Flappo The Grate: if you poseurs really want to pose , don't buy bno , buy some high end krell , martin-logan , burmester , mark levinson , wilson audio ,goldmund , koetsu etc makes bno look quite frankly common , ducky !

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I am still not sure what the point you are trying to make is. Looked at in pure, objective 'Bang per Buck' terms B&O have never been at the head of the pack, and to be honest they have never set out to be. It doesn't matter what you buy, be it clothes, cars, jewellery or AV equipment the mass-market mainstream alternative will always

Flappo You are undermining your own argument by not engaging with what everyone is saying. B&O didn't made their own tubes in CRT days, and they have always cost a lot more than the competition. So the current situation doesn't change anything in that respect. I currently have a soft-spot for CRT that means I won't be going to flat panel

Graham1982: I have a friend who is an investment banker and is lucky enough to own a Ferrari and I have been lucky enough to take it onto a test track on a few ocasions. However, despite the fact that it looks nice, it costs a fortune to service. Often annyoing things break in it - ie the electric windows blah blah blah. Therefore, whilst it would be

There have been a few threads here that cover this vary topic. Our living room B&O TV is even older than yours (LS5500), but I remain to be convinced that any modern flat panel represents a significantly better way of watching SD television which is the bulk of what we watch. I think that time will come, but there is no pressing reason for you to

Another option would be to consider a second hand pair of Beolab Pentas.You would need to choose carefully as they can suffer from foam rot, but they would meet your needs nicely. It's worth having a browse in the products secton here or on beocentral.com as some of the older B&O speakers may meet your needs too, eg, Red Lines or the larger

Slept like a baby throughout the whole thing! Simon

Congratulations on your freebie. You will be pleasantly surprised how good it sounds when you get it going! The speaker cables are 2-pin DIN male at one end female at the other (assuing you have a set of B&O speakers), you can use the 5 pin DIN Tape in connector at the front to connect a CD Player, you can buy suitable RCA to DIN converter leads

Have a good one mate.... Simon