New product launch - beosound theatre?

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Beo911
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 12:42 GMT
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My Theatre was delivered on Friday and i hooked it up with my Beolab 90’s cabled via Powerlink. I also borrowed a BS Core for testing and paired it to the BL90’s and the Theatre. Now the Theatre won’t recognize the PL-Connection automatically … looks like a software bug. If i want to watch TV i have to choose wireless mode for the BL90’s via Beo-App … switching to music via Core using the BL90’s only requires interaction with the app again, in order to switch back to Powerlink input again manually. Any ideas? Could be my faulty work, too of course. Cheers Tom
What is the benefit of adding the core? The Theatre already has Mozart so it can be a music system as well. I don’t have a BS Core so I don’t know if the old ASE platform still has some tricks up its sleeve
I wanted to use the BS Core for listening to music (only) through a dedicated source/transport. When i listened to BL90's in the B&O store using a BV Harmony compared to using a budget Bluesound Vault2 directly feeding the BL90's via coax the same day, it sounded better without the TV in the chain.
That's why i wanted to try the Core. TV and movies is not my priority with the BL90's ... for me it is 90% stereo music, und 10% surround music playing live concerts etc.. What would you suggest in order to exploit the best sound possible out of the BL90's in stereo and alternatively in a 5.1 or 5.2 setup? I would think, that the BL90's should benefit from a decent source feeding them.
My system speakerwise in the main living room is BL90 front, BS Theatre (floorstand) center, BL18 rear.
In another room it is BL5 front, BS Theatre (wall mounted) center, BL17 rear ... and maybe BL19 as rear sub, have to try it out.
Screens are LG Oled G2's in 77" and 65".
Have to find more time to play arround with the gear.
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Beo911
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 12:50 GMT
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Reading and understanding the Technical Sound Guide of BS Theatre and BL90 may help ... will try to do that the next days.
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Sandyb
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 12:53 GMT
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Different setup, similar experience here.

I feed music to my BL50s directly - via a 3rd party streamer / DAC - and it sounds better than if I route the same streamer through my BV (albeit my BV 12-65 is not one of the newer BVs).

My unit is a Linn streamer/DAC - I just didnt want to use a Core and / or the B&O app for music, nor just rely on Airplaying music to something as capable as 50s (or 90s in your case).

 
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 13:03 GMT
Edited November 21, 2022 at 13:04 GMT
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Beo911, OK, lets see if this puts you on a track worth considering.....
  1. BV Eclipse (Mk1 with cr@ppy LG Music Player)
  2. BL90, Powerlink from BV to BL90
  3. Equals cr@appy sound. No other BS product worthy in my opinion - including Core.
  4. I purchased an Auarlic G2 stack, feed BL90s via XLR. Happy but have to control 3rd party products which are not fully integrated into B&O Ecosystem.
I added the BL90s to the BeoApp (if you had the original BL90 App - as good - even better). Placed BL90 Line-sense into Automatic. Next Powerlink, XLR, SPDIF etc...Set Thresholds and time-outs. So for TV, Theatre all works properly with distributed sound. I have communicated to B&O (feedback as Beta user in Theatre-BeoApp) about Wide/Narrow/Omni settings and sync-ing needs some attention. For the Auralic system, BL90s fires-up, hits narrow mode etc.... I use an Essence Remote in IR mode for volume control, Auralic DAC set to 100% XLR output, use the Auralic App for tracks, albums etc.... BS Core definitely not required or missed. The only issue I had to watch (not tested on the BSTH yet), is when listening to Auralic music on the BL90, going to Sleep, the BL90s have a 60 sec minimum time-out to Standby. Firing up the Eclipse before the 60sec time-out, it recognised the BL90s as not available. This could be corrected on the BR1 control by List >> Speaker >> Video setting (video in my BR1 was to go to 5.1 sound, with Wide dispersion on the BL90). Hopefully that helps?
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 13:06 GMT
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B&O have just issued a BS Theatre update right now of v2.3.4.

Bugfixes and Stability improvements
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 13:18 GMT
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Beo911
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 13:26 GMT
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Thank you guys, for sharing your experiences.

I' am going to test some streaming transports within next weeks ... thinking about Antipodes K-Series and Grimm MU1, Innuos, Aurender and Nuprime Stream-9 ... i could source the above locally and take them home for testing.

I did not buy the Core, just asked the dealer if he cluld lend it to me for a week ... and he did.
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 13:34 GMT
Edited November 21, 2022 at 13:36 GMT
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Mr10Percent wrote:
Please give a description of connections of sources and cables. Sounds like there is some dirty noise getting into your system?

 

Ethernet into the input port then two ethernet cables out (one to Apple TV, the other to xbox series s)

HDMI from TV e-Arc to Theatre, two HDMI inputs A has Apple TV and B has xbox series s

Nothing else connected.
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 14:02 GMT
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Posted November 21, 2022 at 14:07 GMT
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