Sound profile - a perspective on comparing Beolab 9 with Beolab 20

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elephant wrote:

Michael:

Listen to interstellar soundtrack, particularly ‘Stay’.

I love the movie even though it is very fiction. The sound track is a really good example of Hans Zimmer and it feels like he takes inspiration from Arvo Pärt, which incidentally is the composer of one of the songs in the movie Gravity.

Enjoy

Thanks for tip/lead ... listening now

BeoNut since '75

OMG

Thank you Michael

When I first answered your post I had been listening to Joan Baez on Apple Music to my BV8/BL3s/BL19.

So I just went to interstellar from there and kept working.

I started listening to “Stay” — seemed too quite so flipped to first track.

Still quite, ho hum, shrugged kept working ...

All of a sudden I was enveloped by this glorious bass.

I couldn’t believe the quality of sound.

So pressed pause and rushed to my BL20s in the other room and used Deezer.

Again quietness then eventually rolling bass.

But a totally different bass !

And my floor boards are throbbing !!

I am going to have to spend half of the Wednesday to come moving between rooms and luxuriating in these experiences.

I can’t stay thank you thank you thank you enough.

It is experiences like this which make me fall in love with my B&O again and treasure my investments.
Millemissen wrote:

If you like the work of Hans Zimmer, you should go for this....

.....which admittedly should involve more than just the BL20’es (as fronts).

MM

There is a tv - and there is a BV.

Thanks MM I shall book mark that for Wednesday

Listening to snippets now

Different of course because it’s “live”

I do mean the blu ray - the multichannel version ;-)

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

elephant wrote:
elephant wrote:

 

Michael:

 

Listen to interstellar soundtrack, particularly ‘Stay’.

 

I love the movie even though it is very fiction. The sound track is a really good example of Hans Zimmer and it feels like he takes inspiration from Arvo Pärt, which incidentally is the composer of one of the songs in the movie Gravity.

 

Enjoy

 

Thanks for tip/lead ... listening now

 

BeoNut since '75

 

 

OMG

 

Thank you Michael

 

When I first answered your post I had been listening to Joan Baez on Apple Music to my BV8/BL3s/BL19.

 

 

So I just went to interstellar from there and kept working.

 

I started listening to “Stay” — seemed too quite so flipped to first track.

 

Still quite, ho hum, shrugged kept working ...

 

 

All of a sudden I was enveloped by this glorious bass.

 

I couldn’t believe the quality of sound.

 

 

So pressed pause and rushed to my BL20s in the other room and used Deezer.

 

 

Again quietness then eventually rolling bass.

 

 

But a totally different bass !

 

 

And my floor boards are throbbing !!

 

 

I am going to have to spend half of the Wednesday to come moving between rooms and luxuriating in these experiences.

 

 

I can’t stay thank you thank you thank you enough.

 

 

It is experiences like this which make me fall in love with my B&O again and treasure my investments.

Thanks elephant for your wonderful message about your experiences. 

I totally agree. Was just revisiting this old thread as a member on a Facebook forum asked about the differences between the 9 and 20s.

now listening to the STAY track from inferatellar again. But this time on 50s. Marvelous. And after having seen the movies a few times, it really adds another dimension to the experience.

as I’m writing this my wall is shaking, and my neighbors are getting upset (I am sure).

good night :) 

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