I think it should be interesting!! Ed is a really great guy and an important part of Beoworld! He also has quite a collection of B&O as well as a beautiful family! Definitely worth a photo diary!

Frank Rizzo: Hi Peter.... Even after reading the ML/MCL book over and over ....I still do not understand how you can take Speaker level inputs and go IN to a ML/MCL converter as those speaker slots are for speaker OUT..... I know how it works the other way...from converting ML to MCL....cause it's basically an amp.... How is that?? thanks, You may

It also sounded fine at 192kbps to my ears - which are aging by the minute!!

Interestingly, the Beoplayer Beta has a setting to rip CDs in uncompressed form. Did it have this before?

Slightly out of my price range! The DB5 is beautiful I agree! If I could have anything though, an XK-SS would be my choice - rare and beautiful and a curvier E-Type - smaller as well which I prefer. There was a beautiful one at the Classic Car show the year that mine was on the Triumph stand. He wouldn't swap though!!

jandyt: Quite supprised, Peter that you are not as impressed as the other two with the on board speaker quality. Might you be expecting to much from it? Have you had a "Stereo" 'phonecall yet? Spoke to Ian at King Street today and he said, when I asked him if he had one in "We have one on order for you Andy" Ha! Andy T. As said

Keith Saunders: The more I read about the Serenata, the better I feel this is going to be a winner for B&O.. Peter, your account of the music player is very interesting particularly where you believe the quality is far better than the ipod. So, a question, can you sync outlook contacts with the phone ? Yes, though I have not done so as it means

In summarythen: As an MP3 player - 10/10 - simply the best I have heard. Very easy to use though not without a few limitations - no cue or review during tracks. Not a problem for me but not as flexible as an iPod. As a music system - 5/10 - it is amusing but I would never use this facility simply because it doesn't reproduce music well enough and

It does play AAC tracks by the way! Just put on a 256 AAC - it doesn't seem to quite know what to make of it! It doesn't transfer the tags - just the track name. Probably is a fix for this - maybe when the promised iTunes plug in is released. Have not managed to get protected AAC to play though! Not sure that AAC is a good idea as the stereo

Well I have now had it for a few hours and will be majoring on the music playing abilities and the software. I have got it talking to my Mac, though the Mac thinks, somewhat perversely, that it is a camera! It does however allow me to transfer music tracks - I am working on album covers! So far everyone who has seen it thinks that it is an MP3 player