift pack. So - if you are thinking of registering (at any level, it doesn't matter) then do it now! Lee Can I register a second time? ;-)

Andy, I know exactly that you're online - so come on, don't torture us any longer...... Marcus

You're right, Peter.

Hi Keith, for powerlink the shielding is even more important, as PL is not a balanced signal as ML is. I used the original B&O PL cable for speaker connections, but from my judgement a cat6 or cat7 should work as well. They are both S/STP cables, main difference is the bandwith of the cable (cat6 usually has 300MHz, cat7 1000MHz). Price difference

Hi Keith, the ML cable has three solid wires for the ground. The cat7 cable has a wire mesh for the ground. Use a brush to separate the wires of the mesh, then twirl them together and use a terminal to connect it to three wires of the ML cable. Alternatively you can solder them. If you use the method by crimping the RJ45 plug on the ML cable, there

Keith, yes, you can solder two pieces of cable together. The reason why I haven't done it is due to the looks :) The ground is necessary! Both ML and Ethernet have a shield that is used for the ground connection. This is the reason why it is essential that you use ethernet cable with a "real" shielding not only the aluminium foil shield

Keith, I don't have the color codes in mind right now. I'll expand my ML in the next days and will then take some notes which I can post here. For connecting more than one cable I used Wago micro connectors (http://www.wago.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-53EFFEF9-EA84D661/wago/style.xsl/gle_2634.htm) in the holes of the in-wall installation. For connecting

Hi Keith, the ML jack has 16 pins, but only 9 are used. The ML sense signal is not used, so the 8 pins of RJ45 are enough. Marcus

mecca: ... We can use CAT5 or CAT5E... No, you have to use S/STP cable (stands for Shielded/Shielded Twisted Pair and indicates that all pairs are shielded separately while the cable is also shielded). The "inner" shields are necessary to prevent crosstalk of left channel, right channel and data signals. the "outer" shield is necessary

Hi Frank, the sound is the same! I have about 120m of cat7 cable in the house for ML use (in addition to the 200m used for ethernet). I used std. RJ45 cat6 wall sockets with 2 connectors, one for ethernet (the right one) and one for ML (left one). So I use ML cables, cut them in two halfs and fit an RJ45 connector at the open end. Only problem is that