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I'm currently watching TV, so I'll try it out properly tomorrow. Will be interesting to contrast playing a CD and playing a lossless file from that CD via the BeoSystem 3 and directly from my laptop. I'll let you know!

I posted a while back that I was considering acquiring a music server, which would make playback of files (mainly AIFF, some FLAC or ALAC or MP3) through my BeoLab 90s easier (and hopefully sound better). (At present, the files are sent to my BeoSystem 3 and then to the speakers.) In the meantime, I've been experimenting with connecting my MacBook directly to the speakers using a USB C to USB B cable. I was under the impression that if I then launched iTunes and played some music, this would

@Geoff Martin Thanks for your input. If I've interpreted your answer correctly, I should continue playing hi-res files via a USB stick in the Cambridge CXU, but connect the CXU to the BeoLab 90s via S/PDIF. (This would mean switching my main CD player, the Beogram CD 5500, from the S/PDIF connection to the optical.) I should then give the S/PDIF connection a higher priority in the Lab 90s' settings than the "automatic" option, so I get digital sound but am able to control the CXU

[quote user="Millemissen"] In theory you could do that with your Cambridge - it is just a matter of the size of the USB drive. But the most important part is, how do you manage these files, how do you navigate (in a comfortable and informative way). This is what DLNA (or the more proprietary) servers and the control points (e.g apps on a mobile device) is about. MM [/quote] At present, I select and play files using the CXU's remote and its user interface on my TV. If I connected the

Yes, my Lab 5s were very problematical. Both speakers needed their chassis to be replaced twice during the 12 years I owned them.