Beosound Emerge Stereo Pair

[MusicMan]

Does anyone have experience with a pair of Beosound Emerges? What does it sound like? Better than one Level or one Beosound 2?

[Steve at Sounds Heavenly]

Hi MusicMan,

Yes, I have stereo paired Emerges in my bedroom after starting with just one speaker (these replaced Beolab 4s, with CX100 and CX50 before them). The speakers are spread wide apart, each one is in a room corner as this seems to give the best sound. I absolutely love the sound and I have heard virtually every speaker that B&O has made in the past 30 years!

For music listening at low to medium levels (eg. up to 70dB) in a quiet room, I don’t think any other B&O speaker new or old can match them for their tonal balance. If you need your music louder than that (you can check this with a free Sound Pressure Level app on a phone) then other speakers will perform better than the Emerge as the volume level increases.

Two Emerges give more than double the enjoyment compared to one Emerge in my view. I use them with the Loudness setting turned on, as this gives the best sound to my ears.

Hope this helps,

Steve.

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[Razlaw]

I have a pair and am very happy with them, but have no experience with a Level or BS2.

[Tim]

Hi MusicMan,

 

we also added one BeoSound Emerge during the holiday season to our speakers in the house. Meanwhile we have 2 stereo sets of them and a total of 6 spread in all sorts of rooms.

the Emerge is a fantastic speaker by itself but if you add a second one for stereo setup they are amazing.
the best tip is to buy them with your dealer and arrange a return if you don‘t like them. You will end up buying more of them in the end 😉

 

like Steve said they are extremely good balanced and hard to beat at low and mid volume. I think they are way better than a pair of Levels.

[Sia43]

I have a pair of Emerges in the bedroom (16m2) room and a pair of levels in my living room (25 m2 plus a Beolab11 subwoofer), and I am happy with both settings.

As you can imagine, the acoustics of the rooms are quite different. I haven’t tried to compare them by installing them in the same room, nor have I compared them with only one speaker, as you lose too much spatial presence with only one speaker (this is my opinion).

They both do very well, while the levels do better. Not because they are louder but because they distribute the music better, have better room compensation and play less constraint.

Other speakers indeed play louder. I have heard many positive things about Beolab 17, for example. Still, in my opinion (with more emphasis on the sound quality rather than sound pressure), no other B&O speaker (Beolab 28 and below) can measure itself against a paired set of BS-Levels in a similar room size. I’ve tried BL3, BL17, BL18 and BL28 in the same room. However, I would like to try a pair of BS-Edge-s, but I don’t believe that they are likely to perform much better (sound quality-wise) than Levels as they lack room compensation processors.

I hope this helps.

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