SHAPE is a very beautiful speaker. The traditional surround speaker is too ugly. I want to use SHAPE as the surround speaker for 5.1 system
What should I do?
Is that possible?
thinks!
steven
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The idea of SHAPE as surround speaker
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Buy a complete Shape, including core and everything, and set it up.
Connect a RJ45 cable from the TV to the leftmost (master) amplifier in the setup.
Add the speakers in the TV's speaker group.
Use it. ;)
When using audio-sources from Core, the speaker will use the Band-on-the-wall algorithm. When using Powerlink it will automatically switch to stereo-filter, which is desired for use as surround speakers.
Hi Steven,
Welcome to Beoworld! Yes, this is possible. The simplest option is to buy an AV receiver with pre-out sockets (or a Beosystem processor) and split the Shape down into modules for each pair of audio channels.
Each stereo pair of channels (eg. front left and front right) should have one Shape amplifier and four Shape speaker tiles, then they can be configured to work as normal stereo speakers without Beosound Core (the "band on the wall" feature will be disabled).
Please let me know how many channels/Shape tiles you wish to use and which receiver or processor you have. I can then help you to get everything connected and working.
Kind regards, Steve.
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In the BeoHome in Struer they have a full multichannel Shape setup.
in the pic you only see the fronts, but there are also rears and surrounds and even heights (using the TrueImage processing of the BV Eclipse).
So yes, that is absolutely possible.
MM
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God that looks ugly as sin.
In the BeoHome in Struer they have a full multichannel Shape setup.
in the pic you only see the fronts, but there are also rears and surrounds and even heights (using the TrueImage processing of the BV Eclipse).
So yes, that is absolutely possible.
MM
I believe it was a product placement tribute to "Zoolander" 🙂
哦! 亲爱的史蒂夫，非常感谢你的回答
我的目的不是使用BEOVISION，而是使用其他品牌的电视，例如SONY。LAB18用于主扬声器，SHAPE用于中置扬声器和环绕扬声器，看起来非常漂亮
前级放大器使用ONKYO，发射器1和接收器1，形成一个完整的无线系统
这可以吗？
非常感谢你！Millemissen
我认为我的比赛应该比图片更美丽^ - ^
Thank you very much! christiank
I am very glad to know it can be combined like this. Thank you for your help
In this do you mean the RJ45 always remains cabled ? Or just for the product setup ? If you use a shape as rears can you also use it as a streaming device when you’re not using it as rears ?Buy a complete Shape, including core and everything, and set it up. Connect a RJ45 cable from the TV to the leftmost (master) amplifier in the setup. Add the speakers in the TV's speaker group. Use it. ;) When using audio-sources from Core, the speaker will use the Band-on-the-wall algorithm. When using Powerlink it will automatically switch to stereo-filter, which is desired for use as surround speakers.
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