Adding extra speakers

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I've been having a play around with my BeoVision 7-40 MK V because despite my beolab 7.2 being an amazing speaker I miss having surround sound.

I have an old Bose Acoustimass 3 active Sub which has a pair of passive cubes attached to it. So I connected up the sub by 5 Pin Din to Phono cable into the Bose Sub and told the TV it was a pair of 8000s as it has the crossover built into the sub. All worked but the sub buzzes. The cable is fine as I used it to test using it as an aux cable into a B&O Hi-Fi and there was no buzz. So I tried plugging my iPhone into the sub with a 3.5 to Phono cable. No buzz.

Is this just a bad combo or has anyone else got similar or any other ideas? I would buy some BeoLabs but would only want a BeoLab 3 2 combo or BeoLab 9s which I just cant afford at the moment!

Cheers

I would suggest that this is an earthing issue. To start with, try earthing the aerial feed to the TV.

My B&O Icons:

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There is no aerial going into the TV just Sky HD so I can't think what it is!

It can be the Sky dish - try earthing the feed.

My B&O Icons:

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Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovox.png Beovox.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Stage.png Beosound-Stage.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beosound-2.png Beosound-2.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-Portal.png Beoplay-Portal.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolit.png Beolit.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
Beocenter-2.png Beocenter-2.png
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