Home Theatre in 2022

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chakko (archived2)
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Posted February 7, 2022 at 07:02 GMT
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Hello fellow afflicted nuts,

My son wants to follow in my footsteps (I did something right)!

Scenario

He has just bought an apartment and he wants me to put together a multiroom B&O system for him with a 5.1/7.1 home theatre at the centre of it all. He's got a very healthy budget, but there are some caveats:

 

  1. He's in London so I can't do the leg work, short of emailing folks (B&O Selfridges do you ever check your email?)
  2. He said he only wants B&O - hurrah!
  3. For the main L & R loudspeakers we are going to go with the Beolab 28
  4. We don't have the measurements/drawings yet, but it's a challenging layout: triangular room (27sqm), glass/aluminium along one side, galley-stye kitchen along the other, it appears there's drywall ceiling, and there's no rear wall as it's an open living/dining area
  5. Vintage gear is not an option - he doesn't have the patience for it
  6. Whatever the solution, it has to look very good OR be invisible

 

The issues

No cinema for you!

Now, I've googled the hell out of some of the issues and I've trawled this forum, and what I've concluded is that it appears the B&O of 2022 only wants to do home theatre via one of their beautiful TVs which acts as the AV receiver AND the centre speaker. Son and I believe that a dumb, thin, near invisible display with the latest panel tech is the way to go - so a Harmony is not for us.

Q1.1: Do we go with a non-B&O receiver to handle the 5.1 (line level out to BL 28 and high power to the other channels)?

Q1.2: Would that non-B&O receiver be able to control the volume of the 28s???

No centre channel for you!

If there's room in the ceiling, I expect to specify the B&O Celestials for the rear and effects channels. I don't love the idea of the centre up in the ceiling with the mains down at ear level. And it seems there's no low-profile B&O solution (the TV will be sat quite low to the floor in line with the lounge suite).

Q2: Do I source a non-B&O loud speaker for the centre?

The 0.1 dilemma

I feel like the Beolab 19 is going to be overkill when paired with the 28s in a 27sqm living area.

Hook a brother up

Q3.1: Anyone have a good recommendaiton for a London-based B&O + home theatre specialist who can make something happen?

Q3.2: Or should we just get the Beolab 28s and ask a non-B&O specialist to build something around them?

 

This is all a nice set of problems to have, I admit, but I'm finding it very hard to stick to the all B&O dream here.

I know this is a lot, but many thanks to anyone who can help out.

Chuck

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kai (archived2)
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Posted February 7, 2022 at 22:01 GMT
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I hope you don't mind me asking, building a cinema room and customer wants to use his beolab 5's as front speakers and lab 9' as rear speakers, and combine with in ceiling speakers to give him full dolby atmos, he does have a beosysyem 4, but he wants full 4k projector, what would you recommend?

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pauliander (archived2)
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Posted February 12, 2022 at 12:50 GMT
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I agree with you Beojeff. Decent HD quality suffices for more than 90% of TV and Netflix content. Size of the screen is much more important if you want to drive a big B&O speaker set up. If you want the real experience. I am talking about at least 100 inch. TV content is not there yet. I can vouch for the Beosystem 4 and hopefully a successor is on the way.
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kai (archived2)
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Posted February 14, 2022 at 21:13 GMT
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Do you think this avr stage will be launched this year?

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akoitidis
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Posted February 15, 2022 at 06:58 GMT
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Hello Chuck,

I had the same issue with you back in 2017 when I wanted to built a home theater for my new house which would be the center of my multiroom system. I already had many b&o products (beolbs, beosounds, beovision) but I was missing a BEOway to add a projector to my home theater and move from 5.1 to 7.1. I waited till 2020 when I took the decision to get a second hand beosystem 4. My biggest concern was that I would sacrifice 4K but it turned out to be a "small" sacrifice. Picture and sound quality are second to none. I am using a gx lg oled as a screen and an epson projector for my movies. Integration is great especialy if you consider adding a BLI for example you can get the home control screen even when using your projector.

I get back to the 4K issue. I used an nvidia shield directly connected to my projector for about a month and used it mainly with 4K content. Then I connected it to the beosystem 4 and used it the same way only to find that YES there is a difference (totally acceptable at least by my eyes) but only when watching 4K content. The upscaling from the nvidia shield along with the upscaling of the projector are doing a great job on a screen of 135 inches. 

If the speculation of beojeff's dealer is right then a sound center with 7.1/atmos/4k/etc etc would be a great product and I would probably be the first to put an order BUT it has to be as future proof as possible and in a fair price...till then I can suggest the beosystem 4 as a great solution to you.

LAST BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST I need to stress that if you plan to use in any of the other rooms a beosound moment or even integrate the moment with the beosystem 4 you will get sound drops sooner or later.

 

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