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3 March 2024 at 01:26 #53199
Hi there,
I have a beosound theatre and am totally blown away by the movie performance of it. Listening to audio/stereo is good as well, but I’m missing the wide stereo experience of 2 separate speakers.
Since I don’t have many opportunities to place speakers and don’t want to see that much of speakers around, I was thinking of adding one single beolab 8 speaker wirelessly to the theatre, using that as left stereo speaker, using the theatre as right stereo speaker. Only for music.
I could create a sound profile where – when listening to mainly airplay – the theatre for instance only uses its front right speakers. Since the sound signature of both speakers is similar, I thought of that as a potential option to not have 2 additional speakers, but just one. The Theatre only uses 1 tweeter, 1 midrange and 1 woofer, same goes then for the beolab 8.
I know it’s a creative option but am wondering what it results in when I change the volume while listing in stereo; would one speaker sound louder (different spl/db), can I simply change the balance when I’m sitting nearer the beolab 8? Any thoughts are very appreciated.
3 March 2024 at 14:48 #53200Hi @Lavie,
thanks for the nice comments about the Theatre.
I’m afraid that your plan for an “asymmetrical” setup won’t work for “real” stereo listening, since the Beolab 8 and one of the outputs of the Theatre are not a matched pair of loudspeakers. Although the two are designed to work together in a surround system (e.g. Theatre in the front and Beolab 8s as surrounds), they are certainly not matched enough to produce a reliable phantom centre or good imaging.
3 March 2024 at 15:24 #53201How about a “pair” of Theatres?
I know that this isn’t practical, but I’m curious if the software could handle this. (Hopefully this question isn’t too off-topic)
Glitch
3 March 2024 at 15:45 #53202How about a “pair” of Theatres?
I know that this isn’t practical, but I’m curious if the software could handle this. (Hopefully this question isn’t too off-topic)
Glitch
This would be kind of like wanting to be the driver of two cars at the same time ?
MM
3 March 2024 at 16:01 #53203Hi Geoff, thanks a ton for your answer. I hoped to receive an answer from you as well. And so it happened. Super quickly. Truly appreciated, and absolute brand ambassador worthy.
I will save myself the money of buying a single beolab 8, to ultimately get a sub-optimal sound. Perhaps I need to verify again what the possibilities are to place 2 beolabs 8 somewhere. I adore their sound, design and combo of aluminium with the oak, with the beolab’s 28 circular display on top. They sound amazing. Terrific job done. Enjoy your day. And I hope you will find that Ferrari one day!
3 March 2024 at 16:01 #53204Actually, my question was more like towing one car behind another ;-).
Something like this but with Theatres 😉
The towing situation is possible for some car combinations, but not for others.
Glitch
4 March 2024 at 07:09 #53205Hi,
I’ve been thinking about analogies for a system with a Beolab 8 on the left and a Theatre on the Right. The best ones I can come up with is wearing a pair of sunglasses where only one of the two lenses is tinted. Or driving a car with 15″ wheels on the left side and 16″ wheels on the right, maybe…
and no – you currently can’t have two Theatres playing in sync in a multichannel (i.e. one-room) system.
Cheers
-geoff7 March 2024 at 20:28 #53206and no – you currently can’t have two Theatres playing in sync in a multichannel (i.e. one-room) system.
That’s disappointing. I was looking forward to the “Beosound Theatre Innovative Configurations” thread (i.e. the Theatre version of the “BeoLink Converter 1611 Innovative Configurations” thread) 😉
Glitch
7 March 2024 at 21:29 #53207You could use airplay and technically they will be fully in sync 🙂
7 March 2024 at 22:27 #53208You could use airplay and technically they will be fully in sync ?
That would be the most expensive Airplay device ever ?
MM
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