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OK but what’s holding the key in its place? I must be missing something because yesterday the arrow and volume key weren’t attaching to the remote but now i have almost all the lower part that isn’t attaching anymore.

 

Once a key is out there’s no way it will attach to the remote again which is very unusual for such an expensive unit.

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Thanks everyone for the suggestion. I paired the speakers to a beosound moment and guess what? the BL20’s sound awesome.

It’s not my imagination or a placebo effect because I can hear stuff rattling and shaking in the room. I immediately reset the Avant NG ( reinstall TV) but unfortunately that didn’t help.

For here I think it’s either the TV is doing something really nasty or I just need to live with it and use the internal speakers. I’ll keep the BL20’s for music only on BS moment.

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Hi Geoff, I was commenting on your blog but looks like you were faster.

I do realize that the Avant has in Sound settings an option to enable/disable loudness as well as clipping protection but lack of bass extension in the 40Hz down to whatever the Bl20 can play is surprising.

Do you believe changing the source would change the speakers behavior? I don’t wanna waste my money if the speakers are designed to play the way they are.

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Thanks. It looks like I did a mistake and picked up a $15k pair of speakers that have a very aggressive ABL and that was the difference between the BL5 and the BL20s.

I also believe that the latest firmware update had changed the characteristics of the ABL because even the dealer admitted that the MK1 version had a lot of circuit board replacement and  power supply failures so that’s my only explanation.

Will call the dealer and see if I can downgrade the firmware and report from there.

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When I say high volumes I mean 55-60 max because I have neighbors but the speakers are 30 cm from the wall as seen in the pic. It’s an open space that I have around 80m2 but nevertheless and from my experience low frequency bass should be heard specifically if you stand in the corner which is not happening.

The speakers are capable of going as low as 19 Hz ( yeah +-3 dB ) but the point is that this bass is being somehow cancelled and you can feel that the speakers are intentionally cutting deep bass for some reason. I tried playing with the Avant settings and trying different settings but they all are the same.

One thing I would like to mention is that the dealer visited me couple of months ago and updated the firmware of the speakers and I feel that ever since, the issue was amplified. Could be my imagination but certainly not what I’m expecting.

I have a pair of old stand floor bipolar mirage speakers each with 2 x 6″ bass drivers each and believe me the bass extension can be heard in the entire building. Certainly not possible with the BL20’s which is very very odd.

I’m honestly out of ideas and the speakers are set to freestanding mode which is the highest bass you can get.

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Beosound moment hands down… Then literally every B&O speaker…

I have a pair of BeoLab20 and I hate them, really hate them because the DSP does very funny things with the bass and it depends on the genre you’re listening to.

I have couple of B&O Palatial speakers in the other room with an SVS SB-3000 subwoofer and I can assure you that they sound much better than my BL20s…

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