Of course, but bear in mind both service manuals don't state how it's measured (which is fair enough, maximum SPL is a mainly useless measurement once you get past 100 dB, which is plenty loud enough for any situation in a home or studio), but I distinctly remember reading in a B&O catalogue that the spec was measured at 10m. I think it was the catalogue

"Are they good then?" I hope you re-arranged his internal organs with a good 'demo'

I believe the 108 dB rating of the BeoLab 5s is at 10m instead of the standard 1m (a rather strange measurement). If measured at 1m, as with most loudspeakers, I predict you'd get at least 115 dB out of them.

Is item 170231211945 definitely your Beo5? If so, no wonder it didn't work...

Razlaw: Maybe they started with 4.24 instead of 4.20 4.23 in recognition of the 24fprs support? 4.24fprs? No, it'll be because they were only using versions 4.20-4.23 internally. 4.24 is the release version. All software companies do this.

I personally wouldn't. The Pentas have no form of speaker protection and I know from experience that professional speakers are designed to take sudden unpredictable noise and jumps in the sound level, whilst normal speakers can't. Even a pair of turntables can produce lots of unwanted low-frequencies which could potentially harm the Pentas. I have been

£4k off BeoLab 5s! As if they weren't enough of a steal already...

DTS-HD can supply higher quality sound than CD by a considerable amount (technically). With CD, you have 65,536 'lines' of resolution, which is 'refreshed' 44,100 times a second. With DTS-HD, you have 16,777,216 'lines' of resolution, which is refreshed up to 192,000 times a second. Although psycho-acoustically, the sound improvement isn't as big as

BeoLab 5s FAR more than match their price tag. Have a listen to them and you may well find the price tag justified! Either way, if you would prefer, BeoLab 3s are very ideal as rear speakers as you can get them wall mounted high up (which the rear speakers almost always should be). Either way, bear in mind that sound is half the picture and it therefore

The P5s will probably be more neutral - B&W tend to have a very 'studio-y' sound to them, whilst the older B&O speakers tend to be more appropriate as 'listening' speakers (although the M150s are very neutral). B&O's latest speakers seem to have changed a lot though - the BeoLab 5 being the most neutral speaker on the market in terms of frequency plots