I was told by the dealer that it was not necessary to buy the center speaker to beovision 7, and instead just use my beloab 3 speakers in speaker 2 mode. The only problem I have is that the TV starts up in speaker 3 option which is bad when you don't have a center speaker connected. Is it possible to make the TV start up in speaker 2 mode each time you turn it on?

Thanks in advance

 

 

Connect your front speaker to center connection on the right side instead, and call it BL 7-1

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Hi Stig,

I am not sure I can follow you here. Do you want me to connect the right speaker as it was a center speaker permhanently?

 

No.. both speakers to the center output (the center output is placed at the right side of the TV. "not on the surround modul") and then call it 7-1 because then they Will play in stereo..

Dear Nigel Mansell alias "The Stig"

I still don't get it. The only "speaker out" I have are placed in the surround modul. There are six; 1xsub,1xcenter,2x rear, 2xfront.

 Furthermore (I didn't mention that) I have connected my Beosound4 to the TV as weel. That means that the Beolab3 also has to play as "normal" front speakers.

 I would hate to pay 3000€ for a 7-1 if its not necessary.

 BR

You can use the BL3 without a BL7-1 acting as a center speaker but in a 5.1 setup the center speaker is needed to enhance the dialogs.

Do test it without the center speaker and see if it suits you.

And yes, you can setup your BV7 to use the speaker 2 as default.

Nigel ???

if you look behind the other cover, on the back of your TV. you will find to more Power link connections at the bottom, thats the center connection. plug your speakers to this connection and then remove your fonts speakers in the sound menu. then it works the way you want it to.

The center Power link on the surround modul is to a cinema center...

The driver called The Stig in Topgear is in fact Nigel Mansell. (says the rumour)

I have tried it out and it works fine. But I am not sure if it plays in stereo. I think that the center signal is in mono also in 7-1 mode. Furthermore I now have the exact opposit problem when I turn on the radio. When I turn on the radio I have to change speaker mode to speaker 3???

I can read in the manual that I should be able to configure the speaker mode depending which source I am listening to. But I do not have  menus under sound adjustments. Why is that? Because of an old OS system?

 

You could just change the 'default video' setting to 'Speaker 2' in the Menu

thats becauce you haven't set the front speaker to none thats why it play mono and no sound in audio mode just change it to none and it will work...

Alex

in video mode it's only possible to set it to speaker 1 or 3 as default

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Do as The Stig says, connect the BeoLab 3s to the two PowerLink connections you see on the left of the TV as you look at it from behind, and call them 'BeoLab 7-1'.

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Thanks a lot, it works fine. Do you know if the center signal has a reduzed frequence area?  In most surround solutions the center signal is reduced and optimised for vocals and cuts of other frequences.

 

No, as in this case, the centre channel isn't acting as a 'centre channel', but just as a stereo pair of speakers. Bear in mind that really, the 7-1 and 7-2 are more suited to act as a standalone speaker, unlike the 7-4 which is ONLY for centre-channel audio, and doesn't reproduce the full frequency range.