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Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

Alex — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:04:46 GMT

Music is (98% of the time) recorded in stereo, and hence should be played in stereo. Speaker 3 is effectively trying to force the BeoVision to extract information out of the recording which simply isn't there - confused, often 'brittle' sound.

Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

Mr10Percent — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:15:04 GMT

Why dont you simply let the BV7 make all the decisions?

Set the audio sound option to 2.0 - which will play via the BL9's

Set the video sound option to 3.0 - which will play via the BL7.4 and BL9's.

Then as the signal changes depending on the quality (news/mono, movie/stereo, DVD/Dolby3), the BV7 will automatically adjust.

Nothing will be lost and nothing will "cut-in" inappropriately.

10%

Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

Jandyt — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:16:33 GMT

Hey Taktak, you need some rears then watch movies in 5.1 and listen to music and watch TV in speaker 4.

Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

Seanie_230 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:55:14 GMT

Hi I have pretty much the same setup BV7 + BL-4 + BL8000's + BL6000's + BL2

For TV i use speaker 3 which gives me front and BL4 + BL2

and for music i use Speaker 2 giving me the 8000's + BL2

if im having a party i use speaker 4 for music,

i think music sounds terrible on speaker 3,

Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

moxxey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:56:22 GMT

takktakk:
I own a BV 40-7 with the BL 7-4 and BL 9 on the sides. When watching movies it is obvious for me to use all three speakers, but when listening to music i only use the BL 9's.

Good point. I've played a few audio CDs via the same setup and they always sound way too 'bright' for me compared to my Beosound 4 + BL3. That offers a more rounded audio experience, which I prefer. I'm now wondering if it's the addition of the 7.4 which makes the audio sound so bright. I might try this later.

Re: Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

Coolskin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:34:43 GMT

In our setup the BL7.1 is on when watching TV

The Beolab 4000 in each corner 1 speaker is on (+ BL2) when radio or similar audio is on.

When we watch DVD I have to set the speaker setup manually to 5 speakers.

Two or three speakers when watching ordinary TV

takktakk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:37:57 GMT

Hi all.

I own a BV 40-7 with the BL 7-4 and BL 9 on the sides. When watching movies it is obvious for me to use all three speakers, but when listening to music i only use the BL 9's. I am curious what people with similar setups do when they (you) watch TV?

I get that the vocal audio from the 7-4 is superior, but isn't that mostly when the signal is made up to go through it (movies)? If I am on all three speakers during a TV broadcast, doesn't that pretty much mean that I am channeling a stereo signal into a mono speaker, as the BL 9's dont contribute significantly to TV shows at that setting? When switching a TV broadcast to two speaker mode the general audio image is somewhat lifted I think, but the vocal strenghts of the BL 7-4 are of course then lost.

How should I play the game?