Bang & Olufsen has launched its smallest Beolab speaker which can be utilized stand-alone, as a stereo pair, or a part of a house theater speaker system. The brand new Beolab 8 arrives at $2,749 every and can be utilized wired or wirelessly.
Standing just below a foot tall (29 cm), the Beolab 8 is unlikely to dominate any listening house and is greatest suited to bookshelves, desktops, credenzas, and even evening tables.
Craftsmanship
Beolab 8 is designed to look lovely from each angle, regardless of the place and the way the speaker is positioned. The one-piece aluminium physique is a fusion of a sphere and cylinder merged right into a stable form, showcasing excellence in craftsmanship from Bang & Olufsen’s famend Manufacturing facility 5.
Designed with both Danish manufactured wood lamellas or a material entrance, Beolab 8 follows the identical attribute design of Bang & Olufsen’s Beolab and Beosound merchandise together with Beosound Theatre, Beolab 28 and Beolab 50.
Sound
The Beolab 8 implements a three-driver setup consisting of a 16mm tweeter, 3″ midrange and a 5.25″ woofer. Constructing on the heritage of the enduring Beolab 17 speaker, Beolab 8 delivers improved beam width management, room compensation, adaptive tuning in addition to including ultra-wideband know-how.
Options
- Beam width management permits customers to seamlessly change between two listening experiences. Beolab 8 affords the power to slim down with precision audio to optimize the candy spot for the listener. Alternatively, customers can select to go vast and diffuse sound all through the room while the entrance LED’s on the speaker show which sound mode standing the speaker is in.
- Room Compensation gives an optimized soundscape based mostly on a room’s distinctive acoustics. The speaker rigorously maps its atmosphere to ship crystal clear high quality regardless of the dimensions or house of the room. A neodymium motor permits listeners to get pleasure from a soundscape tailored to their environment for full music immersion.
- Adaptive sound tuning lets Beolab 8 adapt its configuration utilizing sensors to detect the entrance cowl and fine-tune the sound for optimum efficiency. That is made potential via small sensors within the speaker and magnets throughout the cowl which permits Beolab 8 to detect the kind of cowl and robotically apply the suitable tuning.
- Extremely-wide band know-how does extra than simply adapt to the room it’s positioned in. It could actually additionally direct the acoustic candy spot based mostly on a consumer’s cellphone location through the Bang & Olufsen app, making certain immersive sound for a dynamic candy spot expertise.
With Bang & Olufsen’s Mozart platform on the coronary heart of the product, Beolab 8 as a stand-alone product can join simply via WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3. And with Powerlink, each wi-fi and wired constructed into the speaker, Beolab 8 is a real system speaker, offering a connection to Bang & Olufsen TVs and sound techniques relationship again greater than 30 years.
High quality
Beolab 8 is designed to face the check of time: utilizing high quality supplies that age gracefully, steady customisation choices and straightforward upgradability over time, long run serviceability in addition to the replaceable streaming module to make sure that Beolab 8 can adapt to the newest know-how requirements. The speaker is designed utilizing Cradle-to-Cradle rules – a design philosophy which permits merchandise to be proactively designed for a round future. Beolab 8 is pending to finish Cradle-to-Cradle Licensed.
Value & Availability
Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8 might be accessible in 4 finishes starting October 30, 2023 and priced from $2,749 every at bang-olufsen.com.
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