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Dear members,
on Beocentral it says that the first version of the Beolab 8000s was a three way design and supposed to sound better than the later versions. Is there anything to that?
Rgds,
Kai
The first version had different crossover networks for the two woofers, so I guess you can call it three-way - but not a three-way active speaker in the strictest sense, as the woofers shared the same amplifier output.
Later they were modified to have the same signal into both woofers, but ABL was added just as Beocentral says. Some people will prefer the former version, some the later.
Along the years, there were other small changes in the tweeter protection circuitry in particular, but that shouldn't affect the sound at all.
--mika
So it's not the case that one has a clear advantage over the other. Are there any audible differences at all?
That's brand new information !
I suppose it would have employed a 2 1/2 way configuration like many speakers of it's kinda. Like one cone handling from the bass all the way up and the other handling only bass. This will totally prevent the lobing effect when you have two midrange units working in tandem but yet boost the bass with double the cone area but yet have the coherence like a 2 way much like the speakers in Wilson Benesch and Sonus Faber. I highly doubt it was originally a 3 way because that will totally not make sense to have the same driver for 2 distinct frequency ranges. If they do then it will be due to a serious cost cutting of some kind.