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    Evan
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    Location: San Francisco
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    #38875
    laseralex
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    Absolutely brilliant!

    The 5’s are gorgeous, and the 7-55 is a perfect fit.  Your setup looks beautiful and I’m sure it will sound amazing.  I’m excited to read your future posts when it’s all up and running.

    Congratulations!

    #38876
    Valve1
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    Very nice kit Evan, enjoy !

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    #38877
    Tignum
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    VERY David Lewis. I share the BeoLab 5 dream with you. Hopefully one day my budget and BeoLab 5 prices will match too :-).

    Enjoy them! (time to warn the neighbours – I believe the calibration can give quite a bit of rumble?)

    Johan

    Location: Netherlands
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    #38878
    YannChris
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    Location: Brittany, France
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    #38879
    Evan
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    Thank you everyone! It really is a dream come true, never ever did I think this might really happen but here we are. I smile every time I come into the room. They photograph much smaller than in real life but

    I grew up in the David Lewis era of B&O and you can definitely tell that is my preferred period of products! The guys at the B&O dealer where I got my BV7 called it an “old” tv!

    The strangest thing is that the BV7 was never a favorite of mine but that is changing fast now that I can really appreciate it in person. It is so impressive and I like it more and more every day. The picture is still absolutely stunning!

    Location: San Francisco
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    #38880
    Evan
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    Now that the Royal Mail strike is finally over, I can get on with this project and finally hook up these BeoLabs. My cables from Steve were hung up for 3 days in my local post office if you can believe it!

    I was shaking (literally) from the anticipation and I was equal parts nervous and excited to finally kick off my very first BeoLab 5 calibration EVAR.

    At any rate, it’s all up and running now and simply mind blowing. I am running them in a tiny apartment so they are effortlessly filling the space with some extreme SPL. Unbelievably effortless sound. One main issue I have is I believe the speakers are too far apart for optimal imaging.

    I have deliberately kept myself from reading reviews of the 5s ahead of hooking mine up to keep the sound more of a mystery. Even though I have heard BeoLab 5s before, it’s been a few years since the last time I heard a pair. Impressions so far after a few hours of listening: Surprisingly bright, seems like the tweeter working hard and carrying a lot of the experience relative to the midrange. This was especially noticeable in recordings that are light in the treble section (example: Pinback’s vocalist seems to appear lower down on the speaker). However this could be magnified a bit due to the liveliness of my room. Early (and very informal) RT measurements routinely placed my room in the 400ms range. My seating position is quite close to the rear boundary of the listening area so the bottom octave is coming through loud and clear.

    The only reason I left my apartment today was to go retrieve Powerlink cables. I have been sat in front of this system all day rediscovering my music collection and it has been incredible. The BeoLab 5 is an epic machine.

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    #38881
    Evan
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    Location: San Francisco
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    #38882
    Tignum
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    Looks amazing against the natural stone wall. Living Colour must sound great! Nice to see you play some decent rock ? :-). Happy listening Evan!

     

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    #38883
    Evan
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    Location: San Francisco
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    Evan
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    Location: San Francisco
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    #56304

    Looks great in the new clean room. I always thought that centre speaker looked like an evil goatee though 😀

     

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    Evan
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