Thanks for sharing :)  A bit upsidedown but anyway 🙂  Love to see the complete installation and listening impression from a real home.

Hi Carsten,

Thanks for sharing, that is great to see the Stage unboxing.  I have also filmed an unboxing and setup video of the Stage in store, which may interest you:-

Sure - just need to tidy up first 😕

Had a bit of work with it as I put it on the wall twice - first by following the B&O template, but found the Stage sitting too far below the TV to my liking. Following the template there was approx. 5 cm from bottom of TV to top of Stage. I ended up mounting it some 2.5 cm below the TV which I found to give a more coherent appearance - more like "one TV unit" rather than a TV and a soundbar.

I was also wondering what to do with the 2 sticky dots found in the installation box (no instructions what to do with them), but found out they go on the back of the stage to make it flush with the wall. Without the stickers it had an ever so slight downwards tilt...

Setting it up was OK, however I was a bit surprised to have to go through Google Home... Then it got paired with the Beoremote one, and yes - you can then control the LG with the Beoremote 🙂. Only issue I have had is that I can't control my AppleTV 4K (connected to the HDMI 1 on the TV) with the Beoremote. I can control it with the LG remote, so a bit strange...

I also connected my Beolab 18 by plugging the WISA stick in the TV (idea was to replace my Transmitter 1), but there is no sound control (bass/treble etc) possible with the WISA stick - so not too happy with that solution as the 18's sound more "flat". One nice feature of the WISA stick is that the 18's turn on much faster than what they do using the Transmitter 1. I'm now considering the Axiim Link WISA unit instead as it has a build in DSP. Has any of you out there any experience with the Axiim unit ? 

Hi Carsten

i have answear on your problem with control apple tv with your Beoremote one. 

At first time setup, before you connect your stage to the LG TV, you should turn off auto detection, before you connect stage. 

Because LG have a function that understand witch product that is connected, and make a handshake so it control the apple tv true IR with magic mouse. 

To fix this if this was not turn off, you go in an turn off auto detection. :Settings - connection - hdmi device settings - auto device detection, and make sure HDMI - CEC is turn on. 

Then you need to go into the HDMI you have your apple tv connected, and reset this handshake to magic mouse. 

Press home button on Beoremote one, go to home dashboard to left on the LG screen. go in the right top corner and find settings, go to device connector - go to set up box and find your HDMI 1, if it stand a remote control on the side off the hdmi, go and press reset device.
Then you can use your beoremote one. 

hope you get it work :) 

Your local dealer should know this :) 

Hi Again

I hope more people that buy this LG and Stage combination can use this post to give experience on other set up box and HDMI - CEC control true LG screen and with beoremote one. 

witch set up box can be full controlled with this system. Because this is not been so much exprience yet. 

Apple TV we now work, but other set up box. 

Cheers, 

Andreas

Hi Andy,

Excellent - thanks, great help - appreciated ! 

At last - final setup done. It took a while to find the proper furniture needed to hide all the ugly electronics.

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Now I'm just considering if we should change the front cover on the Stage to a different color. TV can be controlled by a BeoRemote One - that I like and use - and the LG remote - that my wife like and use... oh well...

Hi carsten

2 questions:

1. Why get the stage when you have the 18’s?

2. how would you compare the stage against the 18’s for movies and music

Well - good questions 🙂

1. At the time I bought the Stage, there was no way to connect the 18's wirelessly directly to the LG, and no way to just play music without the LG screen being turned on. So in short, I could not get a smooth Music/TV user experience with LG + 18's. For the smooth experience I had to buy a B&O TV, but I was not prepared to pay the price for the B&O OLED experience.

So second best was a "B&O light" version where the Stage would give the TV sound a boost, plus allow me to use the BeoRemote One for the LG+AppleTv (one remote for all). Since I already had the 18's from my previous set-up, I did connect them to the TV and is able to use them, but not at the same time as the Stage. On top it's not super user friendly - but - important - my wife can manage to turn everything on and make it work... 

I really hope the next Stage will have WISA build in allowing me to connect the 18's to the Stage for a full B&O sound experience - and listen to music without having to turn on the TV. 

2. The 18's are almost 4 time the price of the Stage, and also a good deal better to listen to. The Stage is excellent value for the money, but can't match the 18's in "airiness", definition and clarity and naturally - the broader stereo perspective. The Stage do however deliver a sold bass rumble / subwoofer punch that for some movie scenes can impress compared to the 18's.