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Elephant Thank you for the picture! What a stylish combination - the V1 with the A8 Airplay niceeeeee
I'm now on my 4th due to pint issues. Now swapping to white as they still have the issue just less visible
Nobackup:I'm now on my 4th due to pint issues. Now swapping to white as they still have the issue just less visible
Beolab 50, Beolab 8000 x 2, Beolab 4000 x 2, BeoSound Core, BeoSound 9000, BeoSound Century, BeoLit 15, BeoPlay A1, BeoPlay P2, BeoPlay H9 3rd Gen, BeoPlay H6, EarSet 3i, BeoVision Eclipse Gen 2 55", BeoPlay V1-40, BeoCom 6000 and so much else :)
That review makes me lust after it! This should be purchased as the first thing if I get a job during my study!
20.000 DKK is a hefty price tag though; could just buy a good 40 inch Samsung for the half of that and use my Beosystem 8000 as front speakers - But the V1 design is great.
Vinyl records, cassettes, open reel, valve amplifiers and film photography.
Hi Geoff, thank your for your suggestion and sorry for the late feedback.
You are correct, this is the best and fastest way to compare sound settings.
I have another question for you.
My old setup consisted of a Beovision 3 and a pair of BL8000. On it's own, the BV3 was simply spectacular in the sound department. In a surround setup the center channel was present with a sound that I would describe as "warm" or "rich" or "full". This terminology is probably far from specific but if you can remember how the BV3 sounded and compare that with the V1, you will know what I am talking about.
I replaced the BV3 with the V1 and added a BL 11 hoping it would make up for the BV3 and to add a little punch.
It does add punch at the very low end (when watching movies with lots of explosions and car chases and trains passing by ...) but it does not make up to the BV3's "warm" sound. Something is missing and this is particularly noticable at the level of speech. In simple terms: speech sounds like it's coming from a tin can.
So far I have been unable to adjust this through the sound settings and I'm not sure if this can be solved in any way. Then again, there are a lot of sound settings and I'm no engineer.
Do you have any suggestions in this area?
I encourage you to download the "Technical Sound Guide" from BeoPlay.com/support and going through the 25 pages, point by point. It has been brought up a few times on BeoWorld. I found it educational and helpful, once I started following along. There are a myriad of settings you can try from speaker setup and sound parameters and, while not overwhelming, it does open up a wide range of alternatives for getting the sound you desire.
Have not figured if you can actually turn off the tv speakers.
Just read another positive review of the v1 i don't know how too add links but the site i read it on was hardware.no use google translate to read the review.
Beoplay A2
symmes: I encourage you to download the "Technical Sound Guide" from BeoPlay.com/support and going through the 25 pages, point by point. It has been brought up a few times on BeoWorld. I found it educational and helpful, once I started following along. There are a myriad of settings you can try from speaker setup and sound parameters and, while not overwhelming, it does open up a wide range of alternatives for getting the sound you desire. Have not figured if you can actually turn off the tv speakers.
Thanks symmes, I am aware of this manual and have been playing with the settings but without the result I want.
As for turning off the tv speakers, you can. On previous models you had something like SPEAKER-1/2/3/5 for TV only/external stereo/3.1/5.1. This is called Speaker Groups in the V1 but you are able to define which speaker does what. By default there is only 1 group defined (V1 in STEREO). If you add speakers, you need to add them to the Speaker Group. You then assign a role to each speaker (front left, center, rear ...).
In my case only 1 speaker group was originally defined in a 3.1 setup (V1 speaker + 1 pair external speakers + SUB). So my Speaker Group contains 5 speakers. In the Speaker Roles FRONT LEFT and FRONT RIGHT is assigned to the two external speakers, CENTER is assigned to BOTH V1 speakers, SUBWOOFER is assigned to the sub. You can however assign nothing to a certain speaker in which case it will be turned off.
I have added several groups afterwards:
You can then switch between them using SPEAKER+1-6. The possibilities are endless.
This is also the best way to test changes that you make to sound settings. If you want to compare the impact of a change, simply create an additional Speaker Group with the same sound settings, then make the changes you want to the group you created and you can then quickly switch back and forward between the original group and the new group (using SPEAKER+#).
There is another thing that I have not figured out. Although you can define per INPUT channel which AUDIO MODE (movie, music, game, etc.) the channel should use, I have not figured out how to define which SPEAKER GROUP an AUDIO MODE should use. In my case, it would be nice if you could dynamically assign SPEAKER GROUP 4 to AUDIO MODE 'Music' and SPEAKER GROUP 6 to AUDIO MODE 'Movie' and so on ... Now you have to change the audio mode and then change the speaker group manually
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@Hero71. Very informative response and well said. Thanks.
Hero71: There is another thing that I have not figured out. Although you can define per INPUT channel which AUDIO MODE (movie, music, game, etc.) the channel should use, I have not figured out how to define which SPEAKER GROUP an AUDIO MODE should use. In my case, it would be nice if you could dynamically assign SPEAKER GROUP 4 to AUDIO MODE 'Music' and SPEAKER GROUP 6 to AUDIO MODE 'Movie' and so on ... Now you have to change the audio mode and then change the speaker group manually H.
I have found that you can define a speaker group for the RADIO source (in the Advanced Settings there is a Speaker Group option). This option does not appear in any of the other sources (TV, HDMIx, ...).