V1 with Beolab 14.1

- 4 speakers + 1 sub attached

- 2 listening positions (1 is rarely used)

- 5 speaker groups (mainly use 3 speaker groups)

- Set everything up by my self

BV11 with BL11

1 listening position

2 speaker groups (1 with only BV11 and one with TV + BL11)

Set up everything myself

Looking to gett the Beolab 14 2.1 to both improve stereo sound and sub

Geoff Martin wrote:

Marcello wrote:

Apologies for going slightly off-topic (I have a BV10 so I'm excluded from the poll for the moment), but when I was enquiring about a BV11 or Avant, a dealer told me that setting up different listening positions would be effective only with a 3-speaker setup (2 external, front only), and that it would not work properly with 4 external speakers(2 front + 2 surround)... Is that accurate information?

With apologies to your dealer: This is not only inaccurate - it's incorrect.

Consider, for example, an Avant with 4 external loudspeakers - Lf/Rf & Ls/Rs in the "normal" viewing position.

You could, as an example, sit on the TV and face the "surround" loudspeakers and create a Speaker Group that makes them Left Front and Right Front.

If all of the external loudspeakers are matched (i.e. the same model) then you could also use the room "sideways" by making a Speaker Group that uses the Lf  loudspeaker to play the Right Front channel and the Ls loudspeaker to play the Left Front channel. Then you sit between the (normally) Rf & Rs loudspeakers (which are turned off in this Speaker Group) and face the left side of the room.

Cheers

-geoff

That's what I thought too... I'm interested in a single speaker group, but being able to set up 3 listening positions to properly balance speakers level (in front of the TV, left side of the couch, right side). Thanks for the clarification, I am relieved! Now I can't wait for the renovation at home to be completed :)

BV11-50

4 speakers

5 Speaker Groups

3 Listening positions

Set up myself

I'm guessing this data is collected via the TV to B&O for those who accepted to share product usage information?

BV11-55  attached speakers: 8 + sub

2 positions (generally using 1)

4 speaker groups (generally using 1)

setup: myself

BV11-46 attached speakers: 6 + sub

1 postion

3 speaker groups (generally using 1)

setup: myself

i Currently have 2 speaker set ups -one for tv and one for projector

5 speakers attached to the TV setup -very good sound (Front and rear BL8000 with centre 7.4)

7 speaker connected to tv for the projector setup (BL4000 rear with external centre speaker in ceiling)

proplem with this setup is Dialogue not very good I have to turn it very loud to hear dialogue but then sound effects would be too loud so end using speaker 4 setup not ideal solution but hoping when avant is purchases i would be able to setp volume levels of each individual speaker including the centre channel where the problem seems to be

any help or suggestions would be welcome

Marcello wrote:

That's what I thought too... I'm interested in a single speaker group, but being able to set up 3 listening positions to properly balance speakers level (in front of the TV, left side of the couch, right side). Thanks for the clarification, I am relieved! Now I can't wait for the renovation at home to be completed :)

Just to be clear: Are you talking about making a single Speaker Group that is optimised for a listening area that is big enough for three people? Or are you talking about three distinct listening positions, with a Speaker Group for each?

Cheers

-geoff

quader wrote:

i Currently have 2 speaker set ups -one for tv and one for projector

5 speakers attached to the TV setup -very good sound (Front and rear BL8000 with centre 7.4)

7 speaker connected to tv for the projector setup (BL4000 rear with external centre speaker in ceiling)

proplem with this setup is Dialogue not very good I have to turn it very loud to hear dialogue but then sound effects would be too loud so end using speaker 4 setup not ideal solution but hoping when avant is purchases i would be able to setp volume levels of each individual speaker including the centre channel where the problem seems to be

any help or suggestions would be welcome

What hardware do you have? If you have TV and a projector setups, then I guess you're using a BeoSystem 3?

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I voted too.

Question was about 'Speakers Groups', so here we go.

On my V1-32 I have 2 groups:

1 for all - it's the default.

And a second one (9) for my headphones (H6) only - driven by a small headphone amp.

Well - there are 4 groups actually.

The others are relicts from an experiment I did with a BL Passive (as amp) and some passive speakers.

They are:

2 for stereo. Means the external speakers - for music only.

3 for external speakers (right/left) and the V1 internal speakers as center. Meant for all kind of video (exept for news and alike) - untill I dumped the externals for that room.

I let them in, because you never know, if you are going to need them again sometime 😁

Of cource I did them myself - that is part of the fun!

MM

Geoff Martin wrote:

With apologies to your dealer: This is not only inaccurate - it's incorrect.

The dealers should 'play' a little with their gear in the shop at spare times....

Once you get a grip on how this 'Speakers Group'-thing works, you realize that it is a brilliant idea 🤒

MM