Only to be expected for a CEO. I am sure his settlement was good and, in my view, he deserves it. I wasn't thinking of having a whip round for him!

No! Spray paint!!

Having put up with my SMMC20EN being black for a while and it annoying me, I decided to do something about it! What do you think?

Does it have the arm belt on? It should do as there is no reason to remove it. It rather depends on how good you are at fixing things next. If as useless as me, get someone good to look at it! If you have the correct equipment, the service manual complete with flow charts is on site. This is not a Beogram for beginners though!

They are wonderful remotes when used in a two way system. In my view, the best remote ever made. In a one way system - i.e. all B&O since the Beosystems 4500, 7000 and 9500, the Beolink 7000 is no better than a difficult to use Beolink 1000 and very likely to have faults. Mine now has new batteries and is once again telling me the time next to my

Very interesting! Sounds like some sort of data interference getting through probably from the datalink. Probably an earthing issue like the Beolink PC2 - anyone care to guess which pins need connecting? Probably one for the intelligent souls in the Workbench!

We are missing many 70s user manuals. If anyone can let us have copies of some of these, please contact me. At present, Beocenter 4600, Beomaster 2200 and Beocord 5000 (4715) are needed. Best wishes,

The last time I looked, you could still buy a Beolink 5000 though.

Sorry - don't know! The service manual is on site but I can't find the answer!! The picture settings are there but I cannot say back light. Just brilliance.

The centre speaker is mono and is integrated with the command centre/VCR. Nothing to write home about! The screen is superb.