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I don’t know about the cables but people say the new Core sounds MUCH better than the Essence.  Personally I say hook them up to a theatre 😉

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brian.lillo wrote:

I do find that assigning the Centre speaker role to the Theatre’s Left Front-firing, Centre Front-firing and Right Front-Firing speakers provides a better center channel experience in my room.  With those 8 speakers assigned to the Centre role, I find the sound to be more impactful and voices are clearer when watching movies.

I my case this made things sound very strange as it creates a very wide centre. Voice don’t sound like they are coming from the source on the TV but instead the whole front of the room. This will really depend on how big your room is and how far away you sit from it however. So best to experiment in your own placement to see what works best.

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Honestly if you have a Theatre + BL28 and BL8’s I seriously doubt you need any sub at all. But I agree if you do then get the Beolab 2. You can connect it wired to the theatre or even get a wireless adapter for it.

I would start with no sub and if that setup isn’t cutting it get the BL2.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-09M173rT8

Dark photos but I think those are H7 headphones and Beolab 6000 with some 3rd party wood covers,

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It’s not that the BL8’s sound better than the theatre. It’s just the theatre sounds better if you made the stage wider with really any B&O Speakers.  It’s easy to think the front LR speakers are just making the stage “wider” but its really just adding more of an immersive environment over all.

So really what people are recommending is that with your current setup the 8s in the back will make things sound more immersive but adding anything to the front of the theatre would also help a lot.

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I have a similar setup and I recommend the above OR get some older B&O speakers like the BL3 or BL12.3 to use as rears.  The 8’s are amazing but they won’t be used to their full potential as a rear so its a slight waste.

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I still have it on my iPad but no products load. It is also gone in the north American store so yes I would assume it’s dead.

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Seems like everyone biggest complaint (other than the offensive price) is the not so great battery life.  So anyone testing them out at a dealer keep in mind how long you might have to use them in one stretch before they need charging.

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“”including designing the products, manufacturing them, and even handling the shipping and customer service.”
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1768912998

Sony’s TV designs are dead.  I for sure never want a Chinese brand to touch B&O as I never relate that countries products to design or quality.

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If you care about quality you should never use bluetooth for audio to start.  Use Airplay and Apple Music or physical source.  Also Samsung and “quality” are rarely used in the same sentence 😉

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The “New” prices might be comparable to products of old, I think the problem is they launched much cheaper and we watched the price climb over a couple years for the same product. It wasn’t the costs got that much higher for B&O to build. They were testing how much they can charge and still sell stuff. Also the colour variations are highway robbery.

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I love the 18’s they are my fave B&O product ever. But they were also dumb speakers and I think B&O wants to move to all Mozart based products.  From my understanding the BL8’s sound just as good if not better than the 18’s but personally I think the 18’s looked much better.  Sorry to see them go.

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He was a terrible CEO and I’m relieved they fired him. The price increases were totally offensive to long time customers and they totally wasted the 100 year anniversary.  Here is hoping the new CEO knows that B&O long time customers are important.

 

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What exactly does it do? No instal or get stuck at a launch screen?

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All versions including the new 7.4.0 beta work on my Mac mini M4 And Mac Studio M1 Max.

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I think that would be a huge upgrade. from what I hear so far people love it.

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Do you have an iOS device you can try airplaying it from?

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where is it playing from?

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It works fine for me on my M1 Max Studio and my M4 Mini. Maybe look to see if it hid some preference on your Mac which can linger even if you delete the app itself.

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There is no Mac app. Anyone with a M1 or higher Mac can install the iPad version on their Mac.

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