Dual Beolab 2's?

I happen to have two Beolab 2's at the moment.

Has anyone tried to run two of these beast in a surround setup? Does it make channel-separation in the bass and improve the sound, or is it just overkill?

plug your bl into one at front and one at rear/surround and you will see what it adds.

 i have bl5 at front and added one for rear/surround. If your room is deep enough you will see the difference

it is not day and night but it is a +.

 

 

Oh.. I thought it would be use as left and right in front.

sorry then my answer for your case : that's useless. put one at the center and you will have same result 

The whole thing gets a bit more confusing in the 5.1/7/1 world, where all the bass is routed to one sub channel, as opposed to using one for audio in a L and R configuration. There are some advantages to using two subs, perhaps the most significant is being able to excite the room modes (standing waves, nulls, etc.) from two different room locations. Careful attention to placement can smooth out the peaks and valleys in bass response in the room and offer significant improvement in sound at multiple positions especially. Or even at one position if there's a huge null, say, at your listening seat.

Whether or not stereo bass is audible is more subtle I think. I've seen arguments that, due to the small distance between the human ears, and the very long wavelengths of bass notes, the ear is not able to hear stereo bass. Some argue the opposite. Personally, I believe the former, and think the prime advantage is smoothing out bass response.