Lots of news - worth taking a look at this link. http://www.macrumorslive.com/

[quote user="PhilLondon"]Regarding subsciption services, all the record companies are pushing for this. That was what available before iTunes store was created, and was not a success. No subscription services have really been successful. iTunes and its pricing model has shown what people want: To own their music. p. [/quote] Agreed there,

They're asking questions relative to where they've been headed; to what they could do with BeoSound 5; and to what other providers in the market are offering. There's been talk of connecting BS5 to Pandora-like services, with "millions of tracks of music." But I'm not interested, since these tracks are in lousy quality, and

Finally some light seeping through in the decision making process ... Can't really see why they need to bother with a survey, though. Fairly self-evident where the market's headed and where B&O should be.

Someone didn't figure out that you can pipe both the BeoSound and the BeoVision through the same speakers ...

[quote user="TripEnglish"] This continues to be one of my (many) gripes about Apple TV. Do I really need to flip on a 65" screen to browse music? (Doesn't actually bother me, but a designer's eye certainly questions this necessity). An OLED screen would allow only a portion to come alive to allow users to browse music. [/quote

The analysts, and previous B&O management, have/had it all wrong when it comes to the shops. The plan was to grow incrementally, relative to the number of new stores added. There was some attrition, but the growth projections were based upon a steady increase in the number of stores. Several problems with that. First of all, let's be honest

I've made a little edit in my first post, but to make certain it's read. My experience with Soundsmith is limited to one cartridge, and it could be that my Beogram 4000 needs a refurbish. I did prefer the sound of the original cartridge to the new one, but that could also be a question of what I had become accustomed to, or personal preference

@Linder - aware of the Stereophile review. This is how the cartridge was mounted for the review. On my Beogram 4000, the SMMC20CL+, highly recommended for that deck, left me unmoved. I convinced myself that I'd made a significant upgrade when I first used the cartridge, not that unusual given the cost. But after a week's play it was replaced

I have BL3s up on the wall, about 15 degrees "behind" me, and 1.85 meters from the floor. In my room, placing them all the way at ceiling level would be way too high. I had a sound engineer in my listening room, someone who has recorded and mixed some world artists, including Vladimir Ashkhenazy, and this engineer was much opposed to having