In less than a week two post coming from new owner of beolab 5 and new member on beoworld, one visibly untested during purchase and the other one used the most unappropiate way. 

It's christmas not the first April !

Amazing

Hi Sheffield - Thanks for your help on this and glad it's not just me that likes the look of the BL 2 and if I could keep it in my system it's a personal choice thing.

I've since been playing around with the set-up with and without; various types of music and movies and I will be leaving things as B&O intended as the sound from the 5's & 9's is pretty damn awesome without the BL2. It is a shame as I do love the way it looks plus I did spend a lot of time and effort this time last year chasing out the entire lounge in order to bury all cables and have a very neat and and cable free set-up. So the decision is now whether to keep it there for aesthetics or sell it and my other BL2 and upgrade my other set-up to a BL19 😁

@olvislab - Your comments were most helpful . . .thank you

Apologies that should have opened "Hi -Mike" . . . .