DocLeisure wrote:

there is still room for improvement and B&O is reshaping their entire product portfolio.

It looks to me as The Beolab 5 are the next in the pipeline...

I hope they will cost the same price as the bl5 at their launch not the actual price.

I do think they are already in the pipeline. They can't left the flagship without WISA built in. It wouldn't logical at all

Coincidentally, I went to my local dealer where I ordered the BeoLab 5s.  The should be here in early June (I'm in the US).

I asked about any rumors about the BeoLab 5 successor.  He alluded to the WISA format being added.  He also thought that the new speaker would be even more powerful than the BL5 and have a cost of about twice the BL 5!

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Coincidentally, I went to my local dealer where I ordered the BeoLab 5s.  The should be here in early June (I'm in the US).

I asked about any rumors about the BeoLab 5 successor.  He alluded to the WISA ability being added.  He also thought that the new speaker would be even more powerful than the BL5 and have a cost of about twice the BL 5!

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I think you Will be satisfied with your Beolab 5. They are verry good speakers. But remember that even if B&O claims that you can put them where you like in the Room and that they Will give you the same preformance is not true. With the right placement for your Room you Will find out how good they are.

Even if a new bl5 is on their way the "old" ones are superior to most competition out there.

@ DocLeisure

Listen the new BeoLab 20 !

Amazing Loudspeaker for BL 5's half price.

Very elegant and compact, the BLs 20 are simplier to live with WISA.

Let's buy them ! They are available.

Wilderwein wrote:

I think you Will be satisfied with your Beolab 5. They are verry good speakers.

It this was directed at me, considering what the BL5's will be replacing, you have never been more right!!

 

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Would imagine Beolab 21 (or what ever its designation is) would be a 2014/15 update of the Beolab 5 on the same principle as the Beolab 20 is a modernisation of the Beolab 9.

Cant see the BL(21)XX as a new revolutionary sucessor  to the revolutionary BL5 but may encompass better everything to sound better, build cheaper and increase added-value/margin.

Mistake they made with the BL5 for a while was it was as good as the best out there but far, far cheaper when the loudspeaker/amp combo is considered. I bet we dont see change for £18-20k on the new model.

If new Beolab 5s come, I hope they don't look like penguins.