Volume Control on my 8000's

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FieryJack (archived2)
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Posted September 19, 2020 at 08:00 GMT
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Hi everyone , just joined , thanks for having me.I'm an absolute novice 

to all this so please be patient.My question is this , I cannot adjust the volume on my 8000's. I recently purchased them off ebay and bought a brand new rega planer 3 , the shop I bought the turntable from asked me me what amp I was using....anyway , long story short   he got in touch with a b+o dealer who recommended using a quad preamp , which I bought off him brand new.

So , I've wired it all up , but no volume control....the indicator on the preamp shows an increase but constant volume , same if I push the mute  on the remote for the preamp.....no effect.

JA
Jaffrey
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529 posts
Posted September 19, 2020 at 09:14 GMT
#2143993

You need an amp or source with a volume control. 

LA
lawrencejmcook
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Posted September 19, 2020 at 10:13 GMT
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FieryJack wrote:

Hi everyone , just joined , thanks for having me.I'm an absolute novice

to all this so please be patient.My question is this , I cannot adjust the volume on my 8000's. I recently purchased them off ebay and bought a brand new rega planer 3 , the shop I bought the turntable from asked me me what amp I was using....anyway , long story short he got in touch with a b+o dealer who recommended using a quad preamp , which I bought off him brand new.

So , I've wired it all up , but no volume control....the indicator on the preamp shows an increase but constant volume , same if I push the mute on the remote for the preamp.....no effect.

Hi FieryJack,

If your Quad pre-amp has two sets of outputs, it could be that one set is volume controlled, and one at fixed level. Does the pre-amp User guide tell you?

You may have connected the BL8000s to the fixed-level outputs - but then they would be playing very loud!

Lawrence
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FieryJack (archived2)
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Posted September 20, 2020 at 06:57 GMT
#2143995

I had connected them to the wrong outputs.

Works fine now.

Cheers.

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