I blame PayPal for encouraging these idiot buyers. Sold a Beomaster a few weeks ago in 100% working condition. It arrives with the buyer who immediately puts in a PayPal claim stating that it is not working. Despite my best efforts to get him to co-operate on starting an insurance claim against the courier, he drags his feet nicely so that the deadline

Why Graham - they're not hard to pack and ship properly. It's a shame as the right channel sounds sweet :(

Oh dear....MMC3 arrived this morning and it had the left channel out. Currently waiting to hear if the seller will refund me without resorting to heavy-handed PayPal route. Shame, as the right channel sounded much better than my current MMC4. Anyone got a nice MMC2? There was one for sale a while back at Lifestyle I seem to recall, but is no longer

I broke up my Beosystem 5000 last year, and from memory got the following: Terminal 5000: £35 MCP5000: £45 Beomaster 5000: £110 Beocord 5000: £80 (I couldn't believe it either!) Beogram CD50: £ 110 Beogram 5005 (minus MMC4): Swapped for a Beosound 2 and A8 earphones.

[quote user="jldmelb"] Let me know when you reach your decision... I'm looking for a 4 [/quote] Will do :)

This is really interesting Alex. My time spent learning about the ear is a bit of a blur now, but I remember how the dB scale works. What I can't understand from what you've said is why at 20Hz you'd experience a sound that is twice as loud at 17.24m? On a log scale that would represent quite an increase in power - but where does this come

So are we saying that if we hooked a signal generator up to some Beolab 5s in a room less than 17ish metres long, and set it at 20Hz, a perfectly functioning human ear couldn't pick out this frequency? If we are then what is the point of going down to the limits of what a perfect human ear can achieve, if room size is always going to be a limiting

Thanks Chris If the MMC3 sounds better than the MMC4 then I'll keep the 3 and let the 4 go. Not keen on eBay though as have recently had my fingers severely burnt selling a Beomaster that the buyer claimed didn't work when delivered. Guess which side PayPal came down on despite a wedge of evidence that the item was functioning when shipped,

Thanks Peter - I shall look forward to listening to it when it arrives :) Might have an MMC4 surplus to requirements now....

[quote user="Peter "] Nice cartridge - similar to a 20EN as it has the same profile. [/quote] I have one of those on my BG4002 and it sounds nice. So is the 3 slightly better than the 4 then Peter?