Combining beosound theatre with one beolab 8

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Hi there, I have a beosound theatre and am totally blown away by the movie performance of it. Listening to audio/stereo is good as well, but I'm missing the wide stereo experience of 2 separate speakers. Since I don't have many opportunities to place speakers and don't want to see that much of speakers around, I was thinking of adding one single beolab 8 speaker wirelessly to the theatre, using that as left stereo speaker, using the theatre as right stereo speaker. Only for music. I could create a sound profile where - when listening to mainly airplay - the theatre for instance only uses its front right speakers. Since the sound signature of both speakers is similar, I thought of that as a potential option to not have 2 additional speakers, but just one. The Theatre only uses 1 tweeter, 1 midrange and 1 woofer, same goes then for the beolab 8. I know it's a creative option but am wondering what it results in when I change the volume while listing in stereo; would one speaker sound louder (different spl/db), can I simply change the balance when I'm sitting nearer the beolab 8? Any thoughts are very appreciated.
Hi @Lavie, thanks for the nice comments about the Theatre. I'm afraid that your plan for an "asymmetrical" setup won't work for "real" stereo listening, since the Beolab 8 and one of the outputs of the Theatre are not a matched pair of loudspeakers. Although the two are designed to work together in a surround system (e.g. Theatre in the front and Beolab 8s as surrounds), they are certainly not matched enough to produce a reliable phantom centre or good imaging.
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How about a "pair" of Theatres? I know that this isn't practical, but I'm curious if the software could handle this. (Hopefully this question isn't too off-topic) Glitch
Hi Geoff, thanks a ton for your answer. I hoped to receive an answer from you as well. And so it happened. Super quickly. Truly appreciated, and absolute brand ambassador worthy. I will save myself the money of buying a single beolab 8, to ultimately get a sub-optimal sound. Perhaps I need to verify again what the possibilities are to place 2 beolabs 8 somewhere. I adore their sound, design and combo of aluminium with the oak, with the beolab's 28 circular display on top. They sound amazing. Terrific job done. Enjoy your day. And I hope you will find that Ferrari one day!
Actually, my question was more like towing one car behind another ;-). Something like this but with Theatres ;-) The towing situation is possible for some car combinations, but not for others. Glitch
Hi, I've been thinking about analogies for a system with a Beolab 8 on the left and a Theatre on the Right. The best ones I can come up with is wearing a pair of sunglasses where only one of the two lenses is tinted. Or driving a car with 15" wheels on the left side and 16" wheels on the right, maybe... and no - you currently can't have two Theatres playing in sync in a multichannel (i.e. one-room) system. Cheers -geoff
PLEASE READ before sending me a Personal Message. If you have questions about or problems with B&O equipment, these should be directed through your dealer and/or B&O's Customer Service department. I cannot be a "short circuit", bypassing these communication channels. Thanks -geoff
You could use airplay and technically they will be fully in sync :-)

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