Thanks for your thoughts John. I wonder, given what you have said, would you still choose the Horizon over the BV11-46 then? I guess I would be spending the same amount for either. The Horizon offers 4K plus an extra 2" screen size and a newer panel, which is backlit albeit global dimming that is not anywhere as good as full dimming 512+ zones that the former BV7-55 Mark 2 utilised.
Having thought it through a bit more, I will probably buy 2 x BL3s on floor stands and a BL2 sub to go with the BL9s as fronts, so that would be my surround setup. So BV11-46 or Horizon as the tv?
Cheers,
Simon.
Hi Simon
Firstly an apology to you and other contributors; I made a first post on the topic that simply disappeared into cyber space when I hit 'post', so not having saved it, I made another shorter one which did post successfully - I now see the first post has come through as well - apologies to all for two posts saying the same thing effectively.
To address your query; in a surround sound setup as your are proposing, and as a TV to use in the interim whilst B&O move towards OLED etc, I would go with the latest tech and the biggest screen size - ergo the Horizon.
May I suggest you have a look at the latest technical sound guide out for the TV, and check out the fine details for bass redirection in the speaker setup table; I'm pretty sure that at Factory defaults the bass will be redirected to the speaker set considered to be the most capable in terms of handling low bass for LFE etc. In the case of my V1-40. the only speaker where bass will not be redirected to the Lab 9's for surround sound purposes, are Lab 5's.
That is to say, a single Beolab 2 is not considered as capable as TWO Beolab 9s when it comes to handling low bass/LFE effects for the system.
There was a discussion some years ago with Dr. Geoff Martin, which resulted from a post I made asking about how Adaptive Bass Linearisation worked; apparently one Beolab 2 is roughly equal to one Beolab 9 - the Lab 2 will play slightly lower and louder, but with the Lab 9, you have two of them in play.
So unless you deliberately 'tell' the system to re-route all low bass to the Lab 2, low bass will be re-directed to the Lab 9's in conjunction with Lab 3's at the rear, making the Lab 2 potentially redundant. Of course, one may prefer to use a single sub, for reasons of placement etc, or to tie in with the Lab 3's to make them a full bandwidth system.
But certainly on movie LFE material I find the bass output of the Lab 9's prodigious to say the least - many times I jumped up in alarm on first listen to some movies thinking something in the speaker had broken! - only to find various objects in the room buzzing and vibrating in sympathy with the bass - including doors in frames! Awesome! And no, I don't 'thrash' the system - usually on movies I'm listening circa 60 on the volume, max being 90, in a room 5 x 4 metres.
And lastly, once you have a new Beovision TV with OLED etc in a year or so, the Horizon is still a very up to date set re technology, that as a design is very versatile for further use in other areas in the home.
Anyway, just my thoughts... hope it helps..
Kind regards
John.. :-)
