Apart from PowerLink, the main difference is in the looks. If you go for the most common colour, the metal surfaces on 5500 will be brushed, while on 6500 they are polished. Some people prefer one and some people the other, but personally I don't like the brushed metal; the polished units look a lot more modern (and timeless at the same time) to

I was flipping through ancient forum posts and happened to come across this thread: http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/6655.aspx ...so it is very likely that the white surface on these speakers is indeed adhesive... something. However, something very odd must've happened to your pair if nobody else has heard of it shrinking & peeling! Perhaps

[quote user="Søren Mexico"]The bad news, I can make these funny little brackets, but each one will take me about 1 hour, if we are talking business and I charge my normal price for workshop works, then it wil come to USD 400.00 for one set (4 pcs).[/quote] This is pretty much what I was trying to say a number of posts and a few tears

Yes, page 56(!) was another good one (I try to coalesce my comments )

OK, I believe you... but on mine, the surface is so hard that I can't imagine it being any kind of vinyl. On the wooden ones, it is indeed real veneer, and I believe the base board material needs to be that much thinner in those (I have a tatty pair of those as well, oak I think, waiting on me to decide on their destiny). If you decided to go the

Great thread, I always enjoy quality photos of B&O innards I have a BM4000 as well, but now I'm not sure if I've ever opened it... it worked fine when I got it (even without apparent idle current problems) but has a noisy transformer, so I haven't really set it up for use anywhere.

[quote user="stevepe"]I may be in untraveled territory here, as I think the white cabinets are somewhat rare, the same as with the white beocenters. Has anyone ever removed the white vinyl and applied wood veneer? The aluminum trim on the back is flush, and might make a veneer look awkward, IMO.[/quote] I have never heard of vinyl coating

[quote user="Rich"]That is a nice property to have! Are the passive Pentas easily driven by a BM2400 or BM1900?[/quote] I don't have either; but they sounded fine connected to my Dirigent

I guess only B&O would know for sure, but here's one thread mapping serial numbers to year of production. That would date your pair to 1989, which would appear to make sense The Pentas aren't overly bright, that's for sure. Tired caps will exaggerate that, and I believe you would benefit from a cap replacement or upgrade - if the above

As far as I know all Beovox Pentas were the same type 6611. I'm sure they simply put the same crossovers in them that were installed in Beolabs manufactured at the same time, I can't think of a reason why your crossovers would've been replaced later. (The year on the type sticker is just a copyright year for the design, you need to check