I would love to hear it! BeoLab 5s would be the ideal choice...

I have heard the Lab 5s in a small concert type setting (lives blues/jazz to about 200 people) and they performed well and as one would expect I guess. Not sure what else to say about the experience as I am not too bothered either way how they are used. A speaker is a speaker to me, it repoduces sound and you use the appropriate one for the type of setting you are in. I wouldn't expect to see Lab 5s used for anything bigger as I think they would look odd at a concert and not fit in. Just my view.

Simon.

It would most definitely be interesting to hear live music as you say. Are you thinking of arranging something then?

Craig🙂

I'd really like to hear live music through BL5's. IIRC was it kingstreet that had someone playing guitar through BL9's at one point? I think I remember seeing that in a thread a while back. If so, how did you find that worked out?

Robert. 

KingStreet - you have a PM RE: lab 5s as PA speakers.

BeoLab 5s work extremely well in small/medium club sound reinforcement, particularly for acoustic and jazz/pop acts.  I've been using a pair at a local music school (Indian Hill Music Center, in Littleton, MA) for both rock/metal reinforcement and also the occasional jazz or acoustic evening, in a medium sized recital hall (ca. 250 seats).  They sound terrific, the bass correction is an absolute godsend, and (counterintuitively) they are extremely resistant to feedback while also giving the players on-stage a much better sense of the house mix.  

There is also a pair of BL5s in a lecture/recital hall at Berklee College of Music, doing hard service for rap/hiphop, jazz recitals, music synthesis demonstrations, and so on.  I would love an "industrial-strength" version for such work, but even the stock systems work very well.  

Caveat: they will succumb to high-level abuse (I've proved that!), and need a little care when levels in the room exceed 105 dB SPL (I now use a compressor/peak limiter in line with them).  And they won't replace a stack of Marshall bass amps.  

BeoLab 9s simply don't have eough power for any reasonable reinforcement other than a folk guitarist in a small cafe.  

At Sausalito Audio, we've built and tested several ALT equipped guitar amp prototypes, and feel there is real potential there.  It's a pity we don't have the time or resource to develop it.  

I hope this helps.  

Best regards, and Happy Easter!  (Be sure to count your Easter Eggs BEFORE you hide them all – this advice from sad experience!)

Hi Dave - Happy Easter.

Hope your mini road trip to Europe was OK.
 
Thanks for your description of Lab 5's in use as reinforcement speakers - and also to Alex for his.

We are 9/10 of the way to having a fairly big name ( in the acoustic/folk world ) confirmed for an instore performance in about 6 weeks.  More info as and when, but I am looking forward to this a lot....

🤔 Sounds like a photo' opportunity looms.👍

Happy Easter everybody!

Andy T.