Congratulations, Leon! With your wife as well as her taste in speakers And thanks to everyone else for the input Naturally, I'm still lobbying for the BL5000's to be a part of our interior but at the moment I'm looking at the alternatives if the lobbying doesn't go through. Right now my hit list is this: 1. BL5000's 2. BL4500's

Hehe, dumping is definitely not an alternative! Afraid keeping the 5000's is not, either Ladies might love 8000's, the thing is I don't But thanks, guys! Other suggestions are more than than welcome

Due to a near move-in with my girlfriend and as a result of a discussion about our interior I will have to downgrade my choice of speakers. (The expression SWMBO was not invented for nothing ) Currently I have a pair of BL5000's and was thinking about swopping the speaker parts to the smaller 4500's. A colleague of mine has BL4500's and

Minor edit to my original post: Should have said NOT logged in...minor, hmm... Btw, I completely agree that it's a good idea.

I noticed that while logged in the sales/wanted forum was shown. IIRC this wasn't the case before - am I wrong? Does this mean it is not exclusive to gold and silver members anymore?

beoaus: I have some slight damage to the front rosewood corners on a BG8002. Its just the rosewood veneer that has cracked, damaged and has peeled off. How would I attempt to fix this? Thanks, Beoaus Some time ago I refurbished a BM8000 - the former owner thougt the black trim looked really cool so he had peeled of the veneer I got hold of some mahogany

Beobuddy: One abbreviation I missed is RTFM. It's mostly used on other forums where people are less polite. RTFM : Read The Fucxxxx Manual. Brilliant RTFM - IBOS Read the f'ing manual - it's bloody on site...

Ignace: It will be launched later this summer. At £400 I could have my Nano gold plated! Hmmm, what to do...?

Very nice pictures, both of yous A friend of mine just started a job in a shop for professional photography gear so I might have the chance to take a close-up photo of my MMC1 soon.

That's what I thought. On standby the stand goes back to a position slightly off center. I don't think I will be doing anything about it, though, as it is too little to correct it by mounting it differently. Thanks again, Ben