There could be all sorts of reasons why one will sound better than another. It is likely that the suspensions will be in different condition. The Effective Tip Mass of the S will be a little higher but still very low so I wouldn't worry about the differential in record wear! Use the one you like the sound of more!

I got it down to 3Mb but was unhappy with the detail. The scanner is very basic! It was only £80 for an A3 scanner!

Not sure! I'll have a look around but can't promise!

The most important thing to do with speakers is to listen to them yourself. We all have opinions, as can be seen above. I think the Beolab 4000s are the most under rated speaker in the range and think they are superb. I have a pair of them and a pair of Beolab 3s, and although the Beolab 3s are superb at low to medium volumes - better than the 4000s

Actually it turned out to be 6Mb and I have put it on site. Is it good enough? Not quite got the hang of the scanner yet - I need to flatten the pages more! Done it in grey scale though some of the diagrams are in colour but that would clearly make the files even bigger!

Tim Jarman. Contact him through the Beocentral web site. He lives in Farnborough.

The voices keep telling me things! Actually I have collected a fair amount of silly facts over the years and have a number of useful manuals that I can look in! I am better at the slightly older equipment like MCL as I have a hybrid MCL system!

Only the select few are in Struer. I am kept locked in a small cave! Just finished scanning the BM6000-2702 service manual - only fair I am afraid but on site. Still working out the intricacies of my new scanner! Seriously I would have liked to go but as a GP, it is tricky to get away some times. Lee and Ed are there and I am sure will be far more capable

I tend to encode at 320kbps now but quite a bit was at 160kbps. I have 11184 tracks on at present. I have it on a 500Gb internal drive as well as on DVD and a portable HDD. 75.82 Gb, which as you know is more than an 80Gb iPod can handle! Have decided to collect music now rather than equipment! The challenge is to set the iPod to shuffle and then identify

Not sure Ouvertures had the PIN code feature. I believe some early 3000s didn't have it either. But not having owned one of these, I wouldn't take my word as gospel!