Thank you for your info.  Does the range of volume control through the hub give a full range. e.g. zero up to earth shattering?

Petedub wrote:

Thank you for your info.  Does the range of volume control through the hub give a full range. e.g. zero up to earth shattering?

I too have an S8 connection hub in use with a non-B&O TV and Beolab 9. Yes its volume control goes full range zero to ear splitting.

Yes. All the way down to nothing and up to “I’m scared to go further”.

My understanding is that the TV supplies a non-volume regulated audio signal to the hub and hub allows you to control the volume. 

Thinking back to when I was investigating the purchase...

I found settings in my TV and devices to choose what audio stream was output to the TV and to the hub. Wherever I found a setting, I chose stereo over surround. I don’t know if these measures were important, but I haven’t had a problem yet.

One other thing to think of is whether you want the internal TV speakers to function at all. If you have the hub learn the TV remote commands for volume then the TV will get louder as your S8 system gets louder. I got round this because the hub learnt the volume control signals that my harmony remote was sending to the AV Receiver I had previously. My Apple TV remote also works to control the speaker volume.

I have read that some TVs have an option to disable the internal speakers by telling it that you’re using external speakers.

Cheers

Scott M

good to know, thankyou

good to know, thankyou

Goof to know, thankyou

Thanks for the info,

I have just ordered the hub (at a cost!) and have no way of disabling my tv speakers.  I use an old ipod touch with an ir transmitter to control everything so will just put some other signal on the volume so that the tv volume wont react.  Good to know that you can get full range volume, as sometimes you just have to go loud.