Beolab 8000 evolution

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richtoy
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Posted March 12, 2015 at 18:55 GMT
#2037322

Hi,

On this site one can read "News: From January 2003, BeoLab 8000 was obtainable with new driver units giving extra bass at low levels. While not delivering as much as a link (dedicated sub-woofer) the bass drivers with the newer BeoLab 8000 have a marked improvement over their predecessors. The upgrade involved new frequency equalization and improved ABL system. These improvements are mostly apparent at high volume levels. The changes are implemented form serial 16992475 onwards." 

On beocentral  one can read "This made the early Beolab 8000 a 3-way design with an unusual “hybrid passive-active” construction. Although the use of a heavily damped cone loudspeaker for the midrange rather than an oversize dome unit lacked refinement the results were still quite pleasant. Unfortunately the buying public, educated over the years to believe that “more bass = higher quality” were not completely convinced so later models, those after No. 10145230, dispensed with the expensive crossover components and had both woofers wired in parallel, making the new models only a 2-way design. At the same time the electronic crossover filter was redesigned to include “adaptive bass linearisation”, a system that gave a bass lift at low listening levels."

I think both pieces of text describe the same single change in the BL8000 evolution but their dates differ by 8 or 9 years.  Which is correct?   Has there only been one evolution to the BL8000?

Richard

 

Location: Netherlands

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Leosgonewild
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Posted March 12, 2015 at 19:33 GMT
#2037323

I believe it was the BL8000 and the BL8002... (?)

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tournedos
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Posted March 13, 2015 at 09:08 GMT
#2037324

BL8002 is a completely different product in a very similar outfit, so that is not what the texts are referring to.

As far as I understand, the quoted decriptions do not mean the same change. The first is as it says, the speaker was changed from three-way to two-way (among other things, getting rid of one apparently expensive iron-core coil in the bass network). The latter is improved ABL.

When comparing the product descriptions on this site and Beocentral, you need to note that the former is often from contemporary marketing material, while the latter are technical descriptions augmented with Jarmans' opinions. Depending on the product, neither of them are necessarily the objective truth 😁

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