Howto setup a NON B&O amplifier with Beolabs (3.1 or 5.1 surround setup with Pioneer Kuro + Pioneer AVR)

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Forgot to post a photo of the final set-up:

Using these brackets for the 2 center Beolab 4000.

Ralf

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Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

Dear Kallasr

 

Excellent job.

 

I have two Beolab 1, two beolab 8000, beolab 7.1 and beolab 2.

I have a receiver pioneer sc-2022-k with preout, 5 v output and 12v trigger. 

Could you help me to connect beolabs trigger?

I don´t understand very well how do you do.

If you are so kind to send me some esquem or pictures ....

best regards

 

galenoc

galenoc wrote:

I have two Beolab 1, two beolab 8000, beolab 7.1 and beolab 2.

I have a receiver pioneer sc-2022-k with preout, 5 v output and 12v trigger. 

Could you help me to connect beolabs trigger?

I don´t understand very well how do you do.

Hello galenoc and welcome to the forum.

You have quite the same reciever as I do, connectionwise.

You might need an Belkin Rockstar to multply your 2 x 12V trigger outs (worked for me! but no guarantee on this!).

Then you connect the cables mentioned above (see the av-connection website) to Belkin / 12V trigger outs.

That's it.

Best regards
Ralf

 

PS: this is the belkin rockstar, designed as a headphone out mutliplier, but works as described above.

 

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beoplay-V1.png Beoplay-V1.png
Beoplay-H95.png Beoplay-H95.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

Dear Ralf

I have some questions.

There are no problem with trigger of 12 volts instead of 5 volts?

How do you connect the minijact to powerlink? Do you have a diagram to make the cable or do you have the reference in Sounds Heavenly?

Thanks a lot.

 

Galenoc

Please read my first post in this thread.

All the details can be found there and on the referenced websites.

All the best

Ralf

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beoplay-V1.png Beoplay-V1.png
Beoplay-H95.png Beoplay-H95.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

Many thanks Ralf.

I´ll keep inform of my advances.

Finally it isn´t important 12v instead of 5v.

Best

The cables from av connection do the conversion from 12 to 5 V.

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beoplay-V1.png Beoplay-V1.png
Beoplay-H95.png Beoplay-H95.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

Do you mean this Y Splitter reduce the voltage from 12 V to 5 V? Sorry, but "if in doubt, ask..."  🙂

No,

the voltage is reduced by the "rca+triger" cable.

I used the same solution with 2 rear lab6000 and 2 front lab8000 and work fine.

 

"the RCA+triger cable" is from www.av-connection.dk, and not from sounds heavenly, am I right?

A user of the forum said that the Beolab is able to accept a triger signal with 12 V instead 5 V. But maybe it's more secure to buy those rca+trigger cables.

Tx

 

DoubleU wrote:
Yes, no problem! You don't need the 5V transformator. One of the trigger outputs of your Emo can replace the additional adaptor. Much better, because this way your Beolabs will follow your Emo. Emo standby > Beolab2 LED=red

Trigger output of your Emo is 12V, but that's ok. Your Beolabs can handle that. The current draw of 1 Beolab is less then 1 mA, so you're all good!

 

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