Interesting. I haven't heard the Axel, but I have a Soundsmith SMMC20CL+, and I have to agree that there is a stridency to the sound, even at this level of quality. A stridency that surprised me, to the point where I've been thinking of returning it. Ended up putting in the original stylus ... EDIT: However, I don't want to knock Soundsmith

Exactly, it is a sales-prospects harvester directed at people with minimal initial knowledge of the brand.

I don't think a website is "material" mobeyone. The criticism was at BeoLounge, not the main site, though I wouldn't mind if they would play some real music there. At BeoLounge there's crap music playing, there's the tedium of going through introductions, or navigating in a very cumbersome way, there's the repetition of

BeoLounge was useless. Just a very, very enervating way of presenting information.

¡Hay algunos que prefieren hablar con los que pertenecen a su propio pais!

[quote user="moxxey"] [quote user="The_Beonic_Man"] soundproof... some really good points raised in that post and I have often considered getting someone in to calibrate my BV7-40 (Mark III) [/quote] Guys, let's not get carried away here. Soundproof isn't talking about 'calibration' or fiddling with your settings

A hobby horse of mine. Are the TVs set up properly? When I brought my BV8 home, and connected it to my cable box, the image I saw was atrocious - pixellation, smudging, retardation - you name it. I then went into the menu of the cable box, and set up for RGB instead of PAL feed. (I'm using SCART). The image went to BEAUTIFUL. And as I have a Pioneer

Not certain what you're trying to compare, Beolife! With ATV you get a unit which displays YouTube, Podcasts (Video and Audio), accesses all the content on the iTunes Store (incl. HD-movies), accesses all content on other computers in your home, and which can also be directed to find music on designated servers, such as a ReadyNAS+ with multiple

If the sound quality from ATV is "unlistenable," then we had better throw away all our CDs, as the playback is in that resolution. If you have shitty files stored on the ATV, or which the ATV is playing back from a storage device, then the file decides the result. But if you have the music stored in lossless you're listening to CD-quality

B&O are very specific about ≤ 2V RMS, and the need for an attentuator if you have higher values. My processor has 2.3V RMS, measured, on the L/R LINE OUTS, and I didn't bother with an attentuator. But if you're well in excess of that, it's not worth it to take any chances, I think.