I personally like look of CDX but it have low WAF (wife acceptance factor).Wife think it looks like our old Gorenje Koerting turntable-tape-radio-amplifier music center but she also think that 5500 looks like our old Kenwood (first slim amplifier with commands hidden behind aluminum doors)and that's good,so I think that 5500 will pass smoothly🤒.I also like attyca and those black shelf with aluminum drawers lookalike doors (dunno code-name).I like the idea that I read here that with MCP5500 you can control windows based winamp or something like that.Also if you noticed how easy is to integrate beomaster with squeezebox  and  how  Master Control Panel 5500 shows similarity with diNovo edge...

Martin Gajta

Jacob Jensen Rules

stick with the 5500 CD Player Martin, even better if you can pair it with the 5500 amp, and a Beolink 1000 remote control

being in Serbia it might be possible to get someone to modify your 5500 in the same way that link has done, you will then be getting a fine system for the money :-)

Try the MS150 speakers with the 5500 amp first, if you like the sound then buy them for 150 euros, if not there are plenty of other speakers that sound very good with the 55 watt Beomaster 5500 amplifier, I myself had some speakers sounding very nice with the 5500, and at the moment I am using some

superdario wrote:

Peter wrote:

The CDX does indeed have a very pleasant sound - it is often described as sounding analogue. I agree - slightly warm and fuzzy in some ways but very easy to listen to. I use mine with my Beolab 5000 system and it performs very well! 

i tought i was finished with my collection... i need a cdx for my beolab 5000... ;-) what about the cdx2? which dac is build in?

The CDX2 has the TDA1541 DAC and is much the same as the CD4500, The 5500 is better but much less useful with the Beolab 5000 system. The CDX2 is however less reliable than the CDX and I would go for the latter in preference. 

Oh well I forgot to thank you and to say that I bought Beomaster 5500 and Turntable 5000 (I just love the way it looks together).Next thing is CD5500.

I'm happy with sound and look,so quest for CD5500 continuing and new stylus for

turntable...I will probably buy soundsmith's smmc4.