Same for me, I've been waiting for this ICE Power update on BL8000 and 6000 for ages, and still nothing out..
To me it would bring lots of improvements to these column speakers:
- the amps would take much less space, which would allow more space for another woofer for bass (making it a 3-way rather than 2-way speaker)
- even without going that far, the space saved for the bass port would allow more cabinet volume, and give better bass anyway, see the Lab 7-1 which has roughly the same shape & dimensions as BL8000, the 7-1 goes down to 37 Hz with a 4 liter bass cabinet volume, while BL8000 has 5.3 liters already, all that B&O has to do it make the 8000 a 3-way system, with the lower woofer dedicated to bass.
- since BeoLab 1 was replaced by BeoLab 9, there is a huge gap between the Lab 8000/3 (going down to 50 Hz), and the Lab 9 (going down to 30 Hz), with this upgrade the 8000 could easily go down to 40 Hz with proper correction/ABL setting (the current one goes down to 40 Hz at -8dB)
- the production costs could be reduced, by using the same ICE amps as for the Lab 7 & 3 range (125 W per channel).
- the power consumption would finally go back to today's standards
- so why does it take so long to boost those aging speakers?
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