hi,

 

I am about to up-grade my speakers: I would buy tomorrow a pair of Beolab 1 speakers (black with black frets) that will replace my Beolab8000(Alu version). I would like to know if this is a good ideea(Lab 8000 replaced by Lab1)? What are your thoughts about the black color vs.silver?

many thanks,

constantine

Hi,

This topic has been debated several times on beoworld and can spark a lot of different opinions.

I think the BL1 is far superior to the BL8000 sound-wise. The only drawback of the BL1 is that you might expect a better performance in the low end, but this is not perfect (but much better compared to the BL8000). Adding a BL2 solves this and makes a lovely setup.

Design and color is very personal; I like the black version, when I bought my BL1 the only options I considered were silver and black, which I think are both very nice looking.  

Go for it, you wont regret it!

Bieele 

I'd say go for it as well, although you'll probably find yourself wanting a BeoLab 2 to go with them, they don't produce as much bass as you'd expect...

I concur with the others.  The BeoLab 1 is a supeb loudspeakers, consideably better than the BL8000.  Personally, I love its appearance.  Any color will do for me.  

I would echo the sentiments expressed here, the Beolab 1s are wonderful but depending on your taste, may need the Beolab 2. We had ours connected to an Avant and Beosound 3000 along with a 12 inch Velodyne sub and the sound was wonderful.

The sound is, in my opinion, a very detailed sound. In some ways I notice the detail and clarity even more now that we are using the 1s as rear speakers in a surround sound setup. We hear sounds from the rear we never heard from the 6000s we previously had in the rear. 

hi everyone, 

Many thanks to everyone for your input!

I've just installed the speakers !I really love the black color, it is not so 'catch eye' like the ALU version.

Thanks again for your thoughts!

Constantine

another one

If I squint and shake my head back and forth really fast your setup looks great