{"id":2187,"date":"2014-08-06T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2018-08-01T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:45:29","slug":"bang-olufsen-beolab-18-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/06\/bang-olufsen-beolab-18-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang &#038; Olufsen BeoLab 18 Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/xl_BO-BeoLab-17-Close-624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/xl_BO-BeoLab-17-Close-624-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"xl_B&amp;O-BeoLab-17-Close-624\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/xl_BO-BeoLab-17-Close-624-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/xl_BO-BeoLab-17-Close-624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was part of the development team, and one of the two persons who decided on the final sound design (aka tonal balance) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bang-olufsen.com\/en\/sound\/loudspeakers\/beolab-18\">B&amp;O BeoLab 18<\/a>\u00a0loudspeakers. So, I\u2019m happy to share some of the blame for some of the comments (at least on the sound quality) from the reviews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Dickinson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live-magazines.co.uk\/bernard-dickinson\/\">Live Magazines<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #474747;\">The sound reproduction is flawless&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydogbillede.dk\">Lyd &amp; Billede&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0August 2014 review said<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">&#8220;Lydkvaliteten er rigtig god med en \u00e5ben, distinkt og fyldig gengivelse, som ikke g\u00f8r h\u00f8jopl\u00f8ste lydformater til skamme.&#8221; <\/span>(<span style=\"color: #444444;\">The sound quality is very good with an open, clear and detailed reproduction, which do not put high-resolution audio formats to shame.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">and \u201dStemmerne er lige klare og tydelige, hvad enten vi sidder lige i sm\u00f8rhullet eller befinder os langt ude i siden. Det er faktisk ret us\u00e6dvanligt og g\u00f8r, at BeoLab 18 egner sig lige godt til b\u00e5de baggrundsmusik og aktiv lytning\u201d (The voices are crisp and clear, whether we are sitting right in the sweet spot or far off to the side. It&#8217;s actually quite unusual and makes the BeoLab 18 equally suited for both background music and active listening)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was part of the development team, and one of the two persons who decided on the final sound design (aka tonal balance) of the B&amp;O BeoLab 18\u00a0loudspeakers. So, I\u2019m happy to share some of the blame for some of the comments (at least on the sound quality) from the reviews. &nbsp; Bernard Dickinson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-bang-olufsen","category-loudspeakers","category-self-promotion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-zh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}