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New product launch - beosound theatre?
in Theatre · Feb 8, 2024 10:52Severed_hand_of_skywalker wrote: Oh my god they finally updated the icon. Work in progress as its a bit of a trick to get it working. Great thanks, and it's also aware if you have stand or not! Looks a lot better now in …
BeoWorld - For Sale (UPDATED 18th Feb 2024)
in General Discussion & Questions · Jan 15, 2024 15:03Thanks for all the support over the years, I think there must be some group (or individual) who can keep the site and forum up and running? Maybe good to put up some general info, like running costs and number of paying …
THE BEOWORLD CHRISTMAS 2023 PRIZE DRAW !!
in Prize Draw · Dec 22, 2023 14:09Congrats on all the winners, super nice prices that are being won!
New product launch - beosound theatre?
in Theatre · Dec 7, 2023 12:25solidkd wrote: I have a pair of 18s connect to my BST as front left and right,and I set my BST front left and front right speaker as “subwoofer center” in b&o app and other BST drivers as “none”,but when playing music th…
Upgrade to Beosound Theatre or not.
in Theatre · Dec 4, 2023 14:35If you take the pull and rotate bracket from STB (https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/en-GB/product/Beosound-Theatre/Close-Wall-Bracket-Beosound-Theatre) you can easily hide your AppleTV behind the TV with their Decoder mount …
Beolab 8 arrived…
in BeoLab · Nov 29, 2023 15:08Yes, thats a great suggestion, I will try that one day with my BL19. As it's connected with wisa its quite easy to move it to a different location and just add a new listening position. In terms of practicality it will n…
Beolab 8 arrived…
in BeoLab · Nov 20, 2023 09:25Nice setup, I would also need to put them inside a cabinet as you have, not sure if that cabinet acts as a resonator for the sound? Or is room adaption able to work out that problem? How's your experience so far, compari…
Beolab 8 review video
in BeoLab · Nov 3, 2023 15:01syrianos82 wrote: Thank you again, made me understand the room sense a bit better now. The initial measurement that is ‘pushed’ to make a listening position might be confusing because the flow of the process is somewhat …
Beolab 8 review video
in BeoLab · Nov 3, 2023 09:50syrianos82 wrote: Thanks for the reply, I think I understand that the BST will not automatically assign double speaker roles to two different drivers. But this can be done manually if desired Would the BST calculate the …
BV Contour - any long term views/opinions?
in BeoVision · Oct 6, 2023 08:12Yes for a bedroom it would be perfect. Regarding surround/atmos, the stage doesn't have any side firing woofers but have 2 small up firing woofers. It's a 3.0 setup basically which is able to downmix Atmos content and pl…
BV Contour - any long term views/opinions?
in BeoVision · Oct 5, 2023 11:25If it would be for the living room, you really need to know that you lose all upgradeability with a Contour in terms of additional speakers. The price difference between a Theatre and Contour is quite big but I would rea…
Update Beosound Theatre 3.2.1
in Theatre · Sept 16, 2023 20:40As I understood they implemented a fix for the 2.0 PCM sound not being properly upmixed. I noticed a huge difference when watching 2.0 content with this update, its sound a lot better! Before it sounded like all sound wa…
Stage NG?
in BeoSound · May 31, 2022 15:24That's exactly what they have done. Only they decided to stick to a specific brand LG in order to make the integration part flawless. (Which is a very important point many people seems to be missing out on). Many dealers…
Sound quality difference Stage vs Eclipse
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 9, 2022 14:07To make my thread complete for future reference I add some pictures of the final setup. I also add some thoughts after living with the setup for 2 weeks and testing various speaker groups and settings. First, I'm very ha…
Dolby Atmos and TrueImage
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 7, 2022 19:58[quote user="Geoff Martin"] [quote user="swestland"] What happens if I have a 5.1 source, and a 5.1 speaker group which selected as TrueImage in Sound mode Movie. In that case the sound info always mentions downmix. But …
Dolby Atmos and TrueImage
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 7, 2022 10:57[quote user="Geoff Martin"] True Image is an up- /down-mixer that dynamically re-configures itself based on the channel allocations of the input and output configurations. For example if you have a 2.0 input and a 5.1 ou…
Flash your B&O - new thread!
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 4, 2022 15:11Nice! Love that speaker, enjoy it!
TrueImage VS Dolby Atmos
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 4, 2022 11:25When I'm playing a 5.1 LPCM source, my speaker group is 5.1 also. It still shows as 'downmix', right?
Odd moment when I switch on Sky Q on my Beovision Eclipse
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 3, 2022 16:03Got my eclipse yesterday and I'm having the same issue. Haven't really fiddled around with it yet, anyone found a solution? Everything works OK, but it just shows the wrong input name.
Flash your B&O - new thread!
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 3, 2022 10:28[quote user="Doubleola"] [quote user="swestland"] Today my Eclipse and BL19 are installed! Really happy with the end result. My Shape in the back is used as surround speaker all works like a charm :) 👍 [/quote] Are you …