Looks like a speed Radar or anything with Doppler in his name.

trackbeo wrote:

Anther manufacturer is catching up to B&O's basic technical design for its speakers: Q Acoustics, a moderately-priced brand, is now selling an active (i.e. amplified), wireless transmitter version of their speakers, with a boundary compensation switch, a Left/Right switch, and even a tripod-ish stand! Alas the speakers are hideous; but the stand is a nice piece...

https://www.qacoustics.co.uk/activerange

It's high time for BeoLab 18's to get a microphone jack and the active room compensation available in the 50s and 90s -- just to stay one step ahead! [Edit: Yes, Sonos has had all these things for a few years now, but their manufacturing budgets keep their speakers out of the premium-quality range.]

Right you are, no rear-pointing speaker.  So like a Beolab 5, then: adjust only frequency response, only to clean up bass room modes and fix-up the results of the "blunt instrument" that is the boundary compensation switch.  Since that means changing the main board, well, heck, just make a Beo*Sound* 18, with the same source/choosing as the rest of the line -- plus line-in & PowerLink of course.  

(BTW HomePod only has 6 microphones, the 7-count is tweeters.  Wonder if it could spy even better, shooting ultrasonics around the room to figure out where you are located, like the MIT people did reading WiFi radiation...  Siri says, "Get up, you lazy-bones -- taking off your Apple Watch won't hide your inactivity from me!"  It could keep the dogs away from itself, too.:-)

trackbeo wrote:

Right you are, no rear-pointing speaker. So like a Beolab 5, then: adjust only frequency response, only to clean up bass room modes and fix-up the results of the "blunt instrument" that is the boundary compensation switch. Since that means changing the main board, well, heck, just make a Beo*Sound* 18, with the same source/choosing as the rest of the line -- plus line-in & PowerLink of course.

(BTW HomePod only has 6 microphones, the 7-count is tweeters. Wonder if it could spy even better, shooting ultrasonics around the room to figure out where you are located, like the MIT people did reading WiFi radiation... Siri says, "Get up, you lazy-bones -- taking off your Apple Watch won't hide your inactivity from me!" It could keep the dogs away from itself, too.:-)