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BRONZE MemberNow I have ordered a Beosound Theater and a pair of Beolab 18. Gold and wood on both.
Congrats on your purchase. I’ve had 18’s for 6 years and I use them every day and they are amazing. My personal opinion though is that they are a bit under-utilized as rears speakers unless you have a big room. It might make sense to use them as front LR and then get some older used BL3000’s or something like it as rears. Thats the setup is what I have now minus the theatre which is on order.
Also the BL18’s don’t have much bass as good as they are. Hopefully the combo with the theatre it will be enough especially for movies.
Location: Toronto, CanadaI have a feeling we will hit a dead end with support as the Halo’s battery life is rated at 24h on paper.
Location: Toronto, CanadaI just got this thing and Im shocked at the. horrible battery. Day and a half of light use. Whats sucking up all the power? is it the proximity sensor?
Location: Toronto, CanadaI did. Seems to work ok. As far as Halo’s go that is.
Location: Toronto, CanadaThanks guys,
Im finding them on eBay. Are the differences in the MKII’s themselves?
mkII Type 287
MKII d898
Location: Toronto, CanadaThanks guys, interesting.
If I am using PL Mark 3 (Beolab 3000) to the current power link is there any loss of the dual signals in that setup?
Also for the BL18’s. Do I just use good quality Cat7 cables? I believe I can daisy chain them together and then to the theatre as well.
Sorry for rookie questions I’ve never had a B&O sound system just the speakers for 20 years but hooked up though RCA to a 3rd party pre-amp.
Location: Toronto, CanadaThanks Steve. So currently I have separate cables running to each speaker but it sounds like I need to combine them into pairs if I want to also plug in a sub correct?
Location: Toronto, CanadaThe one thing I am not understanding is the ports to plug in your speakers. There are 4 ports but they are stereo inputs making it 8?
How will that work if I have 2 BL18’s and 2 BL3000 and a subwoofer to plug in? Do the fronts and rears each daisy chain together and then I plug in one cable for the pair?
Location: Toronto, CanadaMy dealer is telling my the 65″ version with the motorized stand is due in Nov. Gonna be a long wait 😀
My G2 is arriving today though and gonna sit in the box for a while 🙁
Location: Toronto, CanadaMy god the Halo was updated for compatibility with the theatre but it can only control music functions. I wonder if volume control while watching TV is even an option.
Location: Toronto, CanadaI wonder is since I have a small room it makes sense to tell both the BL18 and the side firing speakers to be the front L&R. Or maybe that will just muddy the sound. I think it’s going to take a lot of experimenting to see how it bounces off the walls.
I look forward to the up firing ones to see how well they work as virtual highs.
Since the BL18’s will be about 1M from the edge of the TV does anyone have any suggestions as to the best use of the theatre speakers would be?
Location: Toronto, CanadaI have a question about the software and how the Theatre will handle it. I can’t find any documentation of course to help me solve this.
Basically my setup is 5.1.
I have 2 BL18’s as front left and right and BL3 as rear left and right and a 3rd party Sub.
So how do I set the Theatre to fill in the gaps?
Even more importantly since I am using the 18’s as front L, R than what do the speakers in the theatre that normally handle that end up doing? Do they just shut off or do they automatically take on another role?
Can I manually set any one of the theatre speakers to any role? Like the wides can act as the centre as well?
Location: Toronto, CanadaDoes anyone understand this point in the instal video the floor stand video at 4:10.
This cardboard thing you align the VESA mount to. Is it saying you should push the VESA mount down to touch the cardboard or keep it 9.5mm above it? is this the hight the TV will float above the Theatre?
Location: Toronto, CanadaFrom what my dealer told me the only TV’s that are officially able to control the theatre and vice versa are the few LG’s listed under compatibility on the FAQ page.
Other TV won’t have a connection port option.
If you want to control the interface of your TV you have you use the TV’s remote and not a B&O remote or app.
Im GUESSING though that with HDMI control turned on though you can easily tell your TV to turn on when you turn on the theatre. But like most people that’s not important to me as I use AppleTV for everything.
Location: Toronto, CanadaIt’s funny that there (with one or two exceptions) was no mentioning of a required ethernet connection between tv and soundcenter, as we know it from the previous LG-based Beovisions in the new install videos. Or was what we saw not LG-tv’s, but another brand, just a generic tv? We still need to know how the unit (including the LG-tv functions) is controlled with a Beoremote One. MM
The video is marked “generic” but you can see that they used a LG C2 and matching VESA mount.
Location: Toronto, CanadaMy question is in the same way. Is there a solution to attach the Beosound Theatre to the Floorstand Beovision 7-55? For my seeing position the official floorstand is unfortunately too low and the solution of STB isn‘t a match for me. Thomas
Here are all the install videos
Location: Toronto, CanadaIt wasn’t cheap but the theatre is exactly what I wanted from them for many years. I will be ordering the Oak version along with the motorized stand and I’m going to mount my Sony OLED on it.
Im pairing it with BL18’s for front left and right and BL3 for the rears. For now I’m using a 3rd party sub but in the future ill probably get the 19.
Just a note apparently if you don’t have an LG Gx it doesn’t come with the back beauty mount leaving it looking more exposed on the back.
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