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Sad news indeed. Rest in peace, George Michael.

Been a great fan of his music since my college years through early to mid 80s, culminating with Purple Rain. Loved some of his later music as well, but those early years were my favourite. A most prolific and talented musician/singer/songwriter. Rest in peace, Prince Rogers Nelson.

Truly shocking news. Rest in peace David Bowie, and thank you.

If I am correct about this particular model, there seems to be a good old SCART on the back panel. If so, you could get something like this to output audio via RCA: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Switchable-Scart-Phono-S-Video-Adaptor-Gold/dp/B0018DE4ZU/ref=pd_cp_23_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GG3HYWY32KQJN49NDZK

Looks like it will, according to this, and at EUR 799, it might be more upmarket than the '610. One can only hope.

I find it very difficult to read pretty much everything on here. Blue font and black (very "faint" looking) font on grey background is just wrong. Contrast and readability was much better on the old site. At least chosing bold fonts makes it an easier read.[/b]

Just heard this terrible and sad news. My condolences to the family from a fellow drummer. RIP Big Chris, you will be greatly missed on the forum.

FWIW, I have both 'types' of systems at home and enjoy listening to them all, in different rooms and on different occasions and can't care less about the fact that one is active and the others passive. They are all different and I like what I hear, and that's what matters to me.

What is the volume on the streaming phone/laptop set at? Worth playing with that I reckon. Try a different cable as well, if you have spare. From what I can gather on the Logitech web site, assuming that is your unit, the volume output on it is fixed and there's no detail about the output...

I stream Tune In internet radio and songs from my NAS, using UPnPlay app for the latter, from Galaxy Note II to Minx Go with great result.

Marantz's own RX 101 bluetooth adaptor? Connects to M-CR603's M-X port in the back, only uses one cable, takes the power from the unit, no fuss.

Even Squeezebox Touch has VU meters !

Paul, few years back I got NR 1601 that I was very happy with, so much so that I replaced it with the 1603 which offers network connectivity, preamp out and larger display fonts. It drives Wharfedale Jade 5 fronts (biamped) with the matching centre as a 3.0 HC system. Also tried the SPC 10 sub...

My guess is that P.P. was thinking about the Real Thing's song, and not Star Wars... This is one of my current youtube favs, more of a mindless italo-disco then funk, but no less fun. :bounce:

You should also consider other offers from RS like the one with QA 2020i which will have different tonal characteristic that you may prefer over MA BX2's (and it's 30 quid cheaper). They also have one with MX1 which is even cheaper and a few more expensive ones. If you can, arrange a demo. I...