Get a newer sound processor with room compensation built in.

thanks for all so far; switching off BV11 speakers is my default indeed for normal music / TV.

But as I do want the BL5's as fronts, I hence have no centres in case of movies/5.1 music even though it sounds better compared to making the BV11 as centres.

buying BV17 seems an option I hadn't thought of before, but would that really be much better ?

Are non-B&O centre speakers an option at all ?? (WISA?)

ReneB wrote:

Are non-B&O centre speakers an option at all ?? (WISA?)

This might be something to consider....if you really want to go non-B&O:

link

Of course this is about your ears, your room etc.

But imo, if you have calibrated your system properly, have made the bas managent settings etc, the two internal ‘speakers’ of the BV11 should do a proper job as center speaker.

After all it was (also) made for this job - the BSys4 in the tv is able to combine every external B&O speaker with its own internal.

If you need inspiration, this might give you some: 

THANKS ! Lots of details in there ... I know I have once tried some things with bass management to little avail, but when I get back home I will use the article to fine tune my system.

Nevertheless, my current main question is: would "replacing" the BV11 internal speakers with 2 BL17's as centre speakers be a real improvement or "not really" ? (my hunch is "yes, because two BL17's are about half the price of a whole BV11", but that could be very naive indeed :-) )

thanks again, Rene

I am pretty sure that most BV11 owners are pleased with the tv as the center speaker (in a 5.1/7.1 setup).

It is absolutely no problem to disable the internal speakers e. g. not to use them in a 5.1 setup (in your case a 5.2 setup, since your BL5’s are subwoofers as well).

I would not advice for using a 4.1 configuration with a 5.1 source, because you will be missing the didicated center speaker information....

.....unless you let the TrueImage algorithm mix the center information into your front channels and you sit pretty dead center between these.

Using 2 BL17 would not bring you much further, since the only problem (that I see there) could be the socalled ‘comb-filtering effects’, that exist, when you use 2 speakers as a combined center speaker.

If - after a proper calibration - you really still want to change something, you could try out one of the dedicated B&O center speakers: BL7-4 or BL10.

Whether that will be a good idea for ‘design reasons’ in your room, you must know. Technically there is no problem in having a BL7-4/10 working in some Speaker Groups and the internal speakers in others.

MM