The Beovox 5700's don't suffer from foam rot at all! Rubber surrounds

There might be a short in the speaker (e.g. speaker cable) which will cause the Beomaster to switch off automatically. Makes sense as you say it works with the speakers unplugged. There must be a short with the speakers.

I posted a post yesterday (B&O compared Marantz???) about my brothers new sound system which made him snub my B&O!! Now I know that he has Monitor Audio speakers with it. How do they rate? From their website it seems they only sell passive speakers. They use wood vinyl on their speakers . Surely they aren't in any league to B&O? He must

Thats the beauty of B&O, goes straight to your heart!

Thats probably the thing that irritates me the most is that he can afford to buy B&O yet he bought Marantz! Makes me cringe. Even my parents chucked their hifi system out so that they could use my BM 4400 and Bevox 5700. I suppose each to their own!

Wow SDB, that was a great post!!

Enjoying this thread, but whats a "TomTom"??

Thanks, at least I know what it looks like. I don't like it and like Graeme said it won't have much resale value. I'm sure a new B&O system would definitely blow the Marantz away!!

He was only willing to divulge that it had the 7001 amp?

My brother just bought a new Marantz sound system (after giving back my Beocenter 7002 that he broke!!). Anyway i didn't have a problem with that till he turned his nose up at my Beosystem 3500 and said his system is spectacular. I haven't had the joy of seeing or listening to it but I looked online and they don't look nice at all. SO i