Well, as you can see above, I do make a distinction for the audio. WHEN the movie companies do a good transfer, and there are lots of inferior BD transfers, then you get excellent sound - but that means they have to go back to the original mix, which they often don't bother with. So it's worth listening out for that. New releases don't have

Have been watching AppleTV for over a year now. The HD-ready films look brilliant on my flatscreen - you'd hear a difference between that and a Blu-ray version (if they bothered to do a good transfer, not always the case), but you wouldn't see a difference. I have tried, and there isn't one. But if I had a 65" plus flatscreen, I'd

I think it's worth pointing out that the person who was in charge of the BL5 development team at B&O, and who was the engineer behind the room correction in the BL5s, has been working at Lyngdorf for a number of years. Jan Abildgaard Pedersen was disenchanted with the lack of support for the potential in room correction at B&O, and took

Can only confirm what's been written here. Have used my CD6500 with my BL5s, with excellent results. When the speakers detect the digital signal they immediately switch to that - I went through the Beomaster 6500 for PL, and that unit controlled the other settings. My understanding from the Beogram CD 6500 manual is that the digital OUT on those

Girlfriend - girlfriend. Not wife. And this girlfriend is a jazz singer - she loves excellent audio.

I had an interesting experience a while ago. The opera Don Carlo was being performed at the opera house, with René Pape singing the role of King Philip. In the opera, he is alone in his castle, and sings Ella giammai m'amo - she never loved me, a very moving aria, with sotto voce instrumentals developing into orchestral spectacle. Here's

I've been playing around with it, pretending I'm new to B&O and just want to have a look. Wonder how many people they lose after their insistence on "registering" to do anyting short of using the lavatory - bet that will change soon, when they see the stickiness numbers. If you're just someone looking for quick info, you're

The BeoSound 9000 remains a classic - a strong product. If you have a large collection of CDs (or six that you listen to over and over), it's perfect. Excellent sound, too, particularly if you can use the digital feed. It's got magic movement, etc. As a measure of its longevity, the Nr. 1 white BS9000 went to a bidder who paid €14.000 for

Tell the story behind these spec's, instead of the colour range, and you would shut up any critic:

It's a mindset thing at B&O - trust me, I know. The focus is on the looks over the substance. That was the point of my reference to the silent grand in the first room, or the silent speakers. I'd love it to be more performance oriented, less attention to surface and more substance. But then we should maybe accept that B&O knows their