Jeff wrote:

From looking at the manual for the Wireless transmitter since it has a 2.1 option based on stereo in it appears it has a highpass? Yes, no, maybe?

The Wireless transmitter box has a built-in bass management system that is activated when it is in 2.1 mode. However, it does not have an adjustable crossover frequency (as in the BeoVision 11 / BeoPlay V1). Also, when you use the box's bass management, the low pass filter on the BeoLab 19 should be disabled to ensure that you don't have two low pass filters in the same frequency band.

Cheers

-geoff

But it does have a fixed highpass? Can you say what the freq and slope is?

Jeff wrote:

But it does have a fixed highpass? Can you say what the freq and slope is?

Hi again,

Oops, sorry - the wireless transmitter box's bass management system uses a high pass for the "main" loudspeakers and a low-pass for the subwoofer. Both the low-pass for the sub and the high-pass for the main signals are 4th order Linkwitz-Riley and has a fixed crossover frequency of 120 Hz. This is identical to the default setting in the BeoVision 11, which is described in the Technical Sound Guide, available at 

Thanks! I would imagine anywhere between 80 and 120 would work OK for the older 8000s, especially 4th order. 

Has anyone talked about the fact that the oak grille adds $1350 to a pair of Beolab 18's - making them $8,000? It's hard to defend the style over substance argument when they are asking $1350 for speaker grilles.

I do not know all the details, but haven´t they improved the speaker kind of? 

Anyways, either you got it or not. From my point of view the price point is right where it is supposed to be. 

Ryan wrote:

Has anyone talked about the fact that the oak grille adds $1350 to a pair of Beolab 18's - making them $8,000? It's hard to defend the style over substance argument when they are asking $1350 for speaker grilles.

What? The grills are $1350?! They aren't even all that.

Look at the bright side. There is a high chance that grills which will cover the lenses will be an option too.

I am seeing individual blades of varying lengths or paint marks making up the grill that mimics the shape of a sound wave. 

Insane is all i can say.

For that kind of money they must be sound very very very good.

Lars wrote:

I do not know all the details, but haven´t they improved the speaker kind of? 

Anyways, either you got it or not. From my point of view the price point is right where it is supposed to be. 

I am comparing a pair of penguins (Beolab 9) to a pair of Beolab 18 + a Beolab 19.

I shall be at my b&O shop to listen to both speaker pair/triple and then I have to think thrice about a replacement of my BeoVox Penta attached to the Arcam Solo ("sold" and soldered to my Beovision 8 as a pair of Beolab 5...). I hope it will be a hard choice ...

I think the winner is the beolab 9