Hi Cal , Thanks for your interest , yes mate  the lip sync is aparent in all mode settings, weather its 1/2/3/4/5 speakers. i also have sound differences in the dining room to the lounge. its all really frustrating.

perhaps this thread helps about the lip sync problem BUT be VERY carefully in servicemode not to damage any thing because this should void your warranty!

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/t/28817.aspx

Thats just the story on the surface mate, i could have been lumberd with a £17.5000.00 TV and not even known!  the only way i found out was by persevering another reluctant source who suggested that i take them to court over the fraudulant sale. I just wonder how many other times that could have happened ?

TWG wrote:

Hi,

I'm sorry to hear that you have such an unsupportive dealer. You should write that directly to B&O!

Do I understand you correct that you use an Equalizer on highend speakers like the Beolab 5?

In my opinion these are speakers that are intended to listen to as they sound - without any external correction.

Do you use "Loudness" etc, too? Perhaps that's the problem with the speakers!

With equalizer and loudness you can damage nearly every speaker when you crank up the volume too much!

They are not a horn construction and I can imagine that the equalizer and/or loudness etc. disturbs the speaker because they adjust themselfes to the room automaticaly with their integrated microphones.
Now the internal computer of the Beolab 5 thinks, "Ok, I'm done." - and after this you feed him with an equalized signal and it can't adjust itself anymore.

Try to set up every sound setting to "zero" (as you should always do for enjoying music with highend speakers!). No adjustment to high, low, loudness and external EQ like from the Mac. Adjust the TV the same.

Now you should let the speaker adjust themselves again. After adjustment: Test them, listen to them. How do they sound without adjusting the sound? Can you now "crank the volume up"?.

Perhaps you already damaged them, than you could hear some internal noises from the speakers that don't belong to music.

As english is a foreign language for me, I hope my point is understandable!?

Good point

If you use a mac  as a server with itunes, you must turn off the equalizer (which is fairly crappy anyways) and lower the volume a notch.
Though I don't have beolab 5's  but other B&O active speakers , I still had to do that.
The beolab 5's are specially designed to optimize your sound all by themselves and their should be no need for any equalizer as they can receive digital signals.

If you use Itunes or any other program to play video, lip sync can be a problem due to poor ripping or conversion of the files. I use plex that has a setup to allows control for the lip sync issue.
Shouldn't be having any problem with a satellite or cable box, though. Just make sure the box is connected straight to the tv and not looped through a vcr or any other equipment or any image/sound converter. 

Hi. Thank you for your comments, i have informed B&O and they have told me only to deal with the dealer, with regards to the settings on the MAC you are quite right they should be Flat , i may have worded the equaliser incorrectly , although the equaliser is on a Flat level i was asked to turn the lower levels of base into a minus to help the lab 5s from moving. theloudness button is on the TV , which is off and the base and treble levels have been reduced by the dealer. It all sounds wrong to me, I let the speakers run on a level of 40 for half an hour every other day to wear them in as advised prior to cranking them up, they have only been driven to 60 as any further they used to jump on my wooden flooring so i immediately turned them down, thats not normal. lastly the speakers are in good working order on not damaged as checked by the dealer.

andysingh wrote:

Thats just the story on the surface mate, i could have been lumberd with a £17.5000.00 TV and not even known!  the only way i found out was by persevering another reluctant source who suggested that i take them to court over the fraudulant sale. I just wonder how many other times that could have happened ?

what type of flooring do you have?

my lab 5s move a little on my wood floor when they are turned up real loud

it may help to calibrate them again to keep them from moving

good luck on the lip sync issue. . i've only experienced that in link rooms

never in the main room

The lip sync issue can be fixed in the service menu, BUT if I recall correctly it affects all sources. So if there is only a delay on one source (aside from telling you that the issue is in the source!) it would fix one problem and cause another. My guess is that the fault lies with the service provider, but I hope you see it fixed one way or another. 

what puts me off the bv9 apart from it's crazy price is the fact the hdr module only records the channel you are watching , which is quite simply utterly bonkers

the only way round is to fit something like  a sky box - and after my terrible experiences with those ( hd and sd models ) i'd be loath to do so

thought as much , it's a sky problem

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/20283/151167.aspx

and looks like bno are not the only ones affected

sorry , but sky's hardware is simply garbage of the lowest order( amstragic )

my box crashes EVERY day , while a sony hdr connected to my avant hasn't had one problem in over 3 years

nuff said