Sound quality difference Stage vs Eclipse

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What a fantastic clean setup! I really like the colour of the wall that the Shape is situated on too, its interesting and different and the tile colours compliment it very well. Always enjoy seeing these thoughtful setups, which inevitably do take a lot of time and planing but well worth it for the end result. Enjoy! Simon.

To make my thread complete for future reference I add some pictures of the final setup. I also add some thoughts after living with the setup for 2 weeks and testing various speaker groups and settings. 

First, I'm very happy I went this B&O route and added the Eclipse and all other stuff. 

Questions which came along are, does an Eclipse need a sub? No it doesn't need a sub in essence BUT the Beolab 19 adds a whole lot of stuff to the overall sound image, for me it makes the sound just much more special and with movie you get the shakes and rattles which only a sub can do. 

I also tried to turn off the BL19 and use the Shape as rear speakers. In this case the bass management uses the Shape for the lower frequencies .This works very good actually. It gives a nice clean bass, not as deep as the BL19 but more deep than the Eclipse on its own. The BL19 can get a bit punchy at times but this might has to do with its corner position as well. For now I don't have a better place for it so I will live with it. 

TrueImage is a very cool processor, initially I turned off my surround speaker for watching regular TV but I found the TrueImage adds some nice surround to TV programs as well, so actually almost everything I play in 5.1 now :) 

My B&O Icons:

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