[quote user="Rich"]But I'm also keeping a list of Beoworlder Approved for future possible buys.[/quote] That would make an interesting thread. There is a very short list of THEE pieces to have from specific eras. As you seem to have been thoroughly bitten w/ the bug... I highly recommend adding this to your immediate shopping list!

Lovely!

Sorry, no luck. The manual I have is MCL, not MCL82. I'll keep digging to see if I can find ANYTHING on this topic.

[quote user="Friedmett"]Can anyone help? No I'm not going to upgrade for this.[/quote] No need to for the MCL82... the MCL82 manual here links to a BeoLink Active - Russian manual! Besides having the 8000 and a NOS MCL82, I am pretty confident I have the correct manual somewhere! If I can find it, I will be happy to take a look through

Remote chance you may have accidentally turned it off? Take a look here.

[quote user="elephant"]hmmm, I must have been thinking of someone else[/quote] Likely [beojeff] in your siggy! Shocking, but true ...especially for friends who know I am a huge Apple fanboy. My personal cell account is eligible for iPhones in mid September ...about (4) weeks. Back to LinkPlayer... still running in my primitive mode. I figured

2 pin DIN on both sides... male at the master, female at the speaker. (-) is the spade / (+) is the pin.

Welcome to BeoWorld! Nice progress so far! Good on you doing research and I assume using the search function! You haven't mentioned what your amp is... Are you certain it has an RIAA built in? The BG8000 does not ...before messing w/ the leads. Short of that, has the cartridge been tested and known to be good?

[quote user="PhilLondon"] Burantek, I'll be analysing your setup later today. [/quote] Thank you... I was going to EDIT the previous post, but I think I will leave it intact and EDIT as things develop... ending up w/ a final working configuration for others to reference -something that would be neat to add perhaps to your site. (i.e.)

[quote user="Cleviebaby"]My point about ATC is that, to make a high quality speaker that is viable as both an active and passive design is really challenging and Peter's comments about the 8000 and 6000 design is that it only works because the amp is designed to overcome an extraordinarily limiting shape - the drainpipe.[/quote] And precisely