Millemissen wrote:

Thanks - did not know/realize that ;-(

Downside of selective reading, "grumpy cat", it was mentioned twice in this thread [;)

Hi everyone,

the BL28 is not for me but I was intrigued by all the comments so I have downloaded the AR app and now a) I actually quite like them and b) would like to see them at some point. I also find the curtain / lamella movement pretty neat. No real functionality but it still stands out and something I can enjoy and appreciate; would I be in the market for such speakers.

I wish everyone a very good time at their pre-viewings. Is anyone picking up a limited edition model?

matador43 wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

Thanks - did not know/realize that ;-(

Downside of selective reading, "grumpy cat", it was mentioned twice in this thread [;)

Please bare with me....I am not that fast today/was yesterday ;-(

That sure looks good on the wall.

So - can I use just one (if that is what I want)? - allthough they seem to only come in pairs!

And if I have two (set up as R/L) for the internal sources, is there a Master and a Slave?

Must be (some way), in order to know which one to play to!

And I I had 4 (or more), can I play to all of them (which indicates that there would be some kind of new Beolink function going on).

And what if I have a pair (or more pairs) set up with a BV as a multi channel setup, can I then still adress one or more as a sound system using the built-in sources?

Lot of questions!!!

MM

Emil Jensen wrote:

When is it realeased?

The 3D render is so bad in the app, that you dont really get a feeling on how it looks.

A very bad first impression.

 

A release will happen the 29 April

Can be seen at your dealer friday/saturday

I am going to see them tomorrow, my dealer said that they are much better in person, lets see...

Using just one of them would be a good solution for small places where some B&O needs to feed some music. :)

Similar to a Yamaha LSX-700

https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/design/synapses/id_064/

The renderings look somehow strange... but as already mentioned here: B&O products often look much better in real live than on pictures.

I hope the volume dial mechanism has a higher quality than the Essence remotes. Leaked Oil would look awful on the Beolab wood. :)

TWG wrote:

Using just one of them would be a good solution for small places where some B&O needs to feed some music. :)

Yes, it would be a super Beosound Balance. But what we dont know is how music is handled when only one speaker is used. Does it play one channel only or is there an option to combine both stereo channels ans render them in wide like a balance should do?

Another thing, and echoing the post saying B&O early specs are sometimes wrong:

In one of the picture above you can see the drivers: two of them looks like woofer or middle range maybe, but the other definitely looks like a tweeter.
But if I've understood well, that's tweeter that benefit from ALT, and there is clearly no acoustic lense in the tweeter.

Also, but I'm maybe fantasizing, when you read all the precise calculations needed to compute an acoustic lense, I can't see the point of putting it behind clothes, meaning hide it. 

Also, having an acoustic lense in the middle of the column would reduce the volume of the column, right?.

And finally, when you turn on the speaker in the AR app, beside the useless curtain opening, I  dont see any acoustic lense showing up.

So?

When they officially launch, maybe Geoff Martin can explain in lovingly detail how it works.

Maybe they use DSP processing but that's just guessing... we'll have to wait.

So when these are playing music, the lovely wood (more or less) disappears?

I.e. the 18's look nice, and at their best, when they are off or playing music.

But the 28's look their best when they are not playing music, and look less good when you are actually using them?!?!

This seems an odd product of the design to me.

Maybe the wood lamella move to widen the sound scene?