Hi, I think you ticked a lot of the boxes in your review.

I'm also happy with the 28's, though hoping as stated in this forum there will be a neosound stage at some point to connect to an LG OLED and use the 28's as surround speakers besides music listening.

I do have a tip to point out for any 28 owner. Take the stickers of the wooden lamellas because I ran into a sad discovery:

The green/blueish stickers with production date / serial number will peel off in a warmer room. Because of the opening and closing movement the stickers roll against the inner fabric and start rubbing of glue and coloring on the fabric. Those fabric covers cost 400€ ex vat per speaker. Not so nice and frankly a production error on B&O's side...

So simple fix, when installing a new set, pull off the stickers!

Thank you Allianze, 

i am about to make my purchasing decision, just a wk left for me to decide. 

I am getting the 77 inch harmony for sure, but was not sure to get either 4 28s or to get the pair of 50s with pair 18s at the back. the latter is more expensive for sure so was leaning towards the former. 

I was about to get the 28s option in fact have paid advance to my dealer, but then read your review and now am confused gain! 

I love listening to music but i also like watching movies. probably watch more than listen but i am in the media business so both are important. 

my living room is medium size but issue is that there is not much room on the right and left of the harmony for the 50s, they will barely fit due to cabinets. i will end up having 3-4 inch at either end. 

What do you suggest should i still go for the 4 29s or the 50s plus 18s at the back. 

i actually love the look of the 18s compared to the 28s. but am overall very confused. 

i wish someone would just say god damn it just get a instead of b : ) 

I have the 77" Harmony, 90s at the front and until recently 50s as surrounds and 18s at the rear.

I currently also have a pair of 28s on loan replacing the 50s as surrounds.

To my ear there is absolutely no comparing the 50s to the 28s the 50s are so far superior certainly in terms of listening to music.

The 28s are bass heavy and the bass infiltrates the mid ranges to quite some degree. This may suit your taste in music but my taste for female vocals shows bass in test tracks where I did not realise any significant bass was present. This does not suit how I listen or my musical taste.

Where the 28s score IMO is for movies where the forward presentation and commanding presence of the DP is outstanding. This is also the case when using the 28s as surrounds or rears because the major impact of the sound are the various explosions and effects.

In my current tests the 18s are perfect for rears as the 90s ( and 50s) can deliver all the bass you will ever need.

Presumably the 50s will be toed in so that may give a little more room but the 50s are the outstanding value of the B&O range and if you can make them fit you will not regret it.

Is that near enough to God damn it?

For sure there is something unsual with the 28s default setting regarding bass. It is the first time ever in my B&O journey which started a long time ago where a speaker is so bass heavy, boomy even I would say, could have Bose written on the front instead of B&O to be honest.

I am still owning plenty of these speakers like BL6002, BL8002, BL3 where adding a BL2 or BL19 is almost mandatory. The 28s are in another league, it reminds me the BL1, but in the opposite. Where the BL1 needed a BL2 to give the full potential (and what a performance with it !) and a few tweaking with the eqalizer settings, here I had to play with the Beosonic (cursor at max between Clear and Dynamic) and decreasing the bass at -6 on the equalizer in the app, so the minimum level of bass you can get. With that I have almost what I am used to have in term of B&O sound signature, especially coming from my regretted Beloab 5 that had no chance to fit the new flat's living room, unfortunately, and that the BL28 are replacing. BTW, nothing comparable in term of sound experience with the BL5, the BL5 are far far far far superior to the BL28 for those who are asking.

Wide/narrow modes on BL28 are marketing only to me, I have a Lyngdorf amp with room perfect feature in another room, with it you can really hear the difference between 2 modes, same goes with the room correction that takes 3 seconds to measure and adjust ... what, I am still trying to figure out but there is not much difference with or without)

That being said, they are really beautiful (Initially, I was not liking them much on photos) and have the B&O magic touch with the wood opening, the touch panel on the top of the speaker is really a good idea and is really useful, more than I was expecting, and with removing almost all bass in the parameters that the app is providing you can get a very good sound result, similar or superior to what I am used to with my previous or actual B&O speakers in the SAME RANGE (for those who are trying to compare them with BL5, BL50 or even 90, it is probably just for kidding... hopefully).

The 28s have a tremendous sound stage and sound really impressive if you like bass heavy audio but the bass is not only boomy it thumps!

On the 50s you can hear the full range of subtle differences in the various bass instruments but the 28s (to my ear) just thump.

What I'm missing in this discussion is some sort of objectivity.

What do you expect when you drive a Mercedes/Audi/BMW/Volvo of 30.000 EUR or one of 75.000 EUR? Would you get the same experience?

So why compare the BL28 to the BL50. 

Much of the discussion over the last few weeks have been by people - aware of the price difference - asking for a comparison prior to buying.

Objectivity in audio comparisons - that's an oxymoron.

MaxH wrote:

Objectivity in audio comparisons - that's an oxymoron

So why compare if you know in objectivity you can't?