[quote user="PrizeDrawBot"] Anyway - amazing.. and all for the price of a months Gold Membership - you just can't get this anywhere else!! Enjoy your new Bang & Olufsen **** [/quote] Of course you can - if you have a lot more money than £30! Congratulations everyone!

[quote user="PrizeDrawBot"] Mr S. Pitkanen (seep) from Saint Herblain, France [/quote] That name sounds all too Finnish, and given the current weather, I wouldn't mind being in St. Herblain, France myself

[quote user="PrizeDrawBot"] Mr G. Ingram (garethingram1) from Cawood, UK [/quote] I'm not going to recalculate the odds! They are in that old thread!

Whoa! Almost forgot, but I'm here to receive my CD set

Yes - I'm sure it would be good to have another pair of eyes, so to speak! I still have the set in storage at work though, and the weather seems like I'm not going to start my car until next week... I might start over there and bring it home later, though

[quote user="Dkatz"]In regards to B&O, there are companies that have even bigger turnovers and more employees that don't outsource. I think the problem here is not the size of the company but the fact that it is a public one, and therefore they also care about their shareholders, boardmembers, execs, etc... that need to get paid out

Congratulations! That could give me the motivation to start work on mine as well. It sounds pretty decent as is so I've never even looked inside, but it sometimes makes "pop" sounds while warming up, so I'm sure there are at least some bad solders somewhere. I'm far too cheap for a Frede job and I wouldn't enjoy it half as

You have two options: The simplest way: connect the speaker outputs of your amp to the SpeakerLink sockets. All you need is a cable with suitable connectors (a 2 pin DIN is enough at the Penta end). This will not however bypass the Penta amp: it is still being used to drive the speaker. The input level switch (|, ||, |||) in the Pentas needs to be set

According to the BL5000 user manual, it seems to be possible, but I've never tried it myself. I have the other remotes but have avoided the 5000, because the displays have a tendency to go out pixel row by row, and they can't be repaired; no spare parts available. One more thing I forgot to mention: the Innovus dimmers (if you mean the RAone

Congratulations You can't do everything with an MCP - most notably you will need a BL7000 for programming the light control timers - but otherwise it is quite enough. The main nag is that if somebody has programmed timers into the Beomaster, you will need to use the same remote to get rid of them. Option programming can't be done with an MCP