Hello,

I am completely new to the B&O world and have the chance to buy a pair of Beolab 8000 speakers at what seems a very good price. Trouble is the Beocenter 2300 cd player being sold with it does not play. Rather than spend a lot of money on repairing it I see that there a possibility to connect the speakers to my Sony Viao laptop where my music library is and use it as the cd / music player. I am completely non-technical as far as this is concern so could someone kindly advise me in laymans language 1. whether this really is possible and 2. just what I would need to do and lastly 3. whether this way i will get the full benefit of the beolabs with the active amplifiers (whatever that means ) 

Many many thanks.

mike

You will need a 3.5 Mm. minijack to connect to the headphone or sound out on your Lap top, this connected to 2 RCA phono plugs, connect the phono plugs to line on the BL 8000 (remember to set the switch to "line"), the sound will depend on the sound card and the quality of your music in your lap top, the BLs will play it like it is.

Sound heavenly at the end of this page can provide cable, check the distance from lap to speakers, you can use the same cable to play directly from MP3 players

I do it similar, I have an ipod (3mm) to aux lead from sounds heavenly into my overture and it works the same!

Hi thanks for the answer - but what does "Sound heavenly" mean ?

 

Hi thanks for the answer but what does "sounds heavenly" and " overture" mean in this context ?

 

Sounds heavenly is a sponsor of beoworld. You will find his add on the bottom of this forum. Because of him you can post your question.....

And of course others like Lee and stb brackets

hi, you will find the link on the bottom right of this page.  Its got a picture of Steve and is a blue advert, click on there and you will find the cables you need

 

cheers Nick

k22:

what does ... "overture" mean in this context ?

B&O Overture <= hit the link

elephant:

k22:

what does ... "overture" mean in this context ?

B&O Overture <= hit the link

I missed that one, its another b&o hifi!

 

Thanks to all for the help. Another quick question re the Beocenter 2300. CD has stopped working (disk does not revolve) - is there any chance of a simple solution to this or is it usually something complicated that requires it to go back to a B&O place to be repaired at vaste expense? Any thoughts will be most welcome.

mike