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Beolab 8
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Beolab 8 does more than adapt to your room. It adapts to you. Using ultra- wideband technology, it directs the acoustic sweetspot to wherever you are. As long as your phone is on you, the sound is too. No need to readjust your speaker, or your room. *Fluid Sweet Spot only works when using Beolab 8 in a stereo setup with Apple iPhone (Apple iPhone 11 or newer).This sounds very impressive.
Location: Toronto, Canada
I like the look of these very much. Not too interested in the top controls if you had a pair or full surround but that's how Mozart goes I guess. For a pair, the cloth version is around ok but those frets, super pricey. Although, they kind of make the price I paid for the Theatre last Nov a bargain as a pair with frets is not far off.
Then again, maybe not, since they don’t have an analog line-in for my turntable.To be clear, the USB-C input is analogue (if it's anything like Theatre, new Beosound 2 and A9). It just needs a 3.5mm aux-in to USB-C adapter, but it's a dumb" "passthrough" adapter, just a matter of wiring the wires to the new connector form factor (USB-C). It's not like Beosound A1 or Explore, which support/require a source outputting USB-C digital audio. Edit: as noted below by others, A5 actually is like A1/Explore and unlike the rest of other recent Mozart products, i.e. it's not analogue but rather uses USB-C digital audio.
Where is the woofer in this? Is it inside firing up?
Location: Toronto, Canada
Hi,
To clarify, Beosound A5 never had an analogue line input, it only accepts a digital connection to a USB master device (eg a computer), as well as using this socket for charging. This is the same as with Explore and A1.
Beolab 8 is reported as having an analogue line input via the USB-C socket, as with Theatre and the latest Mozart equipped A9 and Beosound 2.
Beolab 8 also has an RJ45 Powerlink input for low latency connection to any B&O TV or AV receiver (via the correct cables of course!)
Kind regards Steve.
To clarify, Beosound A5 never had an analogue line input, it only accepts a digital connection to a USB master device (eg a computer), as well as using this socket for charging. This is the same as with Explore and A1.
Beolab 8 is reported as having an analogue line input via the USB-C socket, as with Theatre and the latest Mozart equipped A9 and Beosound 2.
Beolab 8 also has an RJ45 Powerlink input for low latency connection to any B&O TV or AV receiver (via the correct cables of course!)
Kind regards Steve.
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I love them, but why on earth would you provide an analogue line-in using a USB socket?
What next? Mains in via an 8 pin DIN socket?!
What next? Mains in via an 8 pin DIN socket?!
”AdamS wrote:
I love them, but why on earth would you provide an analogue line-in using a USB socket? What next? Mains in via an 8 pin DIN socket?!”
i agree but that’s how it is in the Theatre. So I had to buy the cheap looking adapter which I quickly dumped and now have line in from a pre-amp to an M3 then multiroom to the Theatre and BL3s.
I love them, but why on earth would you provide an analogue line-in using a USB socket? What next? Mains in via an 8 pin DIN socket?!”
i agree but that’s how it is in the Theatre. So I had to buy the cheap looking adapter which I quickly dumped and now have line in from a pre-amp to an M3 then multiroom to the Theatre and BL3s.
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