Next generation B&O speaker tech...

Seems like Geoff has lifted of the lid on some tech concerning the BeoLab 5 successor

What is “Beam Width Control”?

http://www.tonmeister.ca/wordpress/2015/06/30/bo-tech-what-is-beam-width-control/

 

Active Room Compensation

http://www.tonmeister.ca/wordpress/2015/06/30/bo-tech-active-room-compensation/

 

 

 

Thanks Karel.

Therefore the use of a tablet to measure the sweet spot and getting to this 360° Sound experience.

kuyttendaele:

What is “Beam Width Control”?

What ever it is ... be careful the beams don't cross

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=don't+cross+the+streams&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=F2yTVcrtDobGmAXvlIzYCg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=460&dpr=2#imgrc=qi-AZj3aauZ8dM%3A

kuyttendaele:

Seems like Geoff has lifted of the lid on some tech concerning the BeoLab 5 successor

What is “Beam Width Control”?

Maybe it's somewhere identical to the IntelliBeam technology from Yamaha which they're using since a few years in their digital sound projector speakers - which sounds amazing by the way!
I've heard one of their 1st speakers with this technology a few years ago, the YSP-1000 and I had to ask twice during the presentation if there really wheren't any additional speakers connected.

 

Probably a much more sophisticated and DSP controlled precise version of the old Bessel array which is used a fair amount in PA and such systems. Using multiple drivers covering the same freq range a Bessel array can create a very narrow and controlled beam even with a large number of drivers, by wiring them in and out of phase in a pattern. Yamaha took this further, as noted, and did a fine job with it.