Took some new pics of my theatre now that I've had it about a month.  Love it more every day.

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A quick question for those of you playing around with the B&O app and the theatre. Where is the 'Loudness' option? I found it a couple of days ago, and lol like hell I can find it again.

How is the app working for you all? I am finding it quite laggy and buggy. Sometimes my listening positions are there and other times they are not.

I want to simplify the listening experience, what mode do I use if I just want to listen to music without any particular position? (When I'm just around the room and not planted on the couch.)

My Theatre was installed on Sat with the table mount option on a 65" LG TV, the TV was delivered Fri specifically for the theatre. This setup is a huge departure from the norm for me  (Beogram>Beomaster 6000>Beovox 3000) and it takes a while to get used to.

 

The app has a strange organisation of where things are. The source info is via settings which is a bit of a long winded way of finding out if it's stereo/atmos etc that is getting sent to the bar. I also find you can't delete a sound setting once you create it, you can swipe and press delete but nothing happens.

BeoApp Front Page

Select Theatre >> Scroll down to Sound >> Sound settings >> Other settings

How many different external speakers can you connect to the Theatre?

B&O writes, Advanced Sound Features:
Integrated 7.1.4
Dolby Digital plus 7.1 (including DD5.1)

Does that suggest that using external speakers one can only utilise 7.1 whereas the Theatre on its own can handle 7.1.4 different channels?

Further, hardwiring to the Theatre, as each RJ45 can contain two sound signals, would it be possible to have front left and subwoofer on the same RJ45 to the Theatre or is the two speaker per RJ45 only meant for left and right speakers on the same position e.g. front speakers?

 

I’ll try and answer this as best as I can. I’m sure many will correct me?

1. The BSTheatre has 7 speakers and as a standalone soundbar, it can fire those speakers to make a pleasant go of spacial sound. I don’t think it can compete with a multi-speaker setup of its own tuning.

2. The BSTH has 4 wired Powelink paired connections and I believe 4 WISA paired connections. For a 7.1.4 system, you need 5 pairs of speaker, plus, possibly a subwoofer and the Theatre. This will mean some aspect of your setup will need both wire and wisa.

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3. If all 7.1.4 channels are presented to the HDMI input from the source and processed through the Atmos, but there are speaker groups missing, the BSTH will down-sample to the best output.

4. I believe when external Beolabs are added, the side and up-firing BSTH drivers are disabled. Why that is I don’t know just yet but that is what I observe in my system.

I personally feel a traditional 5.1 (2 fronts, centre, 2 flank) loudspeaker set is enough sound output without occupying too much real estate and clutter in the room that a further 3 sets would entail.

 

It have 8 Powerlink output (4x2)

And 8 WiSa output

So you can connect a total of 16 speakers.

Thank you all. Can a subwoofer share a wired connection with any other speaker like a front left speaker?