jame521 wrote:

Ha, well, maybe I should have mentioned that ittl be connected to a beosound 3200, with 4 beolab 3's... Speakers are as such very much secondary, though the center channel would hopefully even further improve the sound.

I like my B&O stuff a whole lot, so wanted to stay within the brand, and when I saw the überaffordable BV8000 I thought it might do well in replacing my 18 " 30 euro 4:3 Acer monitor.  I'm not expecting it to look as good as a new 30" mac display, but as long as its reasonably good for browsing and word processing, i think the improvement for movies (run off the comp) could justify the switch.....  ;)  - but, as always, open to better B&O alternatives...

Allways tell the whole story ;-)

Makes things kinda easier.

In this case a BV8-32 should indeed be an improvement.

Let us see some pics, once you've bought it.

N.B. Be sure to check, that the 8-32 has MasterLink installed!!!

MM

Good call martin. that is a great way to get a feel for what you'll have infront of you... Obviously a brand new 30" mac would be on a whole different level... idk though.. could be a reasonable prophylaxis for the inevitability of macular degeneration ;)  If all goes to *** though, and i deem it unusable as a main comp. monitor, it would always make as a bitching tv for a guestroom....

Any other Beovisions that anyone knows of that would be stouter but within the same price range used? (ca 200@-650)???

gracias,

james

Hey -

so.... finally have my Beovision 8 (26).. To be more exact, I now have 2... One of them (in white) has the masterlink module, the other black one does not.. I am considering switching the module to the other BV 8 that currently doesn't have one...

I have read on an archived forum that this should be pretty easy to do.. Any comments from anyone who has done it that this is indeed correct?

Also, I read that the software needs to be updated to complete this step.. is this correct?

As far as I know installing the software requires loading it onto a USB stick and sticking it into the otherwise useless USB port in the back of the device...

Any tipps on this aspect???

thanks a bunch, Ill be posting pictures of the setup soon.

james

thanks a bunch for the quick responses..

I installed the module itself a few hours ago.. it seems to have taken it pretty well, no signs of transplant rejection so far ;)... (the unit seems to be the one that allows installation of a tv tuner card) - i assume thats a good thing, right?

now i've spent the last hour trying to get my intial idea to work..... and that would be to have tv and speakers play the same audio source, either from the comp, or from the tv tuner.... all via masterlink....

with a bit of tinkering, probably not totally reproduceable at this point, i was able to make the tv play music off the stereo, and the stereo play the sound coming from the tuner (with a healthy amount of lag)....... what I was so far not able to figure out is how to play music from the comp... leaving the imac and arrivin at the back of the BV 8 with an hdmi cable, set up under DVD... Since most of the movies I watch will be coming from the imac, accomplishing this is my most important task.....

any ideas, or will this even yield good results? it seems to me like the tv doesn't want to route out sound coming in via HDMI (at a first glance)....... i wonder why there is so much lag when the beosound plays sound coming from the tuner (while the tv is also producing the same sound)..... I should mention maybe that the powerlink cables are pretty damn look.. 2 are ca 30 ft... and the masterlink cable is also a healthy 10 meters long.. is this route destined to sound laggy?????

Good Morning (from Munich) -

I'll double check the way of the lag when I get back in the afternoon and can make a bit more noise...

It did however seem fairly obvious last night that the Beovision would be like, grossly, a third of a second ahead of the beosound, especially in vocals, and much more noticeably so when the entire system was playing at lower volumes... Strangely enough, when i cranked up the beosound (which i found a little arduous as I havent figured out a way to set one volume control for tv and stereo in this constellation), the lag seemed to disappear.......

At its worst it almost sounds a bit like reverb.... Which as far as I know is what you call it when a mic picks up the sound and reproduces it.... Like reverb, only it didn't keep building up to a screech like you would expect.....

My other consideration was that the sound quality of the BL3 is just so much more sedated at lower volumes, that the somewhat sparky Beovision at low volumes just produces a drastically different sound, making it appear as if the sounds were happening at different times...

I was really looking forward to using the HDMI audio, as I have this naive notion that such an expensive cable with so much shielding will transmit the sound better than a regular old Ypin auido to rca cable.... I will however try plugging that into the tv, to see if it makes a difference... Honestly though, still a little confused by how i would go about doing that...  Select one of the AV inputs, HDMI yes? Which AV source woud you recommend, or does that not make a difference? (think its time i studied the manual for a while ; )

vielen lieben Dank,

James

jame521 wrote:

I havent figured out a way to set one volume control for tv and stereo in this constellation

This is by design, as masterlink audio distribution is generally used between devices in different rooms, so you'd want the ability to set different volume levels in each product. If both are in the same room it would be better to connect the speakers to the BV6 powerlink connection, then set the BV6 to option 2 and the beosound to option 0. This will allow you to set one volume level, and will also eliminate any echo.

jame521 wrote:

Honestly though, still a little confused by how i would go about doing that...  Select one of the AV inputs, HDMI yes? Which AV source woud you recommend, or does that not make a difference?

Yes, that's correct, and it doesn't matter which AV connection you use as long as it is one which allows the HDMI = yes setting.

Martin.

Hmmm...

Tried connecting the RCA audio out to the AV3 audio ins on the back of the TV... Set AV3 to PC, HDMI yes, and while it showed picture from HDMI, no sound came out.. If I set AV3 to VGA yes, i got sound but no picture ;) .   So, as far as i can tell from that experiment, it wont let me combine the HDMI picture with RCA sound.............

So it looks like getting another y adapter and sourcing all 4 BL3's direct from the TV will be the only good solution... I assume the TV doesn't have to be on for this to work...???

Did you check the audio settings of your computer?

MM

Millemissen wrote:

Did you check the audio settings of your computer?

MM

Exactly as Millemissen said - you may find that the computer mutes the analogue audio out when it detects an HDMI connection, or that you need to specifically configure it to send audio via HDMI.

Martin.