Well Mika, yes the setup would work much better in an acoustic chamber. I found the website showing how to assemble the microphone element. For $3 you're buying just a little capsule element. If you look around, especially on diyaudio.com, some people sell the mic element along with a calibration file for about $30. You can then load the calibration

Snoopy if you upgrade your membership you can access all three penta factory service manuals, which have the schematics of both the amps and the crossovers in them. Mika if you look at that zaphaudio website link I posted earlier, you'll see John as measured some pretty nice frequency response plots in his own living room. The software he's

Snoopy, I certainly don't believe in speaker wire snake oil (as my signature says - 'skeptic'). Electrolytic capacitors can certainly degrade enough over 20 years to create an audible difference. It's a somewhat random degredation though, and it's very likely that electrolytic caps from 30 years ago are still working fine. If you

Puncher have you been to the US? Every car in Europe is small, frugal, and efficient compared to the mammoth soccer-mom SUV's littering our roads over here. Grant it they all disappear when gas hits $3 a gallon, but now that gas is less than $2 a gallon again they've all reappeared. If I recall gas by you is over $8 a gallon, no? Austin

Hehe a series of people like the olympic flame. I'm still laughing...

Yes bentleyman, the MCP's are very robust functionally. They can be disassembled relatively easily, and even the wheel mechanism can be taken apart and cleaned. The only problem is the hinges are often loose on ones that weren't taken care of. Unfortunately I'm guilty of having bought the last set of hinges available from b&o stock.

Hey everyone, I remembered this when I saw the thread about b&o in regards to the recession. I noticed there was a small thread in the North America forum where some poeple mentioned how they spent their gift cards. Were the gift cards only sent out in the US? For anyone who doesn't know, in November b&o sent out to everyone on their mailing

Ironically I think the problem might be that the new date and time is a moment when most of us are free, and therefore not sitting in front of a computer on the beoworld forum. I know in my case the reason I was able to attend the old prize draws was because I was stuck on a library computer at that time of day, so I was bound to watch. On a weekend

Oh yes, Bulgarien's page was very good. If replacing the capicitors with polypropylene ones, the actual brand or quality doesn't really matter though. The only problem with cheaper made in China polypropylene caps is that sometimes they aren't truely polypropylene. Using inexpensive ones is fine as long as you buy them from a reputable supplier

Hi Puncher! I know several crossover experts have said that the 3-way crossovers are still ridiculously hard to design even today, and also that crossover designs have definitely changed in the past couple decades. I wasn't really implying that b&o alone didn't know what they were doing; I'm saying I think there was an overall lack of