recordere wrote:

I attended the BeoLab 90 press session at Bang & Olufsen yesterday.

Here's some of my thoughts (in Danish) and several behind-the-scenes videos and photos.

I just read on Uncrate that they still do in fact use 14 ice power amps, not sure where the info came from that they were made by someone else. To correct one of my previous statements. 

Geoff Martin wrote:

Playdrv4me wrote:

XLR is amazing to see, probably not fully balanced, but if it is, even better

It is. (to be explicit: it is both differential and impedance balanced)

Cheers

- geoff

Fantastic. Well done. 

Millemissen wrote:

I would not think of connecting a pre-amp like the Lexicon to the BL90.

Why should I need the processing etc of the Lexicon, when I have the BL90?

however, there are lots of media players nowadays, that have balanced analog output (XLR).

Also a good PC-soundcard may have XLR's....or how about the OPPO 105!

MM

While the Oppo 105 is impressive, it cannot provide multichannel XLR signals for surround sound directly. Also, its nice to have a hub for multiple sources.

No doubt about it - the BeoLab 90 will have incredible processing power and ability, however it can only process what you give it.. It is only going to process the channel being fed into it. 

The Lexicon MC-12B has fully differential XLR outputs for 10 channels (possibly 12 with specific configuration), each of which has a 32 bit Analog Devices DAC.

Geoff Martin wrote:

Evan wrote:

The XLR enables integration with some serious preamplifiers now

The idea behind BeoLab 90's many inputs was that you do not need a preamplifier, since it's built into the loudspeaker itself (depending, of course, on the number of sources you have and their outputs)

Cheers

- geoff

That is excellent news Geoff! 

Unfortunately, I am the type of user with many sources and usually consider a hub as part of my system, however I do only listen in two channel..

I guess the good news here is that the BL 90 is extremely versatile - definitely a 'luxury' problem 😕

The MC-12B has always seemed like an 'end game' piece for me, even though I would only use a small portion of its functionality!

Great job by the way, this speaker is incredible! The DSP work you do is absolutely stunning - please keep up the good work 🤒 

Evan wrote:

[While the Oppo 105 is impressive, it cannot provide multichannel XLR signals for surround sound directly. Also, its nice to have a hub for multiple sources.

I took the OPPO (105) as an example for a device, that can deliever 2 channel (stereo) through XLR - not considering it's capacity for multichannel audio at all.

Should be fine for someone, who preferably listens to stereo content ;-)

I doubt, that the BL90'ies were ever used for a multichannel setup...yet.

And if (and when) I guess B&O will use their own multichannel pre-pro, the BSys4 working in the Avant.

Who knows - at that time that might (?) have digital PowerLink outputs (DPL).

MM

Geoff Martin wrote:

The idea behind BeoLab 90's many inputs was that you do not need a preamplifier, since it's built into the loudspeaker itself

Ah, but does it have a Moving Coil phono stage?! ;-)

Maybe this was posted already?

http://www.tonmeister.ca/wordpress/2015/10/08/beolab-90-the-top-three-features-live/

Dave Farr wrote:

The tweeters and mids use ICE power which is the 14. The woofers use Heliox 1000-1. It was in the information I copied here earlier from the press pack.

 

 

Dave.

Ahh, got it. To be sure there is a LOT of info contained in that press pack, and a lot of information being disseminated around at a rapid rate right now. Thanks for the correction to my correction! ;)