Front and Rear Speaker setup for Beosound Theatre

[Shadi Hameed]

Hi everyone.  Am new here.  I just recently purchased the beosound theatre and 2 beolab 17s.  It sound great together, with the beolab 17s as the rear surround.  Now I have my vintage beolab 2500 connected to the beosystem 2500.  I was thinking of unhooking them and putting it along with my other set up.  The question, for your experience, would be the beolab 17 be in the front while I use the beolab 2500 in the rear, or should I keep it vice versa.  I would love to hear your thoughts.

[Severed_hand_of_skywalker]

If you ONLY had the 17’s I think B&O would recommend you use them as rears as they would help fill the space around you better and bring more bass to the back of the room.  However the 2500’s aren’t the most modern or powerful speakers so using them as front L/R might overwhelm them. At the very least they will not sound anywhere as good as having the 17’s in the front.

The 2500 would be good as rear surround speakers as they would really just be filling the void of sound behind you which are never really all that loud or demanding.  Paired with the 17’s at the front it should all sound very impressive.

Since the theatre won’t be using the L/R built in speakers you can re-assign them to act as Centre (if that sounds too wide is up to your own taste) or you can set them to Sub Centre speakers for an extra kick.

Location: Toronto, Canada

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