Beolab Penta vs Beovox Redline 140 / RL 7000

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My Beolab pentas have a switch. So you can decide if they're used right or left.

But I never watched at the diagram, if this switch really makes a difference?

 

@ Dimacri:

I thought the bassreflex solution is the just the cheap version. Usually the expensive speakers use radiators.

 

i have both. the pentas have a lot more power behind them but if the rls are being driven by a 6500/7000 then power is also excellent, too. both are one of only a few b&o speakers that decend to 40 hz.

i have the stands. along one of the short edges near the corner you'll see the DIN speakerlink connector. that side should be "down" so if you had speakerlink cable it would attach up into the unit. the bang olufsen name plate then reads vertically near the bottom IIRC. woofers on top. there should be an adjustment screw in the stand that lets you "dial in" the tilt from 90 deg vert to angled upwards. mine are at 90-ish.

are you using speakerlink or the original coiled speaker cable or something else?

Oh, my rl 7000 don't have a DIN plug.

They look like this one:

http://www.baskant.dk/beovox-rl-7000-rep/

My stands don't have an adjustment screw :(

Stereomensch wrote:
My Beolab pentas have a switch. So you can decide if they're used right or left.
But I never watched at the diagram, if this switch really makes a difference ?

You may have misunderstood that.

Stereomensch wrote:

My Beolab pentas have a switch. So you can decide if they're used right or left.

But I never watched at the diagram, if this switch really makes a difference?

The difference is in the orientation of the tweeters. That’s their physical position rather than what channel they use from the two channel powerlink cable. It’s slightly better to have a mirror image than identical.

 

That‘s the switch I was talking about.

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