I have my BV10 wall mounted on a solid 20cm thick brick wall. The sound is better wall mounted IMHO.

Try wall mounting an Avant

This is silly. One is a dedicated floor stander designed for internal volume, the other isn't. A compromise yes but when matched with the appropriate speakers fine. I have a 7-40 with a 7.4 speaker shortly to be traded in for a 10-40. Try listening to music with the 7.4 speaker alone!

Hi Chris, the question was a direct one, what is the sound quality of a 10-40/46 compared to an Avant?  In my view, whether wall or floor mounted the Avant is far superior - Personally I would say that I prefer the tones and sound output of the Avant to the Beolab 7 range per se, my interest is in what the speaker atteched to the new Beovision 12 sound like too!

you can wall mount an Avant?

Of course not!

Hi,

actually I have a BV 10-40 (wall-mounted), a new BV 7-40 3D with Beolab 10. Before BV 7-40 3D I had an Avant for 13 years. My friend has a Samsung.

Let me evaluate the sound quality of these TV´s as follows (1 = poor; 10 = outstanding ):

- Samsung: 1

- BV 10-40: 4

- Avant: 6

- Beolab 10: 10

Regards

Räuber

Raeuber wrote:

- Beolab 10: 10

I'm not so sure about that. Again, I think it's just that placebo affect that people get when they buy a new speaker or spend some cash, want it to sound much better, so believe it does.

The BL10 is just another BL7.4. I couldn't just use my BV7-40 with a BL7.4/BL10 and be happy. Wasn't good enough.

As I said above, having owned a BV7-40 for many years (with different speaker combos), the BV10 isn't that bad. Definitely not 4/10 compared to 10/10 (where did you get from ?!). BL10 definitely doesn't give a 10/10 audio experience :)

I have never heard the beolab 10. and i thought how could the Avant speakers get any better!

Moxxey,

do you think, if somebody uses the BL10 with front speakers like BL9 or BL5 and rear speakers like BL4000 or BL3 and the speaker of the BL10 is only the center, it will also rate a 4.0?

I rated the Beolab 10 and the other inbuild speakers as center speaker. For audio you need of course additional speakers, I use Beolab 1 as front and Beolab 6000 as rear speakers at my BV 7-40 3D with Beolab 10.

For "full" audio experience take the Bluray of the Immersion Box of Pink Floyd´s Dark Side Of The Moon, put it into the Bluray Player of BV 7-40 and select the 5.1 Surround Mix of the album at 96 kHz/24bit. I never heard a better sound before! The Beolab 10 matches perfect to the other Beolabs, it´s really amazing.

/Räuber

Raeuber wrote:

I rated the Beolab 10 and the other inbuild speakers as center speaker. For audio you need of course additional speakers, I use Beolab 1 as front and Beolab 6000 as rear speakers at my BV 7-40 3D with Beolab 10.

Correct, but that's a different situation entirely (than rating the BL10 as 10/10). Few scenarios beat my BV7-40 + BL9s + BL7.4 setup. That was outstanding. 7.2 was much more bland in comparison and the BV10-46 more poor again. However, it's still decent audio.

Weirdly though, I've just had the BV10-46 mainboard replaced and software upgraded and....the BV10-46 sound quality has improved. Maybe it's that placebo effect again (you expect things to "improve" so believe it has), but it definitely louder and more bassy than it was previously and the settings are the same - well, factory default.

For example, watching the same programme at 50 before is now set to 42 max. Any higher and it's too loud. How odd!

EDIT: it's definitely improved. The spoken word has more clarity, too!