Dave,

I found your comment on the ALT system very interesting.  Does this apply to the Beolab 3s as well?  Should I toe in my BL3s to my direction.  Any other suggestion as to placement of BL3s (sorry all, I recognize that this thread is about BL5s but I thought that the above answer by Davie Moulton might interest owners of other speakers too).

Yes the bl5 is an amazing speaker, but the room you put them is in most cases not when it comes to reproducing audio. I am a bit confused that you did not what Dirac did for you. What kind of mic did you use? Did you do the measurements in sofa, chair or theatre mode? 

Yes the bl5 is an amazing speaker, but the room you put them is in most cases not when it comes to reproducing audio. I am a bit confused that you did not what Dirac did for you. What kind of mic did you use? Did you do the measurements in sofa, chair or theatre mode? 

My personal experience is that the Beolab 3 will benefit if toed in. Look at my other thread with the answer from Geoff Martin

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/placement-of-your-speakers

Regarding BeoLab 3s, toe-in is a good question.  

In theory, yes, toe them in.  In practice, it doesn't seem to matter a lot, particularly when you use them as I do, close to the listener.  In the studio, I have them on each side of the meter bridge of my console, a little more than 1 meter away from me, with NO toe-in (mainly for appearance reasons – remember, also, that I may have a client sitting next to me and whatever toe-in I have isn't going to work for the client).  On location, I set them up on whatever table is available and toe them in.  

If you have them away from you (say more than 2 meters in a typical room, I guess I'd toe them in (and that's what I do in my living room, with the home theatre install with an Avant).  

I hope this answer helps.  

Best regards,

Dave Moulton, Sausalito Audio LLC

Wilderwein wrote:

Yes the bl5 is an amazing speaker, but the room you put them is in most cases not when it comes to reproducing audio. I am a bit confused that you did not what Dirac did for you. What kind of mic did you use? Did you do the measurements in sofa, chair or theatre mode?

Ok, can you post pictures on the measurement graph? If you have the time I would recommend you to try and measure in a wider area. But it is also possible that you cant get it to work in your particular room.

Wilderwein wrote:

Ok, can you post pictures on the measurement graph? If you have the time I would recommend you to try and measure in a wider area. But it is also possible that you cant get it to work in your particular room.