You need to buy a Passive – Active converter, so the 2500s plug into it, then the red and black leads can be plugged directly into the powerlink clips. Press SOUND, 3 on the Beolink 1000 to switch to the 2500s on EXTERNAL, then SOUND, 1 to switch back.

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Richardd, Richardd, Richardd, 

Powerlink is the 8-pin socket that modern BeoLab speakers use, the red and black clips, if they exist at all, are for non-B&O speakers, or the conventional BeoVox speakers.

Yes, you ought to be able to run the 2500's off of the PL sockets on the MX-5000.  I would caution you to be careful with heavy bass though.  Unlike it's bigger cousins, the BL-2500's  do not do their own bass-overload protection.  Other than that, Richardd's instructions are fine.

Russ 

🙂OK, thanks...so the speakers won't just power on automatically when I turn the tv on (as long as I have activated the powerlink sockets)?  The other active speakers that I have (penta 1s) turn on when there is a source playing thru, and shut down when the source is quiet.

Guy

If attached the same way, to the same source, the 2500's will operate the same as the Penta2/3.  The question is wether or not the MX has been informed that you have attached external speakers, and that it is expected to use them by default.  None of the TV's 'assume' that is your intention just because you plug something in.

 Russ