BeoLink Converter NL/ML with speakers

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JE
JensT
Bronze
47 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 20:46 GMT
#2109578

Hi,

 

I need some help with my BeoLink converter.

Today i use it to connect Beosound 9000 with Beovision Avant. 

I would like to keep it that way, but also use it to connect speakers trough the Powerlink connection. Is this possible?

So that i could connect 2 speakers and use them as back speakers in a surround system through the Avant.

Hope thats understandable..

Hiort
Hiort
Gold
3593 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 21:29 GMT
#2109579
Im sure you need to connect them to your Avant to benefit from the surround capabilities.

Location: Sweden

My B&O Icons:

Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound-Emerge.png Beosound-Emerge.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
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chucky (archived2)
Bronze
352 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 21:37 GMT
#2109580
Yes you can.

Connect the powerlink in from the converter and the powerlink in from the avant in this device

https://shop.oneremote.dk/en/product/oneremote-powerlink-switch/

If you need more info send an email to oneremote, it works ok. You can only share 1 set of speakers..

I have a BV 6 ML and a core NL connected to the same set of speakers.
JE
JensT
Bronze
47 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 21:49 GMT
#2109581

Now im a bit confused..

I`ll explain in more detail.

Today im using the Avant with Beolab 5 as main speakers. The BeoLink is connected to my network and connects the Beosund 9000 with the Avant.

This week im expecting delivery of Beolab 90. These will be used as my main speakers. This leaves me with a pair of beolab 5 that i would like to use as back speakers. To do so i can`t run cables across the livingroom. The BeoLink is placed at the backwall of the livingroom making it a suitbale place to connect back speakers through the powerlink connection. 

I can`t find any info regarding such a setup with the Beolink. If this is not possible - what would be the best way to go about? Using Transmitter-1?

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chucky (archived2)
Bronze
352 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 22:09 GMT
#2109582
Ok getting more clear, you want to use the converter to drive as backspeakers on the Avant.

In the early days you could switch a tv source as a second source say for instance news in the bedroom on the tv and walk in the bathroom with speakers and presto sound of the tv in your bathroom. (Active kit)

I think your only option is a transmitter, but maybe someone else has a better idea? Even if you could switch them on you still would have only double stereo, not surround.

JE
JensT
Bronze
47 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 22:36 GMT
#2109583

Yes, thats correct.

So to be clear -  the Transmitter would defenetly make such a setup work? Im not to familyiar with this box..

Millemis
Millemis
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15984 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 22:46 GMT
#2109584

JensT wrote:

Now im a bit confused..

I`ll explain in more detail.

Today im using the Avant with Beolab 5 as main speakers. The BeoLink is connected to my network and connects the Beosund 9000 with the Avant.

This week im expecting delivery of Beolab 90. These will be used as my main speakers. This leaves me with a pair of beolab 5 that i would like to use as back speakers. To do so i can`t run cables across the livingroom. The BeoLink is placed at the backwall of the livingroom making it a suitbale place to connect back speakers through the powerlink connection. 

I can`t find any info regarding such a setup with the Beolink. If this is not possible - what would be the best way to go about? Using Transmitter-1?

The Receiver One (asuming that your tv has WPL) would be the solution....

....apart from the fact that this won’t work with the BL5’s.

I am afraid to say that you will have to run cables - the appropriate BL5 cables (and you can daisychain from one BL5 to another).

The BLC can not be integrated for this purpose!

P.S. See also this thread, where Steve/SoundsHeavenly suggests to use the PL output of the Receiver One with the line input of the BL5’s.

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beolab-5---new-receiver-1-and-transmitter-needed#post-2084062

Whether anyone has tested this or not, I don’t know....I would not suggest it:

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

JE
JensT
Bronze
47 posts
Posted July 22, 2018 at 23:07 GMT
#2109585

The tv has WPL. 

Reciver One seems to be a solution. But if i understand the thread you linked to correctly  they would only work in Line input on the speakers. This im assuming means they wont power on/off trough the tv? - thats why you would not suggest it?

 

This turned out to be a bit more troublesome than i thougt it would be... without runing cables..

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Rileq1 (archived2)
Bronze
1 post
Posted July 23, 2018 at 00:31 GMT
#2109586

To the best of my knowledge, the Receiver One cannot be used for Beolab 5's. I believe the 5's require a trigge that the Receivers do not have.

EL
elephant
BronzeFounder
6025 posts
Posted July 23, 2018 at 06:24 GMT
#2109587
I reproduce below Steve’s statement in the thread that MM provided.

Why not PM Dave (or Steve) to see if it did work in practice !

.............

Hi davelarue,

In practice, you CAN use Transmitter1/Receiver 1 with Beolab 5..... Simply use an RJ45 to RCA cable from the Receiver 1 output to the Line input of the speaker, then activate the speaker in Line mode via the B&O remote:-

https://www.soundsheavenly.com/bang-olufsen/65-rj45-powerlink-compatible-to-twin-phono-cable-output-from-new-bo-devices-to-amps-receivers-etc.html

Maybe this isn't the perfect, seamless solution we all wanted, but it will at leaast allow the Beolab 5s to work wirelessly.

Kind regards, Steve.

Steve.

www.soundsheavenly.com

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