Beolab 18 - New owner with questions

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GE
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geoffmartin
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Posted January 17, 2024 at 12:51 GMT
#1661816
If you're mixing the Beolab 18s with non-B&O loudspeakers (like KEF) with a non-B&O surround processor, then you also need to worry about latency. In the case of the 18s, this can probably be compensated using a small addition to the loudspeaker distance calibration in the processor's setup menus.

There's a blog posting about how to do this here:

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If you have questions about or problems with B&O equipment, these should be directed through your dealer and/or B&O's Customer Service department.

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Thanks
-geoff
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Millemis
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Posted January 17, 2024 at 17:50 GMT
Edited January 17, 2024 at 17:51 GMT
#1661822
In this case (the Rotel 1570) the Delay settings is located in the Main Menu….
…..and not - as one might think - as a sub menu in the Speakers Menu.


I hope you get your settings right and will enjoy the BL18’s.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

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DT79
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Posted January 17, 2024 at 18:55 GMT
#1661824
The ethernet connection on the Chord is for receiving data. The power link sockets on the Beolab 18s are for a proprietary B&O audio input - they just coincidentally use the same type of socket.
You could connect an audio only device to the toslink input on one of your beolab 18s (and then another optical cable from the toslink output of that speaker to the toslink input of the other) and operate that device with the Beolab 18s for stereo music completely independently from your AV processor*, however any device connected to the Beolab 18s must have its own volume control.
*if both your audio device connected by toslink and the av processor connected via analogue are playing simultaneously then there will be an order of preference, but I don't recall what that is.
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