Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8 Gold Tone Active Wireless Speaker

Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8 Gold Tone Active Wireless Speaker – Sculptural Sound That Adapts to the Room

Most speakers ask the room to accommodate them. The Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8, in its Gold Tone aluminium finish, was designed to accommodate the room – acoustically and visually. This compact active speaker carries a three-way driver system (5.25-inch woofer, 3-inch midrange, 0.6-inch tweeter) driven by 300 watts of Class D amplification per speaker, and it tunes itself to its position with Active Room Compensation and Beam Width Control. Use one as a standalone streaming speaker, a pair for serious stereo, or more within a compatible Bang & Olufsen surround system.

Key features

• Three-way active design with dedicated woofer, midrange and tweeter
• 200 W + 50 W + 50 W Class D amplification built into each speaker
• Active Room Compensation adapts the sound to placement and room
• Beam Width Control switches between focused sweet-spot and wide listening
• Network streaming and Bluetooth 5.3 for everyday playback routes
• Ethernet, USB-C and Power Link connections for system integration
• Gold Tone finish over a sculpted aluminium body, 4.1 kg per speaker
• Works standalone, in a stereo pair or in compatible B&O surround setups

Room compensation is the real technology

Put any speaker on a sideboard, in a corner or on a stand and the room changes what you hear – usually by inflating bass and smearing detail. Beolab 8 measures and compensates for its placement, so the same speaker sounds consistent on furniture, on its optional stand or mounted as the design allows. Beam Width Control adds a second trick: narrow the dispersion for one listener in the perfect seat, or widen it when the audience is a sofa full of people. It is engineering aimed at real living rooms, not anechoic chambers.

A speaker, or the start of a system

On its own, Beolab 8 is a complete streaming speaker for a bedroom, study or design-led living space. In a pair it becomes a genuine high-end stereo system with no separate amplifier or rack. Within the wider Bang & Olufsen ecosystem, Power Link and network connections let it take surround or multiroom roles alongside compatible televisions and speakers. Wireless here describes the music connection, not the power: each speaker needs its mains connection, so plan sockets as part of the placement.

Ownership notes

Positioning stands and brackets are optional accessories rather than part of the speaker, so confirm exactly what your package includes and choose the stand or mount for your room before installation. Set the speaker up through the Bang & Olufsen app, run the room compensation in its final position, and revisit Beam Width for how you actually listen.

In Gold Tone, Beolab 8 is as much a piece of the room as a piece of audio equipment – compact, self-tuning and considerably more capable than its size suggests.

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