Can I use a Non B&O Sub with a Beosound3000 and Beolab6000's.

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hello

you can find easy this kind of cable on ebay and with the BW you can choose the frequency cross over to married with your BL6000

Thanks for all the info....but after much soul searching I decided to buy a Beolab2 this afternoon.

So glad I did........System now sounds awesome.

Thanks again guys 

Does the red connection here allow the PV1 to switch on an off automatically?

 

Great diagram! Thanks! 

I have contacted loads of people yesterday trying to find a solution to this problem. I also looked at beotech website for the wiring diagrams but as I am no technician I found it hard to get my head around.

A lot of people on this forum say that B&O can supply the leads required but every dealer I have spoke to have all told me no! I contacted B&W and emailed them this diagram and the wiring diagram, but the answer the salesman gave was complete jargen. B&O can supply a din splitter but not the din to RCA lead which is the one you need.

Looking at the diagram and the wiring diagram form beotech, it looks like the wire is the right signal output so it would not turn the sub on and off. You need phantom power for that but its not shown on this diagram.

In the end, I gave up and bought BL2.  

If there is someone on here who has bought a Din to phone lead or has made lead should post there details on here and maybe make them to order as there is no one i contacted yesterday ( inc Maplins) who are prepared to make this lead. 

I see you can buy this cable from ebay and B&O itself, but what about the cable from the din to RCA? Where do you but this from?
sharif:

Thanks for all the info....but after much soul searching I decided to buy a Beolab2 this afternoon.

So glad I did........System now sounds awesome.

Thanks again guys 

 I can respect that, because it's very hard to put a non-B&O item into you B&O collection 🙂. Last year I had to choose between the BV6 and a Pioneer Kuro and it was very very hard to choose, because all my other component are all B&O. In the end I choose for the Pioneer, because of the better and bigger image. After that non-B&O item it was easier to buy other non-B&O items (such as a hdd recorder), but sometimes I wished I had taken the B&O (integration with my other equipment and the pretty looks). 

Wish you much fun with your BL2

Rogér
 

Thanks Chap!!! 

Possibly being stupid here, but looking at the diagram above, surely not doing anything with the feed from the red wire means that you will only get the left channel going through the sub. Pin 2 is ground and pin 3 left and pin 5 right.

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