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Mr.Anderson from the app team has posted on Discord – the removal etc of the volume control was not intended, a mistake and the app team are on the case (ASAP in his words).
So I imagine, thankfully, that this will be rectified relatively soon.
dont have a list of what’s changed – but you can now see the Battery Level / status – under List / Settings / Advanced / System Info……
I’ve sent them a message / feedback through the app.
Suggest others do the same too.
Ridiculous.
Yep, no processing (from a TV) of anything more than plain old 2.0.
Wasn’t expecting much more, but shame it doesnt do some surround processing nor have WISA to allow connecting more than one pair of BL’s.
The volume gain for individual sources is accessible under “… / Sources / Source Behaviour /”.
The select a source, scroll down the resulting page and there is a Volume Gain setting.
I’ve tried it, and it’s not obviously making much difference (I’ve set gain to +4 for one specific source so far).
From what I understand, they have closed the business.
Was mentioned on the podcast a few weeks ago.
Yikes – re having to crank up the volume, my understanding with the new 3.4 SW was that it should have improved this issue, not made it worse.
With 3.4, under Source Startup behaviour, you can now set a volume gain (or loss I guess!) as a default for each source. Not sure if you have tried this added feature yet, and whether it helps. Also be useful to know what signal inputs (2.0, 5.1 etc etc) produce this v low volume issue?
According to one of the B&O guys posts a few months back (on Discord), this volume adjustment was being added to deal with the “excessively quiet” volume that some users were reporting, especially for DD 5.1 signals.
I’ve updated my bedroom standalone BST to 3.4, and have not had quiet volume issues as yet. Not updated by larger living room BST setup as yet.
As someone with 2 BSTs, my feeling is that any signal processing issues are much more noticeable on larger setups as opposed to standalone ones.
What exactly are your issues with your 50s?
I have had a pair for 3 years now, the last year of which connected to a Theatre.
My general experience is that they have been fine.
sounds awesome – I have a Theatre set as Centre-Centre-Centre, 50s as FL/FR and 17s as surround/rears. Even without dedicated heights, its super impressive.
Remember, 28s/50s/90s are a few weeks away from a 15-20% price rise – so if you are in the market for any of those, I’d get in quick!
and yes, 15-20%!
Not sure it / the app knows anything about your/our setup to be honest.
I have 2 Theatres, both separately wall mounted from their respective LGs.
The app shows one BST (on 3.2.3) as a BV, despite it being separate pieces.
The app shows the other BST (on older 2.5.5) as just a sound bar.
And the one shown as a complete BV is a 55 inch (both pieces), so I think the app for the moment is just defaulting to 65 inch.
B&O said on the recent investor presentation that (at least?) one new products’ release has been pushed back into next year. By that I think they meant 2025 (one of the analysts asked for that clarification).
I think, during the interview, that he did mention that the 4 MyButtons would be appearing on the black Now Playing screen in an upcoming update, unless I heard him incorrectly.
That at least does answer of MM’s questions in advance I hope.
Thank you, Sandib! I have figured out, as it seems to me, this issue. The problem is that Simon Weir mistakenly referred to the modification of the HDMI cable as UHD 2, created specifically for eARC. In fact, we are talking about an Ultra-high-speed HDMI cable, called UHS, which has Generation issue No. 1 and No.2. So, the Gen No.2, was created specifically for eARC. Therefore, Simon Weir’s mistake is that he wrote UHD 2, but he should have written UHS 2, then everything becomes logical and understandable. I have only one question left – which of the brands, manufacturers is the leader in the production of HDMI cables in order to purchase a decent quality cable?
Indeed, my assumption was that UHS 2 was the intention – I’m not aware of anything such as UHD 2 or whatever it even means.
But it’s pretty clear, a certified Ultra High Speed cable is all you need. My installer put in the cables for me, so I cant remember the brand – but the idea of the the certification is that anything with that certification will be fine. I wouldn’t over think which brand to get to be honest.
You just need an HDMI cable that is certified as Ultra High Speed.
https://hdmi.org/spec21sub/ultrahighspeedcable
Убедитесь, что ваш кабель HDMI поддерживает UHD-2 (UHD II) (высокоскоростное подключение по Ethernet, разработанное для eARC), чего не делают все кабели спецификации 2.1.
Good evening!
Tell me the full name of the HDMI UHD II eARC cables to find purchase offers from trusted manufacturers. I could not find cables with such an abbreviation UHD II. I would be very grateful to you.
I’ve never heard of UHD-2.
Probably explains why you cant find any cables with that name.
What are you trying to connect?
Yes – if you watch a Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos movie (on Netflix for example) using the native app, the panel seems to recognise that, display both in the top right corner, and switch to Cinema / Cinema Home picture mode.
For the same content when output from the ATV Netflix app, the audio is in PCM – that’s how the ATV works – as opposed to the LG Netflix app, which will bitstream the audio. Try both again, and look at the B&O app Signal Info page, and it’s clear.
As for the chroma issue, my ATV is connected to the Theatre, and I get 4:4:4. It might be worth, if you havent already, get the ATV to check the HDMI connection – there’s a menu setting to do that. The Chroma settings page mentions needing a high speed cable to get 4:4:4, whatever that means.
Your BL18s have a few connection ports, and can be shared between a TV (into one of the connection ports) and a music source (a different connection port on the 18s).
The 18s have a built in input priority hierarchy, with wired power link at the top of the list. I think its RCA input is next in the hierarchy, and then Toslink is last.
So a Core connected via optical to the BL18s will play music through the 18s without waking up / needing the TV. If you turn the TV on, the 18s will switch to that input.
(not sure what TV you have, and how is it currently communicating with your BL18s?)
Hi! Does anyone know to set a default sound profile specifically for airplay?
Hmm, it used to be the case that Settings/Source Startup Behaviour allowed users to assign a default profile for both Chromecast and Airplay.
Now that the app route is called Settings/Sources, I can no longer find that option to assign profiles..
Hi Guys Just Purchased the latest Apple TV to use with a beosound Theatre and was wondering if there are any specific settings I should be using as I’m new to the 4K game. Also when I had the theatre installed a puc cable was run to my comms cab, I take it this can be used so I can control the Apple TV with the beoremote?
When you are connected, there are some settings choices to be made on the ATV itself (I’m assuming you have an Apple TV 4K).
I’ve followed what seems to be the general best advice on this : in the Apple TV, go to Settings app / Video and Audio /…..and here you want to set the Format to be 4k SDR (not HDR), and the Match Content options to be On for both Match Dynamic Range and Match Frame Rate.
Well whatever you do guys. Don’t factory reset your theatre in the latest software version. This problem wasn’t present on my theatre. Untill I got some problems with my Beolab 28’s room compensation. After some testing I decided to factory reset everything just to begin from scratch again. Seems after the factory reset the theatre indeed has a bug in DD 5.1 content. Everything else is fine. Need to crank up the volume with DD 5.1 content to like 60 to be audible and the channels are quite mixed up and it just doesn’t sound right. However Atmos DD+ of PCM2.0 up mix all sounds good with lower sound levels. However before the factory reset I didn’t have any of these problems with version 3.2.1 / 3. Quite strange and really buggy software in my opinion. I’ve asked my dealer for a downgrade on both the beolabs 28’s and theatre to atleast 2.5.5. I would like to know how to do this myself aswell if there is an option for this?
yes, and you are not alone, as a number of people have reported the horrible sound image with DD 5.1. It’s been reported to B&O. I got my Theatres rolled back to 2.5.5, and all is well again with DD 5.1.
One of the B&O guys posted the below on Discord about this issue :
“The issue with DD5.1 volume being low is something that is actually not a SW bug but rather a decision made by acoustics to remove the dB boost in order to have proper sounding PCM 2.0 upmixing. In the upcoming 3.4 release we plan to give you the option to manually adjust these dB levels so you can tailor it to your needs. As already written elsewhere, I will let you know when this is available for testing.”
(me again) – this is kind of what I expected. In 3.2.1 they fixed the pre-existing issue with PCM 2.0, but in doing so badly compromised DD 5.1. Whether the options they are proposing in 3.4 mentioned above will bring DD 5.1 back properly remains to be seen, but let’s see.
Its puzzling that we’ve gone from an audio engine (on BV’s leading up to the Theatre) which could happily handle 2.0 / 5.1 / 7.1 without the user thinking about it, to a situation now (Theatre) where after a year the audio engine can’t do all of 2.0/5.1/7.1 properly.
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