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Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

soundproof — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:45:43 GMT

I use an Airport Express, connected to my Beosystem 7000, through AUX.

You can either use a minijack to DIN converting cable. (Several available through the web/LifeStyle-AV).

Or you can use the optical digital out (through the same jack). You then need a Toslink Minijack-to-Toslink regular optical cable, and a stand-alone DAC to convert the digital signal to an analogue one that your BeoSound 9000 will understand. This is a more complicated solution, but you can get a better conversion of the sound than you get by using the DAC in the Airport Express.

Your laptop has to be Wi-Fi enabled. But the advantage is that you can use it wherever you wish throughout your home, and still be able to send music to your BeoSound, without having a cable attached. This freedom of movement is yours to have whether you are using a mechanical or optical connection, of course.

If the music on your laptop is compressed with low bitrate MP3, below 320kbps, then I would recommend the cable in the illustration. If you have lossless files on your laptop, then you should consider the stand-alone DAC between the Airport Express and the BeoSound 9000. The Airport Express will transfer files up to and including CD resolution (16 bit/44.1kHz).

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

panamaszr12 — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:03:39 GMT

You can purchase a 7pin din male to mp3 adapter on ebay. Then all you need is a long mini head phone cable to reach your laptop. you will need to switch your 9000 to AUX to hear the music.

Panama

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

Hamburg — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:19:04 GMT

That's what I do. I'm sorry I wasn't clear with plugging in, when I plug the mains adaptor in I get the humming noise.

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

Coolskin — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:34:01 GMT

Hamburg:
I have the same and it works for me. However you can not plug in your laptop as this creates a bad humming noise.

Try your laptop without mains adapter.

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

joeyboygolf — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:46:12 GMT

The Aux din socket carries both input and output information. It will depend which pins you jack is connected to as to whether your cable is designed to feed info into the beocenter or extract info from it.

An example of an output from the 9000 would be to record your cd's onto a tape recorder. An input example would be to listen to an i-pod through the 9000 and it's connected speakers. The same cable won't do both jobs and it sounds like you have the wrong one.

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

Hamburg — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:41:29 GMT

I have the same and it works for me. However you can not plug in your laptop as this creates a bad humming noise.

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

jk1002 — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:55:55 GMT

On the BS9000 the AUX carries both in and out. Some cables though are either in or out. You might need a different cable.

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

rob2801 — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:54:13 GMT

Hi Joey

On my Beosound there is only one "aux" 5 pin din....

Re: Laptop to Beosound 9000

joeyboygolf — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:49:32 GMT

Depends which pins the jack connects to in the din which has both in and out connections. I suspect you are connecting to the out instead of in.

Laptop to Beosound 9000

rob2801 — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:46:13 GMT

Is there any way to connect a laptop to play through a Beosound 9000?

On my old stereo it was just a case of a phono jack to 2 audio (red and white) leads.....

I have bought a 5 pin din connector and a phono jack however no sound comes out?

Advice would be grestful

Rob.