Hi again, I put the hdmi straight to the TV and couldn’t control Apple TV so you’re right. The 17.4 update messed up the CEC, not the BST update.

Thanks for clarifying!

When you go to the cinema the sound from their rear speakers is louder than at home with my Theatre and connected speakers (relative to the other speakers in the system).

Do you also find that is the case? In the cinema the rear speakers are more dominant with effects where at home they are much more subtle to the extent the effects from the rear are only really obvious with loud effects. I have run the Theatre calibration and trusted these settings but do you find the Theatre calibration is too conservative when it comes to allowing the rear speakers to contribute to the overall sound experience?

Do you make your own adjustments after the Theatre calibration or do you use it it as is?

You don't always want the sound to be what the producers want it to be. In the end, you want your home theater to sound the way you want it to be. Use your preferred calibration to start but make adjustments as needed so your room sounds the best to you.

For my room I like my BL17 surround 2db louder than « reference »

I think, from what I have observed here and on Discord, that a good proportion of BST owners do the calibration, and subsequently will tweak the dB levels. So no need to be reticent I guess.

The distances from the room sense process seemed more or less Ok in my case, but for my rear/surrounds (17s) the process produced dB values of around -5db.  I raised them both to closer to 0.

That said, most of what I watch is live sport, and even the 5.1 sports broadcasts are pretty weak on surround effects.

I guess you can boost the dB levels alot - though in that case I do question whether the overall image (including fronts and BST itself) then becomes a bit strange / compromised.  So within sensible limits, no hesitation in boosting the assigned values.

Thanks guys, that helps a lot.

My setup in addition to the Theatre is

1x Beolab 2

2x Beolab 1

4x Beolab 4000

Two of the lab 4000's are near the ceiling playing over listening position and the two other lab 4000's are in the back.

I just noticed the the Theatre calibration had made the two lab 4000's in the back as "left back" and "right back" while the two lab 4000's in the ceiling were "left surround" and "right surround". This is all correct and a standard 7.1 setup. However, my aim was rather to make it into an Atmos system as 5.1.2

So, I have now changed it to so the two lab 4000's in the rear of the room are now "left surround" and "right surround" while the two lab 4000's in the ceiling above the listening position are "left front height" and "right front height".

I will give this a go and see if more sound is coming from the rear of the room. I suspect it will. Then I will try to adjust the dB levels of the speakers if need be.

Though I haven't yet, I intend to study the technical sound guide so I can make the most out of this system.

Is anyone having problems connecting to the theatre using the android app? It has started but is soo slow and keeps dropping out/ offline? Any suggestions would be great, or do I have to do another reset?

Thanks :)

Both the app and the Theatre is dependant on their own network connection. Are you sure the smartphone and the Theatre has a good network connection?

Absolutely, I run a mesh setup & the theatre is hard wired. Never had any issues before, but if no-one else is having problems with the connection then I'll try a reset?

 

I experienced simmilar issues with the iOS app. It looks like the app isn't getting the data from the Theatre. Logging out and back fixed it for me, although for a short period.