Posters are asking for comparisons - perhaps we should tell them off instead of offering an opinion 🙂

Regarding the boomy bass that folks are hearing on their 28s...is it still problematic after you run room correction?

Henrik has two videos, and while it's YT quality audio, the difference is still night and day.  Is that what others are experiencing?

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BeoFrederic wrote:

Regarding the boomy bass that folks are hearing on their 28s...is it still problematic after you run room correction?

Henrik has two videos, and while it's YT quality audio, the difference is still night and day. Is that what others are experiencing?

BL 28 w/out calibration

BL 28 with calibration

it is probably depending a lot of the room itself, in mine not much difference before and after calibration as I said above

Carolpa wrote:

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.

Is anyone able to answer how this would work?

If I hook these 28s up to a Marantz receiver using the pre-outs how does the motorized grills work exactly? Do they close on power down? Do they automatically go to the wide or narrow setting from the last power state? Can I only control this from the B&O app?

I assume they just stay the way the are all the time unless I tell the app to change them which is a disappointment.

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

If I hook these 28s up to a Marantz receiver using the pre-outs how does the motorized grills work exactly? Do they close on power down? Do they automatically go to the wide or narrow setting from the last power state? Can I only control this from the B&O app?

I assume they just stay the way the are all the time unless I tell the app to change them which is a disappointment.

I think that they are mostly opening for wide. And definately closing when receiver turns off at least for me with trigger adapters. Anyway you can still control wide/narrow from app or widget. App will try to say that use beovision for control but just disregard that and press wide or narrow. At first I tought that they will remember last setting used in any input powerlink/airplay2. But maybe now they are remembering by separate inputs... need to confirm that but they have been narrow few times when using airplay2 and wide for tv. Hopefully we will have some option for app in future.

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

Is anyone able to answer how this would work?

If I hook these 28s up to a Marantz receiver using the pre-outs how does the motorized grills work exactly? Do they close on power down? Do they automatically go to the wide or narrow setting from the last power state? Can I only control this from the B&O app?

I assume they just stay the way the are all the time unless I tell the app to change them which is a disappointment.

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A littlebit investigation. It seems that bl28's will remember last listening mode. Last evening last setting was manually to narrow@airplay and today with tv they opened wide. I have made my own listening mode from "optimal" with only change narrow to wide. With this tv always starts with wide. If I change to optimal then everything is narrow. But if using my own listening mode and airplay and just change wide to narrow it will remember that for some time for airplay. with longer time between I think airplay will revert to wide also. Tv will start wide anyway.

For now this is really good compromise 9/10 I use these with tv and prefer that no need to change narrow to wide mode. For music directly to bl28 no big trouble to change wide to narrow with widget.

Sandyb wrote:

Can your receiver manage latency?

I have not yet seen any modern receiver that cannot manage delay/latency.

However there can be problems to have this 100% correct and not even Geoff's fine tables would not solve these.

Example Denon/Marantz receiver's with Audyssey room correction maximum distance to speaker is 18 meters. 18 meters is more than enough needed for bl28's approx 11 meter/31ms or bl50's 9 meter/25ms. BUT Audyssey has a limitation that distance between closest speaker (usually side surround) and any speaker cannot be more than 6 meter. So if your surround is 2 meter away then your front speaker cannot be more than 8 meter away. Anthem receivers have 9 meter limitation and with littlebit calculations you will have it at least 3 meter closer than with Denon/Marantz. Dirac I am not familiar yet.