Poor bass on my Beoplay A9 Mk.4

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Jarle (archived2)
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Posted February 10, 2020 at 15:34 GMT
#2133583

Hi, 

My first question on this forum :)  

I recently bought a Beoplay A9 Mk.4. I have calibrated my speaker that is placed in a corner using the room compensation function. I have to admit that I am really disappointed with the amount of bass this loudspeaker is providing. I have a $300 Harman Kardon speaker that have way more bass than the Beoplay. I suspect the room compensation function is reducing the bass because it is placed in a corner. My sound settings are by the way Bass +10 (max bass), enhanced sound activated and the equalizer on Party-settings. If I play really loud I get some base but on low levels there is very little base. My living room is quite small so there are few places to place it without corners or walls behind the speaker. I am streaming the music using Airplay. 

My questions are: Is it possible to disable or reset the room compensation so I can see if this is the problem? Or do you have any suggestions on what to do to enhance the bass on this speaker? 

Thank you in advance :) 

Regards, 

Jarle 

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CasperI (archived2)
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Posted February 10, 2020 at 18:02 GMT
#2133584

Take your A9 outside and re-calibrate. Should male a huge difference 👍

 

The built-in calibration is quite aggressive 

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Borsalino (archived2)
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Posted April 29, 2021 at 12:27 GMT
#2133585

It helped for me to just simply turn off the room compensation. When it was on and i pitched the bass to the max nearly no difference was audible. Only Loudness had some small effect in lower volume levels. However turning room compensation off switched the bass to another level. B&O should find a way to have room compensation on but still adjust the bass on an extended level.

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Jarle (archived2)
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Posted May 1, 2021 at 19:11 GMT
#2133586

How did you turn off the room compesation? 

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Jarle (archived2)
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Posted May 1, 2021 at 19:11 GMT
#2133587

How did you turn off the room compesation? 

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Borsalino (archived2)
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Posted September 9, 2021 at 14:41 GMT
#2133588

Hi by simply turning it off in the B&O App. Go to audio settings, there is one menu point "Room compensation". click on deactivate (if its turned on).

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