Beolab 4000's

I'm trying to watch the a Directors cut of Alien, and unfortunately after 15 minutes of woeful sound I'm trying to find a budget way out of not loosing my mind. I have found a pair of 4000's locally going cheap, and I could always use them as rears in the future so all is not lost. Still resent deeply having to do it but ho hum.

I know they aren't the biggest performer in the world, but would they go anywhere near to helping with my eternal and daily bass problem? I'd use them as front speakers with the 11-46 to begin with.

Thanks in advance.

HI Chris,

Did you select speaker 5 ? Even with only 2.1 surround, the sound is very improved.From a bluray you are then in dts instead of pcm.

You could add a sub. As I wasn't satisfied by the beolab 2, I bought a kef HTB2 and it works perfectly with my bv 7.40. Bought from ebay UK for only 250 euros delivered !

Soon, I will use the bl14 sub instead of the kef or maybe I will use both.

I'm using the "drama" setting, as the "movie" setting has a lot of stuff turned down in an attempt to negate the bass distortion.

I tried a Beolab 2 but it didn't seem to help much, although that might have been my installation. Would the 4000's help that's the question?

4000s are excellent speakers - wall mount them and they have plenty of bass. I use a pair as fronts with an Avant and another pair as rears with my BV5 where they wasted really. Take a trip around Struer and you will find them all over the place.

The problem I had with a BV10 was not bass, which a BL2 sorted, but presence - the upper bass. Tweaked it all ways and always sounded thin. The BV5 is much much better. I thought the BV11 was supposed to be better. I guess you should try a BV11 as that is supposed to add exactly the sound I found missing.

Thanks Peter, that's good enough for me then.

We spoil ourselves occasionally when visiting the dreaded mother in law who I bought an Avant for. That's what a Beovision should sound like.

The Beovision 11 is better than the 10 up to a point. The 10 had limits and stuck to them ie no distortion.

The 11 being a flat screen obviously has a limit as to the amount of air it can move, but in certain scenes where deep bass is required, it distorts terribly. I have confirmed this is an 11 problem not just my 11, as the same distortion from the same BluRay was reproduced by a set in store.

Anyway I have turned off the film as I just cannot be bothered with adjusting the volume all the time.

I thought you'd swapped the BV11 for a BV7.

Trying

Hi Chris, if you add BeoLab 4000's there will be more sound, but according to the Technical Sound Guide, the sound processor will route the bass to the speakers most capable of reproducing bass. With BeoLab 4000's, I am sure the sound processor will still route the bass to the BeoVision 11 - so you will almost certainly not change the issue you have when playing bass sounds loudly. You would be better off with a speaker that would get the bass sent to it - i.e. BeoLab 11.

Or tell it that you have attached something else!!