Yep.. Good idea on your parts, but i checked that... Its a mac, which lets you choose pretty transparently where the sound comes out from..... 

I would try using another AV group and a beo4 source other than PC (V.AUX for example). Hopefully you will then be choosing between HDMI and a standard definition AV source (rather than VGA) and see if that makes any difference.

A few questions for you:

What is your current setup? You mention 4 speakers - is this two connected to the BV8 and two connected to the BS3200?

Are both units (BV8 and BS3200 in the same room?

When you say that with the computer connected via HDMI there was no sound, was there no sound either device or was there sound from the BV8 but none from the BS3200?

Kind Regards,

Martin.

jame521 wrote:

Yep.. Good idea on your parts, but i checked that... Its a mac, which lets you choose pretty transparently where the sound comes out from.....

Hey Martin,

i tried both of the ports allowing RCA Input, believe its 3 and 4, and neither wanted to work..

Current setup is a beosound 3200 with 4 Beolab 3... In the same room as a BV 8, connected to the 3200 via masterlink.  Sound source is my mac mini, which can send sound e i t h e r via ypin-RCA or directly through HDMI.. It will allow you to send out sound/music via 1, and then alert sounds through the other output... Do not know of a way to output via both (RCA & HDMI) simultaneously though....

When i connect the audio of the mac mini via HDMI, sound came out of the TV.. But I was not able to channel that sound through to the speakers on the beosound by pressing AV.  I can however, forward sound from the cable TV input via the TV to the Beosound. (this worked but was accompanied by the strange reverb/lag i mentioned earlier)

I just tried connecting the two front speakers directly to the BV8. (cannot connect all 4 at this point because I lack the one further y splitter for the powerlink cables i would need (that would be 3 splitters in toto)).. works fine. sounds good. no lag, and the speech comes out of the center channel the way you would want it to..

I think this is the route I will go. 1 more Powerlink y adapter, and then all 4 BL 3 will be connected to the 1 outlet on the back of the TV. Since 90% of my music would be coming from the mac mini, then via HDMI to the TV, then directly to all 5 speakers, this seems like the optimal solution for almost everything I am trying to achieve..

Now I just have to figure out how to route CD, Radio, and CD MEM from the Beosound to the speakers, preferably without having to turn on the TV......

Is that possible??

Hi James,

Good effort there with your troubleshooting process.

jame521 wrote:

I just tried connecting the two front speakers directly to the BV8. (cannot connect all 4 at this point because I lack the one further y splitter for the powerlink cables i would need (that would be 3 splitters in toto)).. works fine. sounds good. no lag, and the speech comes out of the center channel the way you would want it to..

I think this is the route I will go. 1 more Powerlink y adapter, and then all 4 BL 3 will be connected to the 1 outlet on the back of the TV. Since 90% of my music would be coming from the mac mini, then via HDMI to the TV, then directly to all 5 speakers, this seems like the optimal solution for almost everything I am trying to achieve..

Yep, this makes sense to me. It's a shame that there was never a surround module option for the BV8 otherwise you would also have had the ability to switch between centre speaker only, two front speakers only, all four speakers, or 5.0 surround with the group of speakers you are attaching.

jame521 wrote:

Now I just have to figure out how to route CD, Radio, and CD MEM from the Beosound to the speakers, preferably without having to turn on the TV......

This bit should be easy. Just set your BV8 to option 2, and set the BS3200 to option 0 (let me know if you need instructions for this as I can't remember whether we have already covered this before).

Then pressing CD, Radio, A.MEM etc should all result in audio coming from the speakers connected to the BV8 without the screen coming on, and you also won't experience any of that annoying echo / delay.

Kind Regards,

Martin.

Okay. with a bit of fiddling... still confused with the difference between 'setting 1 and 2' and option 0-5 ... either way, i optioned the Beosound at 0, and the TV at 2.... now when i press cd/radio/atape or the like, the green indicator on the tv goes on, as well as the speakers and the Beosound, and it plays what it is supposed to - out of the Beolab 3's, but NOT out of the center speaker on the TV.... uff... I think i just need an afternoon with the manuals and maybe I'll get to the bottom of it..

though right now i feel like I'm getting pretty close.. Only drawback I'm noticing so far is that the entire system produces significantly more humming noise when on at low volumes than it did before... Something I always adored about the 3200 was how quiet the system was... Oh well, its not terrible now, just a little more noticeable.

Okay. with a bit of fiddling... still confused with the difference between 'setting 1 and 2' and option 0-5 ... either way, i optioned the Beosound at 0, and the TV at 2... (achieved this, i think, by pressing off and list on the remote, going to option, scrolling to audio and video, and pressing the number 0 and 2, respectively. now when i press cd/radio/atape or the like, the green indicator on the tv goes on, as well as the speakers and the Beosound, and it plays what it is supposed to - out of the Beolab 3's, but NOT out of the center speaker on the TV.... uff... I think i just need an afternoon with the manuals and maybe I'll get to the bottom of it..

Is there a way to also make the TV's speaker fire in this scenario?????

though right now i feel like I'm getting pretty close.. Only drawback I'm noticing so far is that the entire system produces significantly more humming noise when on at low volumes than it did before... Something I always adored about the 3200 was how quiet the system was... Oh well, its not terrible now, just a little more noticeable.

jame521 wrote:

Is there a way to also make the TV's speaker fire in this scenario?????

Yes (or very likely yes, as I'm not 100% sure how the beovisions without surround modules behave)...

If you press LIST repeatedly on your remote, is 'SPEAKER' one of the options?

If so, when it shows, press 1 for TV speaker only, 2 for your beolabs, or 3 for both.

If not, you'll need to add it to the list and I can give you instructions to do so.

Kind Regards,

Martin.

Genius Martin! 

for celebration, a little early beoporn ;) - don't worry, those wires will be hidden in no time (eta 2-3 weeks when I'm certain everything is the way i want it ;)

thanks a bunch!

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The BV8 looks really good as a computer monitor - how did you find the image quality in the end for this use?

One little extra for you in case you are not already aware of it (I'm assuming this works with the BV8):

Add the 'AV' function to LIST if it is not already there.

Then, when you have already selected for example, PC, and have the computer image on screen, scroll through the LIST until AV is shown and press CD, RADIO or A.MEM buttons and you can listen to those sources without losing the computer picture 🙂

Kind Regards,

Martin.