At a forum for hifi-nuts that I frequent, one user recently lamented having ripped nearly 1500 CDs to WAV, before finding out about the limitations as far as TAGs was concerned. A big AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! post resulted.

Ah, I have two of those Jelly Beans, 1st and 2nd generation. Nice machines - and they still work! Absolutely agree that all that is needed is that Mac owners be able to pipe their music to and through B&O equipment without any obstructions, and with support from the company. Just consider the number of years where one was dependent upon 3rd party

Well spotted, Flappo! Wrote about that here. http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/10733/80057.aspx#80057 Note the small radio with the wheel dial - puts a cinch in B&O's claim that they were first with that. As Picasso said: I do not plagiarize, I improve. (And for all my memory knows, I may have improved on Picasso there.) Quite well aware of

Not that expensive any longer, actually. The Cambridge DAC Magic has been getting rave reviews, and got so popular that Cambridge actually increased the price. But it's still affordable at about USD300. Handles "all" input and output formats, and can handle several different devices. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/cambridge-audio-dacmagic

The BL3s are great speakers, and even B&O's tonmeister prefers them to BL5s for their purity, as long as they are not overloaded ... so I don't think we can blame the speakers. We don't know anything about the source material, so I can't say whether they had the best possible signal. Personal theory: It's bias. Audiophiles just

I've always claimed that Apple have recently taken a lot of design cues from B&O. Just look at the design-lineage from Beosystem 6500/7000 onwards, and compare that to the present iMac and MacBook ranges, as well as the present iPod and iPhone. There are a lot of similarities. I can place my iPod next to my MacBook Pro, and you'd see they

B&O could have taken a much more proactive stance, and sought to lead, even when outcomes hadn't been resolved. The fact that the company burned itself badly with VHS/Betacam, going for the latter back in ancient times, has led to an overly cautious culture, where "one wishes to wait until one sees which format/source/platform is the predominant

I'm not familiar with the BV7 settings, but maybe worth having a look at those to see whether the LFE signal is channeled properly. Is there an option for picking the type of speakers?

Something like this?

Here's a link: http://www.whathifi.com/Review/BandO-BeoSound-5/ http://www.whathifi.com/Review/BandO-BeoLab5/ http://www.whathifi.com/Review/BandO-BeoLab-9/ I think it touches nicely upon the great interface, and only wish I didn't have to reprocess my two thousand CDs now stored in lossless. Kind of proves my point - B&O should build great