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Where do you live?

Martin wrote:

Hi,

 

I use them as pc-Speakers at my desk.

 

Hmmmm - I’d like to see a picture of that ;-)

MM

The Netherlands, against the German border. 3 hours and 15 minutes away from Hamburg! ;-)

(Double. Posting here goes a bit weird.)

O.k. you have approx. 50 Euros in material and 3-4 afternoons of work. Economically speaking this makes no sense. But if you have an art director wife, things look different.

You are welcome, of course.

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I just ordered one from Marktplaats.I hate making bids that are MUCH lower than the price that's mentioned, but he agreed right away.
The seller confirmed that it really should improve the sound quality.

We will see after the weekend, I guess! :-)

if needed, the Beolab 2 could be a nice addition to it? Better than the 11?

I still can't get used to the sound. At very low volume it sounds okay and with watching tv I do like the stereo-effect which clearly sounds different than with my old speakers, but I really miss the warmth.
Now I'm in doubt between either selling these and get me some penguins (Beolab 9), or add a subwoofer.

The Beolab 2 supposedly is amazing with movies but isn't very musical because it's sluggish. The Beolab 11 apparently is much more musical, but I've read it takes away all the bass from other speakers (although some people say that's only the case in combination with Beolab 6000 speakers which I find hard to believe).

I do like the looks of these speakers and those penguins are far less attractive. The height of these speakers also is perfect for the situation here in the living room because my computer desk is behind the couch and the tweeters of these 8002's project the treble over teh couch and over my screens towards my ears.

The little penguins supposedly have far superior warmth and fullness than a 8002 + subwoofer combination, but with those the tweeters will be blocked by the furniture here when I'm behind my desk. Also in general I really don't like subwoofers because you often do hear exactly where one is standing which feels very unnatural to me. I also wouldn't know where to put it here.

Anything more professional than the Beolab 9 just is above my budget.

Tips please?

One can build risers for the BeoLab 9s.  This was the answer from my old dealer (now departed 🙁) when I pointed out the same problem.  I decided to buy BL1s instead so I never got too far into this discussion about what types of materials they use, but they did claim to have done it at least once.

Also, I personally think the BL2 gets a bad rap on this site.  The BL2 can be musical (at least to my ears) if one is careful in it's placement, and don't favor music with a lot of low frequencies that tend to resonate within the BL2.  Someone once pointed to a Massive Attack song that did this.  It was pretty much the only song I've heard where the BL2 sounded sluggish on my system.  Up until that time, I hadn't had any issues.  I'm not saying all low frequencies resonate, but rather certain low frequencies.  In my listening to primarily classic rock, new wave, punk, jazz and classical, I don't normally hear this, but I believe some of the electronic/trance music may spend enough time in those frequencies to muddle the BS2.