
A high-end speaker for any living room.
BeoLab 5 is the world's first speaker that adapts to its environment by pressing a button. Thus solves two fundamental problems which were previously considered as unsolvable in the speaker construction industry: Adaptation to the room conditions and direction control of the sound. The result is a pure sound and bass response, regardless of the placement of the speaker or the listener's position.
When the listener sits in a room that is filled with the overwhelming sound of the BeoLab 5, he has the feeling that the walls disappear and the ceilings open up to let the sound flow. From the lowest to the highest tones the sound is pure and free from external noise, natural and enormous, without ever being perceived as loud - not even at the highest levels.

Adaptive Bass Control.
The biggest challenge for a loudspeaker company is the unknown living environment and the position of the speaker therein. But these two factors are essential for the sound quality. For example, if a speaker is in a corner, it can be as good - the result is often a humming and inaccurate bass. A free-standing speaker typically produces a thin bass.
The solution is called "Adaptive Bass Control" (ABC): The ABC technology, which features a flexible microphone system, measures and analyzes the reflections of the room and the surroundings (furniture, present people) and compensates them by automatical adjustment of the bass. Thus, the speakers can be placed anywhere and always offers the same quality of bass. If the position of the BeoLab 5 or the design of the room changes, the self-calibration can be triggered by a small button at the top of the speaker and accomplishes automatically within minutes.
The Design.
With its bold, cone-like shape and the elliptical lenses BeoLab 5 breaks completely with the definitions of traditional notions of a high-end device, and provides a welcome addition to any living environment.
When Lewis placed the bass unit in the base of loudspeaker, directed against the ground, there arose the cone shape. The acoustic lenses in the upper half of the speaker appear to float strung like a chain and give the BeoLab 5 despite a weight of 61kg, a visual lightness.
The system includes four specially developed active speaker units, each with its own amplifier. The high and mid-range units consist of elliptically shaped, acoustic lenses made of brushed aluminum. The two bass drivers, one for the higher and one for the deep bass are integrated into a closed housing which is surrounded by a noble, aluminum jacket. In addition a heat dissipation, made of cast aluminum, is discretely attached to the back of the speaker.


