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Oh my god they finally updated the icon. Work in progress as its a bit of a trick to get it working.
Great thanks, and it’s also aware if you have stand or not! Looks a lot better now in my app.
Thanks for all the support over the years, I think there must be some group (or individual) who can keep the site and forum up and running?
Maybe good to put up some general info, like running costs and number of paying members?I have a pair of 18s connect to my BST as front left and right,and I set my BST front left and front right speaker as “subwoofer center” in b&o app and other BST drivers as “none”,but when playing music there’s no bass from my theatre,”true image” is on,is there anything wrong i done above?
Did you turn off room compensation to test if that is doing anything?
If you take the pull and rotate bracket from STB (https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/en-GB/product/Beosound-Theatre/Close-Wall-Bracket-Beosound-Theatre) you can easily hide your AppleTV behind the TV with their Decoder mount (https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/en-GB/product/Beosound-Theatre/Decoder-mount-Beosound-Theatre).
As I read their website, you even don’t need their wall bracket to use the mount. However if you will use the LG wall mount there is not enough space to put it in between.
Just remember that the STB bracket will not be flush wall mount, it will put the TV exactly in the centre of the Theatre, and the wall bracket also has some extra space, I used it and thats my only concern that i could be closer to the wall but still very nice solution. Also when you need to ‘do’ something with cables or whatever, its very easy to pull it and you have all the access.
Yes, thats a great suggestion, I will try that one day with my BL19. As it’s connected with wisa its quite easy to move it to a different location and just add a new listening position. In terms of practicality it will not be able to stay in the back of my room but I will do it to see what kind of effect it might have.
Nice setup, I would also need to put them inside a cabinet as you have, not sure if that cabinet acts as a resonator for the sound? Or is room adaption able to work out that problem?
How’s your experience so far, comparing just the theatre and now added the BL8’s? Did you set the theatre itself to C/C/C or L/C/R ? Or what you think about it?
Thank you again, made me understand the room sense a bit better now.
The initial measurement that is ‘pushed’ to make a listening position might be confusing because the flow of the process is somewhat different. It would make (more) sense to have the BST play a beep and the user defines the speaker position on the app(since BST can’t really tell if sound is coming from above or more Left Front rather than Lift Side for instance). Then next step you would do the sweep for the actual speaker role rather then redoing it.
I will recalibrate to make sure, and to have the test of calibrating with the new beta.
When al speakers are positioned and angled properly it should only require 2 calibration positions, a sweet spot(perfect middle) and an off center lounge corner to watch TV.
Does it make a difference if you calibrate with narrow or wide beam width? I would expect the sound being reflected different with or without the sideways mounted drivers being used, or does the BL28 not use the side mounted drivers during calibration (either direct or through BST)?
This feels like a rabbit hole, keep digging deeper the more you know ;D
For the beam width control, I don’t know about that, I hope others can Chime in.
For the sweet spot and social spots it’s recommended to set different speaker roles. For the social spot, turn off the virtual speakers as these won’t work very well when not sitting in the sweet spot. Good luck with playing around :), the technical sound guide is a very good reference guide learn more about how to set it up.
Thanks for the reply, I think I understand that the BST will not automatically assign double speaker roles to two different drivers. But this can be done manually if desired Would the BST calculate the timing of the back speaker role assigned to the side firing speakers instead of putting physical satellites (BL8 or BL28 or BL17) in the back? To clarify: You calibrate a position and the mic measures the room. Then after you assign the back channel (not surround) to the side firing to have it reflect from side walls. Will this result in a timed output to reach the position and experience a virtual back sound? As for the suggestion it’s quite simple: relocating the mic port to the base of the BST to have free access not to break the delicate knobs on the back of the cover that you push into the rubber fittings in the soundbar itself.
I’m not entirely sure what you want to achieve but first you assign the speaker roles the way you want them to be. Then you will do the room compensation sweep.
The initial room sense is only there for the BST to give a default speaker role according to its ‘recognition model’. The way the room comp works is that the BST remembers the room reflection, or better; room mode, for each individual speaker, not the role. So the role is secondary and the room compensation filter will be applied at speaker level. Within the positions you can change the speaker role to whatever you want and the room comp will make the necessary adjustments.
So if you assign back speaker role to the side firing outputs, it will make a timed output for you.If you change any location or add any actual speakers, or make changes to your interior then you will need to redo the room compensation.
Yes for a bedroom it would be perfect. Regarding surround/atmos, the stage doesn’t have any side firing woofers but have 2 small up firing woofers. It’s a 3.0 setup basically which is able to downmix Atmos content and play it. So don’t expect too much from any atmos effect. If you really need that you need to go for the Theatre or some other brand’s soundbar which are better at that. The sound is still coming from the front, but especially in a smaller room like a bedroom the stage is really nice to have. And the looks are important too 🙂
My parents have a Contour in their bedroom and it’s perfect. Integration with BR1 and LG works very nice, no problems there.
The remote is paired with the stage and managing the LG from there through eARC.
If it would be for the living room, you really need to know that you lose all upgradeability with a Contour in terms of additional speakers. The price difference between a Theatre and Contour is quite big but I would really consider it. For the bedroom I wouldn’t need extra speakers but in a living it can be that you don’t want extra speakers now, but maybe in 3/4 years time.
The Contour uses the stage soundbar integrated in a nice frame together with a LG screen. Nothing wrong it, actually it looks amazing but you need to accept the implications 🙂
As I understood they implemented a fix for the 2.0 PCM sound not being properly upmixed. I noticed a huge difference when watching 2.0 content with this update, its sound a lot better! Before it sounded like all sound was coming from a center speaker with no bass.
I also notice difference in volume I have to make for that kind of content… Can’t apply a default to it, as some content on netflix is in 2.0 en others is in dolby. So I guess they still need to fine tune the algoritm a bit.. Maybe @geoff can elaborate a bit on this.
That’s exactly what they have done. Only they decided to stick to a specific brand LG in order to make the integration part flawless. (Which is a very important point many people seems to be missing out on). Many dealers will quote you all the parts seperately, LG tv, soundcenter etc. so you see exactly what you are paying ‘just for the TV’ itself and the speakers etc.
