Beolab50 has big audio delay vs Beosound 8000 -Pls Help-

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M ight be mentioned elsewhere below, but from the BL90 Manual.....

13.3.2 Surround Processors

When a BeoLab 90 is used with an

older Bang & Olufsen surround

processor (such as the BeoSystem 3 or

earlier devices) or a third-party

surround processor, the loudspeaker’s

Latency Mode should be set to “Low” in

order to reduce the delay time of the

BeoLab 90 to a minimum. If the

Latency Mode is set to “High” and if it

is impossible to adjust the expected

loudspeaker latency in the surround

processor, then the BeoLab 90’s

latency will be high enough that they

appear to produce an audible echo

relative to other loudspeakers in the

system.

 

It may be possible to “trick” some

surround processors into compensating

for BeoLab 90’s latency in High

Latency Mode by adding 34.3 m (112.5

feet) to their actual distance from the

listening position. This value

corresponds to a 100 ms latency.

When used in Low Latency Mode, 8.6

m (28.1 feet) should be added to the

actual distance from the listening

position. This value corresponds to an

25 ms latency.

 

 

 

Thanks Mr 10percent, great idee.

So I immediately went into the Marantz SR8012 setup menu but unfortunately I can only set speaker distances to a maximum of 18 meters, so hardly any noticable difference.

Damn it seemed such a promissing idea

Hi Peter,

You can set this in the b&o app and you can find it under “beam control” like i said. At the bottom you can set a distance, so actual distance + what ever distance you need to the x ms delay.

Michael

Sure, I got that. Thanks

It can "only" be set to 10 meters and I found that actually putting it to 0 works best for me.

I really do not know how it solved my issue but when I disconnected the center speaker from the system I get the desired sound, including nicely timed Atmos and Surround speakers.

Since my Beolab 50's are only 2,5 meters apart, next to the TV  (not too big a living room) I decided to take that loss and go without a center speaker.Maybe one day I will get a bright moment and can make sense of it. Right now after weeks of struggling I will go and watch some nice movies :-)

 

Thanks for al the help, I really appreciate it
Happy holidays to you all
Peter 

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