I would try a pair of plain 2 pin din speaker wires first and see if the speakers work. Forget the displays till then. Set the switches correctly on the front - I take it you have the manual? If the speakers work, the displays should be reasonably simple - I hope!!

The speakerlinkcable from the BS9000 splits the line level audio from the datasignals.

So therefore, you have to connect the rca connectors to the penta for the audio signal, where the speakerlink has to be connected for sending the right datasignals for the displays. The switch should in this case be set in the "line" option.

The manual was written years before BS9000 even existed, so it can't describe this setup. Since the Beosound doesn't have any power amplifiers and thus no speaker level outputs, your only option with Mk.I Pentas is feeding audio through the RCA connectors and switching the speakers to LINE mode. The sensitivity switch does nothing then.

As Beobuddy says, in this context the DINs are only used to feed data to the displays. Forget about them for now, and test that you get sound from both speakers.

Spiros wrote:

There is no line on the pentas but only link. Is this the one? Otherwise it does have off and auto which in any case do not give anything.....

Oh yes, AUTO should be the correct setting. And I was wrong about the sensitivity switch, it does work even with the line input. I guess medium setting would be fine.

Buzzing does indeed suggest that the speaker works but the input signal isn't correctly fed. Now I'm not sure anymore what kind of cable you have. You should have a Powerlink connector (round 8 pin) at one end, and an RCA plug + a four pin Speakerlink plug at the other, or what...? If you don't have the audio signal coming to the RCA socket on the speaker, it's not going to work.

I am not that familiar with the BS9000 but would you have any volume control at all this way ?

Martin