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To use your passive speakers, you must connect the Beolink Passive to the BS9000 by a PowerLink cable. Do not connect any IR-eye. Then connect the speakers to the two spearker-out connectors on the Beolink Passive. To connect all four speakers yur must connect them in pairs or split the cable somewhere.

The Beolink Passive is a good amp., and will give you 30 W at 8 ohm. It can handle op to 4 sets of speakers, but this will limit volumen.

Hopes this helps, otherwise just ask again.

Christian,

Many thanks for your advice. I'll let you know how I get on.

Paul

Don't know if that will work.

I thought the Passive has Masterlink in and Powerlink/2 pin din out. I didn't think the Passive would activate without the remote sensor.

Peter 

Hi!

I guess it's a BeoCenter 9000 and not Beosound 9000 ( 6Cd player) you have when you say you have din connections for speakers. Of course you can connect your passive speakers directly to the Beocenter.

regards 

I told you I was new to this!

The unit has 6 CDs and a radio. Connections are a Masterlink socket an Aux socket and 2 Loudspeaker sockets (9 pin?).

The Passive has 2 Loudspeaker sockets with the more familiar 2 pins.

I have downloaded the manual for the 9000, but that only talks about Active speakers.

Paul 

Then, take a B&O remote control (assuming you have one), and pointing stright into the BeoSound 9000 which should be in standby (with the BeoLink passive unplugged from the mains), press LIST and STANDBY on the remote control at the same time. Use the up and down arrows to cycle through until you get to OPTION?. Press GO and choose A.OPT, and then press go again. Then press 0. What this will do, is disable the IR receiver inside the BeoSound 9000, because you want to use the one which is connected to the BeoLink Passive.

Now, you need to do something similar to the BeoLink Passve. Disconnect the BeoSound 9000 from the wall, and making sure the IR sensor is properly connected to the BeoLink Passive box, press LIST and STANDBY on the B&O remote at the same time, choose OPTION? and then A.OPT. Press go, and push 6 on the remote control. This will tell the BeoLink Passive that it's a link product.

Reconnect the BeoSound 9000 to the mains, and when you push CD, the IR sensor connected to the BeoLink Passive will pick up the IR signals, and wake up the BeoSound 9000, which will then pass sound back down the MasterLink cable into the BeoLink Passive.

Tell us if it works! You might even get a degree of hands on control, being able to push the buttons on the side of the BeoSound 9000 to choose CDs (although this won't wake the system up if it's all asleep).

While Alex is in the main correct, there is no need to OPTION program the BeoSound 9000, if no speakers are connected directly then it will default to OPTION 0.

😂 Mybad! These danes are smarter than you think, they've thought about everything! ;)