Dear Graham & Peter, Many thanks for your inputs. I did suspect that I would probably in for a trip to the service department - your posts (unfortunately) confirmed this! Kind regards, Klaus

Hi people! I have a BeoSound 9000 bought new in Sweden in June 1999. When I listen to CDs on it, the sound sometimes gets cut for a second (as if I had pressed the mute button ), and then the music resumes exactly where it had stopped. It happens at random moments on basically all my CDs, so it is not due to some specific old and/or scratched CD. I