Your experience is interesting. I have never had the opportunity to do the comparison you did. We have Beolab 9s with a subwoofer and Beolab 1s as the rears. We are very happy with the sound. My understanding is that no subwoofer is needed with the Beolab 5s as the bass in them is better than most subwoofers. With the Beolab 9s some say a subwoofer is needed, others say it is not.

I would like to be able to do the same listening test you did.

Razlaw wrote:

Your experience is interesting. I have never had the opportunity to do the comparison you did. We have Beolab 9s with a subwoofer and Beolab 1s as the rears. We are very happy with the sound. My understanding is that no subwoofer is needed with the Beolab 5s as the bass in them is better than most subwoofers. With the Beolab 9s some say a subwoofer is needed, others say it is not.

I would like to be able to do the same listening test you did.

 

Hello

i have listened in a b&o store because i want to buy 1 of those set-up maybe you could go

to a store an try it

3 possibilities :

1. The room was too small or difficult to analyse for the integrated microphone of the Beolab5, so that there were this lack of bass.

2. There was a material in the room, like wooden floor, that made the bass response misbehave, so that the Beolab 5 limited their bass level.

3. The beolab 5 were not calibrated correctly...

There is an interesting thread on the Beolab 5 bass issue on the general forum.

But what is sure is that the 5's doesn't need a Beolab 2.

I think in a BL5 setup it would "filter oout" the BL2 since the BL5 can go deaper then BL2.

I think its just how the program works (i.e. how BO implements 5.1 with BL5) .... I can see though that you might like the BL5 setup with an active BL2 more in a 5.1 scenario .... I keep reading that you should not be able to locate the BL2 in a music setup, however in a 5.1 recorded track the engineer may just play with that channel in a way that BL5 (per B&O programming) do not exactly replicate the expeirence that you get with an active BL2.

Very interesting. discussion .......

jk1002 wrote:

I think in a BL5 setup it would "filter oout" the BL2 since the BL5 can go deaper then BL2.

I think its just how the program works (i.e. how BO implements 5.1 with BL5) .... I can see though that you might like the BL5 setup with an active BL2 more in a 5.1 scenario .... I keep reading that you should not be able to locate the BL2 in a music setup, however in a 5.1 recorded track the engineer may just play with that channel in a way that BL5 (per B&O programming) do not exactly replicate the expeirence that you get with an active BL2.

 

Very interesting. discussion .......

Hello

thank you for you info i think you are right  when listingen to 5.1 to a bl5 i think they don t get the right signal to perform

just like a bl2 and in music you don t need the bl 2

also the staff advised me that