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Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

Steve at Sounds Heavenly — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:21:30 GMT

Hi REL100,

I always try to respond to emails within 48 hours, most of them are sorted out on the same day they arrive. I've got no unanswered emails or ebay messages, so I think your email may not have reached me.

I'm really sorry that you haven't received the prompt reply that I try to give to all of my customers, so please email me via my banner below, or send me a message through BeoWorld and I will get right back to you!

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Steve.

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

solderon29 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:34:27 GMT

You can easily make up an attenuator cable to connect your BL8ooo's to the SP1 sockets.The muting would still work,and the speakers would'nt power up when using the amp from a link room.Not ideal perhaps,as it's tapping off the power amp,but these output stages are so good,it's probably academic?

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

BeoTom — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:05:22 GMT

REL100:

Hi Tommy, I've e-mailed Steve at Heavenly Sounds twice over the last week without so much as a 'thanks for your enquiry' response. Are they usually this slow? Roger.

Hi REL100, sorry to have taken so long to answer your post as well. I'm not sure what Steve at Sounds Heavenly's average response time is. A lot of people here on BeoWorld seem to have been very happy with his work though. If you really want to use the Beomaster 5500 with your BL8000's, don't give up, as I mentioned, I'm using the same combination right now, and am very happy with it! As mentioned elsewhere, you can definitely connect your iPod/MP3 player to the BS4000 using a simple adaptor cable. Check with your local B&O dealer, or even on eBay. There are a lot of different DIN to RCA or DIN to 1/8 mini-jack cable adaptors out there.

Tommy

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

shazbat — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:22:00 GMT

Hi,

Yes via the AUX port on the Overture, my dealer made one up for me, but there used to be a guy by the name of Ridax on here that did a cable that allowed some functionality from the BEO4. Try a search for Ridax.

Shazbat

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

REL100 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:14:41 GMT

OK I've just given up ever hearing from Heavenly Sounds!! And the complexity of getting my Beomaster 5500 to work with the new speakers just frightens me!

My next question is ......I have an Overture and Beolab 8000s. Is it possible to overcome the fact that this only takes a single CD by connecting either an I-Pod or MP3?

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

REL100 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:43:42 GMT

Hi Tommy, I've e-mailed Steve at Heavenly Sounds twice over the last week without so much as a 'thanks for your enquiry' response. Are they usually this slow? Roger.

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

tournedos — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:29:27 GMT

I would expect so otherwise, but the line out connections in BM5500 are before the volume control and fixed level - thus not usable for this purpose.

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

Step1 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:10:26 GMT

Aren't you going to get better sound quality through line level though?

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

REL100 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:27:14 GMT

Thanks guys for the advice. It seems I could have done a bit of damage without it. I've whistled off an e-mail to Steve at Sounds Heavenly in the hope that I can buy some cables tailored to fix the problem. Thanks again.

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

Puncher — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:22:06 GMT

I think B&O used to (still?) supply attenuating leads so that you could connect you main speaker outputs to the line in of your active Beolabs. This meant that the Beomaster retained it's full functionality.

I'm sure Steve at Sounds Heavenly will be able to offer a solution.

p.s. do not connect your Beomaster speaker outputs directly to your Beolabs without any sort of attenuator inline - you may seriously damage your equipment.

Re: Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

BeoTom — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:59:31 GMT

Hi REL100, I have the same setup as you do (Beosystem 5500 with Beolab 8000 speakers. I am using audio cables with (RCA) phono connectors connected to the pre-amp out of the BM5500 into the Line In of the Beolab 8000. It works and sounds very well this way. There are two drawbacks to this connection however, the mute function doesn't work this way, and if you connect headphones to the BM5500, again the speakers won't mute. This doesn't bother me though. You can also check with your B&O dealer or possibly Steve at Sounds Heavenly for a cable/adaptor to connect to the speaker link (speaker 1) outputs of the BM5500 to the phono Line In on the BL8000, with a stepdown transformer (to reduce the amplified signal coming out of the speaker link outputs). Connection this way will allow the mute function to work. Hope that helps! Tommy

Beomaster 5500 connection to Beolab 8000 speakers.

REL100 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:10:55 GMT

Hi. I've just acquired a pair of Beolab 8000 speakers that I want to use to replace my Style 6611 15w speakers. I need the speakers to connect to my Beomaster 5500. It seems like I need to attach phono plugs to the speaker end of my twin cable speaker cables. Any ideas would be welcomed.