[quote user="burantek"] [quote user="bayerische"]It sound awesome to be Barnacked![/quote] Oh Andreas! ...you already are sorta' Barnack'd! [/quote] I know. Oscar Barnack

The "RedWine" colored B&O looks sweet! Used to love that color, but never owned any B&O in that color, don't think I could get it past SWMBO.

Interesting links indeed!! There can't be another industry filled with as much bullS*it as the HiFi/HighEnd industry....?

[quote user="KingOfSnake"] @Bayerische - corrected with a sw update if I recall. 9's are more than suitable for 90% of environments IMHO, but if you have available funds and want that extra 20% then wny not? [/quote] No, according to B&O I need the internals completely replaced. No Hardware support! How fun isn't that? My operation

Looks awesome!

[quote user="hotknife"] Traded my pair of BL8002 and BL2 for a new pair of BL9. [/quote] Great choice! The BV9's are really nice.

The reactor blast is seriously worrying.

Jaff, explain yourself! It sound awesome to be Barnacked!

No point using a dac, sice the Beolab 5's will use their internal DAC either way. Feeding them the digital SPDIF signal will take away one additional step in the signal processing. You can control them directly with a remote, and sync the sound level, but make sure they are not early versions if you buy used. Mine are early versions, they have the

Let's hope so! Customer service has been arrogant to say the least in the past.