Hi The Stig Thank you I will make enquiries to obtain CPU, I am moving abroad shortly, but I will get back to you, to let you know if the Update works. Thank you too you both for your assistance and solving part of my my problem (the options) kind regards John

Hi Graham The Bm5500 works with Avant as you predicted watching tv select AV phono tv audio goes off and phono accessed through Avant speakers, however there is still no audio output from the Bm speakers, when selecting AV/ TV it does not switch on the amp the only way I am able to do this is via AV shift/Radio which accesses the Aux command on the

Hi Graham We are a little bit further on, in so far as both the units are now accepting the commands via AV and no loss of picture, however when i turn the volume up on the BM5500 speakers all I can hear is the pulse through the speakers as the volume increases ( the speakers I have are Bose acoustimass 5 mini cubes with sub and a pair of Bose 301s

Hi Graham thanks for the advice I had already tried this and the result is the TV picture goes off with the sound only from the Avant, ie as normal with no picture. I have to press TV to return the Avant back to picture and sound. If I play the Phono and then access the TV I can play Records and any other source from the BM5500. Am I missing something

I wonder if anybody could offer assistance please, I have a BM5500, which I have connected to an Avant via a ML converter, the problem I am having is the Bm 5500 and associated peripherals will talk to the Avant, but I cannot get the Avant to talk to the BM5500. I do not have the surround system on the Avant, so my speakers are passive. it might very