I would set them up behind and central to the sofa on wall brackets (otherwise they'll be firing directly into the back of your sofa, which is next to useless). The two current rear BeoLab 6000s should be either side of the sofa, pointing inwards. RussR's method would work, but I would never have to speakers playing the same channel in two different

Timing is down to the amplifier and loudspeakers, not the CD player. Agreed, utter nonsense... Back on to the original topic, saying "I have no need for a BeoSound 9000, I have 6 CD drives in my computer" would be the same as saying "I have no need for a BeoSound 5, I have iTunes". Even with CoverFlow, it's pretty hard to find listening to MP3s out

It's a later 28" curved Avant/VCR.

I'd wait and see what the BeoSound 5 is capable of.

I've been listening to Leftism a lot too lately - excellent album...

You mean upsampling? 16 bit to 24 bit, 44.1 kHz to 96 kHz etc...? BeoLab 5s already do it, as does the BeoSound 9000 and indeed even the CD7000 I believe. In fact, BeoLab 5s up-sample to 192 kHz internally. Frequency response of CD players has always been pretty flat as long as the output stage is well designed, again, something the CD7000 was known

wonderfulelectric: Peter, if the best sound quality you have heard is from the Beosound 9000 or you think Besound 9000 provides adequate sound in today's terms. Oh! you are missing so much. Cd playback has advanced so much in the past couple of years that if you were to listen to what good cd players have to offer nowadays, you might be floored

Because audiophile companies are for the most part, desperate to find some new non-existant technical error in most people's hifi systems to squeeze more money out of people who pretend to know what they're talking about. Digital is digital. Yes, there is such a thing as jitter, but it is not an issue . The only thing which can affect digital data transfer

Just another example of how B&O is ignoring what consumers want. Where is my HDMI 1.3? No TrueHD surround sound?! How can they expect to survive?

You've got to also think about what's happening with those 1s and 0s when it passes through the Windows sound system, and usually they're modified anyway (the Windows sound system is quite poor to be honest). External soundcards, such as the Edirol 8in/8out interface I've been using today allow you to bypass any 'volume controls' or EQs built into the