Hi Mister TD and welcome to BeoWorld.

What will very quickly become apparent when you starting looking at other brands of TV's is how much you had when you bought your BeoVision 7. The integrated surround Sound decoder enabled you to plug front, rear and Sub-woofer directly to the TV and it handled all surround sound processing. 

If you go with another brand of TV, to my knowledge you will also need an external AV processor to enable you to achieve a surround sound set up using your existing B&O speakers. Doable but you have to accommodate another box and you will also loose the ability to control third party boxes such as Sky, Apple TV etc with your TV controller.

Have you considered either BeoVision Horizon or Eclipse. If your BeoVision 7 is on a floor stand you can purchase an adapter bracket from STB Brackets which enables you to hang the Horizon on your existing floor stand albeit with no motor control as the Horizon doesn't have a motorised floor stand option. 

Currently deals available from B&O dealers on both Horizon and Eclipse models.

Sorry, I don't have much experience with non-B&O TV's but I'm sure others will wade in. 

Good luck with whichever route you go.

Regards

Opman

A BV7 is more than just a tv.

A central part of it is the audio processor, the ‘A/V receiver’, the multi channel preamp.

That is where you have connected, configured and controlled you speaker setup untill now.

And exactly this is something that litteraly all tv’s (except for the BV’s and maybe Loewe tv’s) haven’t got onboard.

This means that you will need an external box (usually called an A/V receiver with preout spreakers connections) for what you are about to do....in addition to the Samsung or whatever tv.

There is no easy solution to this - this question is asked a lot of times on the forum.

Apart from the mentioned A/V receiver solution there is a box from the German company called Almando - some people like that, others don’t.

Keep on reading here - maybe someone can give you an example from his real life experience.

And welcome to the forum ;-)

 

MM

Hi Steve!

Thank you for your answer, and I have subscribed! Thanks to opman and millemissen for the answers as well, and I will keep the eclipse in mind (the the bv7 in my heart).

So if I understand correctly, the only way to keep the volume on the tv remote with a different tv would be to only keep two of the speakers. As for the other two options, I would like to keep the wired connection, so would there be a Beosound system to accomodate all 5 cables or do I need to convert them to wireless?

What are some good quality external AV receivers?

Agree. The Beovisions really should be marketed better to help people really understand why they carry a premium and not just an expensive TV with a B&O logo.

How about a used BV11? I replaced my BV7 with one and it is superb.

The Beoremote 1 is just brilliant too.

@Steve

When you mention 2 options for connecting in order to have stereo sound, you might also have mentioned the Connection Hub (which will still be available) as a third option in that category:

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/new-beoplay-connection-hub

and it is also described here in the video from John. 

You can easily use that with any BeoLabs, not just the S8 set. 

 

However, I read the initial post as a question about multichannel setup and a new Samsung tv.

And here - as you also mention - the only option is an external A/V receiver.

I am with Opman - someone who is used to and likes the simplicity of a B&O setup including a multi channel speaker setup, might consider a newer B&O.

 

MM

Hi MM,

Yes, I agree that the S8 Connection Hub is superb, the reason I didn’t suggest this was that they have just been discontinued by B&O and they are becoming very hard to find.

I need to clarify my first answer - option 1 should say ‘connect two OR MORE speakers to the tv headphone socket’ as you can use more than two speakers for this option if you wish.  However, you will only get stereo sound this way.

The first thing to ask is whether the new tv will be B&O or a different brand?

Next, if it is a different brand, will it have a headphone socket fitted?

This makes it easier to narrow down the options.  Any questions, please ask!

Kind regards, Steve.

Hi Steve,

I'm not sure if the second part is still aimed at me, but here goes:

1) For the moment, I'm still thinking about a different brand, like Samsung

2) It will probably have a headphone socket, but I would like to keep the current 5.1 surround system.

Would a Marantz SR6013 be a good AV receiver? What cables/adapters would I need to plug all 6 of them into it?

The cables for the two 6000s in the back go through the wall plugs and they are loooong, so I would like to keep them there. Are there any short cables/adapters to plug them into the AV receiver?

Kind Regards,

MisterTD

You can also pick up a second hand BeoSystem 3 or 4 to handle at least the surround sound audio duties.