Hi IndyBoy1007,

Welcome to Beoworld!  Yes, Lawrence is correct, you just need one Powerlink to RJ45 cable from the Essence or the Core to the Beolab 2 (

Hello hello! :) So grateful for the input from you both,

My hope is to be able to play my music from my phone spotify etc through the 8000s and use BL 2 to override bass from the 8000s.

Overriding the base and true stereo are much less important to me at this stage than being able to play to the speakers and subwooferf from my phone which is the main objective - is this the setup you're describing and is this the only way without other hardware? 

My (novice) understanding was the core could make the 8000s wireless in fact it says so as an example on the website advert - apologies if I'm being dense here still very new and keen to learn

Please do advise!

Ahh I think I've been unclear - when i said wirelessly I meant to be able to play from my phone to the speakers I didn't mean to imply wireless as in I dont want cables running - hope that helps 

Totally my mistake

*facepalm*

Hi,

Yes the Core will allow you to stream music wirelessly from your phone to the Core without any extra hardware needed.  It will also stream wirelessly to newer speakers (eg. Beolab 18, 20, etc) with WiSA receivers built in, without anything extra needed.

To get a wireless link from the Core (and hence from your phone) to older speakers like Beolab 2 and 8000, you need B&O's Receiver 1 boxes (one for each mono speaker like Beolab 8000 and two for each stereo speaker like Beolab 2).

Hope this helps.

Kind regards, Steve.

Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

It will also stream wirelessly to newer speakers (eg. Beolab 18, 20, etc) with WiSA receivers built in, without anything extra needed.

I think Core does not have WISA bulit in. That was a reason for me to go for the Moment...

Sorry, thanks for the correction!