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[Timothy Quek]

Hi all,

Background:
Found seller for BL18/19 but its connected to his wider B&O system. He wants to ensure post disconnection the rest of his system (Eclipse/Celestial/think i saw a core look alike) continues to function fine.

I am contemplating either getting B&O to help with the disconnection/reinstallation but they quoted me $500. Wanted to explore if i could do this myself.

I’ve been scouring the BL18’s manual/web/youtube for advise but discussions relating to wall mounted BL18’s are thin. The manual being vague does not help either. Appreciate if anyone can provide advise on this front.

Questions

• Would it be as simple as plugging out the wires and the rest of his system would continue to function?
• What tools do i need to bring along for the dismantling of wall bracket? (eg: Screw drivers)
• How do i dismantle? My guess based on the manual is remove the front lamella to expose wire connection into BL18, remove wires, lift the beolab18 out and place on a soft sheet, unscrew the wallmount, remove wires from hub. – wondering if this correct?
• From the perspective of sound quality, is it recommended for the wall backing to be concrete? Or would a reinforced partition board be fine?

 

Regards,

Tim

[christoffer.betzer]

Is there a solution where I can connect my PlayStation 5 to my BeoVision Eclipse and control it with my BeoRemote One?

[Robert]

STB Brackets have a solution for upgrading the Eclipse MKI to LG C2, C3, and C4:) They have removed it from the shop for now – they write that they are working on a better upgrade together with B&O for the MKI. Good news!

https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/product/beovision-eclipse-lg-c4-upgrade-adapter/

[Mbee]

Hi,

I had the exact same issue with my Eclipse MKI (which is basically the same product) : once the EEPROM board (a daughterboard connected to the Eclipse Motherboard) has been replaced, no issue anymore.

The replacement including labour was about 60o€ (for an Eclipse, I hope it’s less on a Stage)

[London Joe]

Hello all,

I’ve been away from the forum for a number of years (working abroad) and have recently returned.

My beovision 9 seems to be experiencing a few bugs such as the camera which adjusts the colours not working so suspect it’s on the way out. In anticipation I’m looking for advice on replacing with a second hand B&O set. The beovision is currently connected to a Beosound 9000, Beolab 9’s, Beolab 2 and Beolab 8000’s. The replacement would need to be able to connect and work with this B&O set up.

The budget is probably around £3k.  I’ve searched the forum and have seen that the avant suffers from screen issues and the eclipse generation 1 also has screen anomalies. Any advice greatly appreciated.

[SimonWeir]

Curly wrote:

“I sometimes think having a 5.0 system of Theater + 4x BL17 would be plenty and spectacular.”

Well I have gone further and have a Theatre, 8 x BL17s on WiSA and a BL19 wired, for the full 7.1.4 setup, with the Theatre only pumping out FL, Centre, and FR.  The BL17s cover SL, SR, BL, BR, LFH, RFH, LSH, RSH.

Redirection set on the App:  BL17s all at -9, FL & FR at -24, Centre -6, and BL19 no redirection.  Minimal extra tweaking on db level to get all set to match the Centre at 65 db using first the supplied B&O mic but then supplemented with a laser measure and sound pressure level meter to improve the accuracy further.

Just sounds great.  It makes me smile every time I turn on.  I find reasons to stay in for a movie (I do have and advocate 4K UHD Blu-ray for those special events actual disc trounces streaming there is so much more detail and depth… I have a Panasonic 820 HDMI into the LG so only time cannot use PUC as that’s for Apple TV and Sky Q).  Even better is late at night with the screen turned off listen to my favourite playlist.

I can now stop tweaking and adding more BL17s… started with 1 pair and a BL19 sub with my Avant55 for 5.1; got another set when I moved to the Eclipse 55” Gen1 for 7.1; then another set with moved to Eclipse 55” Gen2, for 7.1.2; and finally changed TV for a 4th time in 10 years to a Theatre 65” LG G2 (but changed 6 months later to a G3 panel) and added my 4th set of BL17s to finally have the full 7.1.4

I am a fan boy of the BL17s.  I am also a fan boy of matching surround speakers with the Theatre.  I recently heard a setup with BL28 and BL18 with a Theatre, admittedly no sub and it was not as balanced as mine… no real hearing of the up firing or surround firing speakers off the Theatre, even after we tweaked to all match to same db.  It proved to me if you do want the full Atmos impact / experience for Movie & Music (I use a Apple 4K latest box hdmi into the Theatre on PUC) most films of Netflix, Prime, Disney, Apple and music through Apple Music are now in Atmos and appreciate actual height speakers, and the BL17s are perfect and 2nd hand a bargain… let people swap for BL8s and fan boys pick up bargains!

Pound for pound… when they launched and now, most versatile speakers in the last 20 years… plus I stand by better sounding than the BL18s… who needs the wood, I listen to, I don’t look at my speakers.

[Toma48]

Hi buddy , spoke to you a while back about eclipse mk1 you got working with different panel you got working , I’m having a hell of a time trying to sync a G4 to my mk1 eclipse . At first it sort of worked as on sound passed thew of but down loading that app didn’t turn it into a b and o tv . I still had to come out the app and on to lg home menus to go into Amazon apple and so . Is this how yours works or have I not don’t it properly . Cheers Thomas

[Mbee]

Feature wise, I’ll be happy to get the display of radio stations and music titles in audio mode like on the Harmony, but at the bottom of the screen instead of the top, when using my Eclipse.

[MathiasMuc]

Hallo zusammen,

ich bin neu in dem Thema und bekomme es irgendwie nicht konfiguriert. Ich besitze einen Beovision Eclipse 65 und ein Apple TV 4k. Wie schaffe ich es nun das Apple TV mit der Beoremote One zu steueren? Habe es in HDMI C als Apple TV 4 eingebunden, aber schaffe es nicht es über die Beoremote One zu steueren.

Vielen Dank

Mathias

[Rolf2]

Hi Jonathan,

I have a BeoSystem 4500 using a BL 11 with two BL 3 for audio output. The 11 is connected to the BM 4500 via PL and from there the BL 3 are connected via PL as well. Works like a charm and is sounding so, so great. I have no experience with the BL 2, but here in the forum (mostly archived forums, I guess) are a lot of opinions available, stating that it is best for movies / blockbuster, whereas the 11 is best for music.

Since a couple of weeks, I am testing a S8 connected to my BV Eclipse (+ BL 18 + BL 4000) and it adds nice bass to the set up.

IMHO, the BL 11 would be a very good solution for your set up.

Kind regards,

Rolf

Location: Germany

Favourite Product: BeoSystem 4500

My B&O Icons:

[Robert]

Hi,

 

I have a Beovision Eclipse 1gen, and it have worked perfectly until two days ago. I turned the TV to my favourite position with the stand, and then the tv suddenly went black and turned on again.

After this, the stand has stopped working.

If I unplug the stand from the Soundcenter, it works one time, and then disappears from both the beoremote and inside the meny on the tv. I have also tried to reboot the tv and unplugged it for a while with no result.

 

Any idea what’s wrong? Can it be a new software that have made the stand gone wrong?

/Robert

 

[SebF]

Hi All,

My parents past on a 1st Gen Eclipse 55 to me and I am having problems with the software. If I click on with the LG app store or BBC Iplayer, the tv just switches off. I have updated the software and tried switching off and on again, but no change.

When in my parents house, the technicians claimed it was a lack of wi-fi signal strength and installed an apple tv box, but I have ethernet cable plugged in, wi-fi connected, and Netflix seems to stream perfectly well.

Any (not too technical) advice please!

[patcherley]

I have a Fire stick Flirc combination controlled by a PUC with my Eclipse. B&O support will probably not understand this, my installers weren’t used to it but I said I had previously trained the Flirc to use a Sony control so they used a generic Sony PUC and it worked fine.

What PUC did you use on the other televisions?

Location: Hampshire

Favourite Product: Beolink 7000

My B&O Icons:

[Hiort]

This is what my BV11 looks like through the Beotool app.

This is the latest version of the software.

Think you need to reach out to a dealer and have them push the update to you.

I had B&O (through my dealer) to do that when I got hold of a Beovision Eclipse with super old software.

However, in this case I do not recall that the BV11 got something special in the latest version, but its of course best to have latest version.

Location: Sweden

My B&O Icons:

[Rolf2]

I use 18s as front and 4000 as rear speakers, the latter are daisy chained. They turn off if I change the profile e. g. from surround to stereo. My Eclipse is a 1st gen.

You say Beolab 9000 as rears, so you mean BL 9?

Kind regards,

Rolf

Location: Germany

Favourite Product: BeoSystem 4500

My B&O Icons:

[Stuart50_1]

Hi

I have some beolab 9 on the back of my system and some 20 at front there driven by a eclipse

the speaker are daisy chained together my question is
When I change audio profiles even though the profile is set up to turn the back speakers off they stay turned on ?
But no sound comes out when the chosen profile is in use.
Should the back speakers stay on even though there is no need or sound coming out ?and the set up says they are turned off /

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[AdamS]

Those are the standard mains suppression capacitors that have been fitted to most electronics since the 1970s. They can fail and, when they do there’s usually a bang and some smoke, but I would have though this TV was far too young for that.

I wonder if this is tied in with a visit we had a year or two back to change out a board on our Beovision Eclipse TV as a “preventative maintenance precaution” due to a potential failure issue that had been identified? As I’m in the UK, our lovely new forum owners, Multicare, contacted us directly and came and did the job for free, but I wasn’t home that day so didn’t find out exactly what it was they changed.

As the TV is fairly recent, I would say that your best port of call initially would be a B&O dealer if you have one nearby.

 

[Stan]

It seems they’re redesigning some of the TV controls. I can no longer move the stand on my Eclipse gen1. They replaced the text option “stand” with a cute icon, but pressing the icon does nothing.  Same with the TV remote control features. Instead of the text “remote control” that took me to screens that allowed me to control my TV similar to the actual beoremote1, I get a cute icon that does nothing. Optimistically, I’m hoping this was a stupid oversight/build error that will be fixed soon. I can’t see them taking these function away since they were working quite well. Then again, you never know the depths to which software may sink.

[Stan]

I’ve finally been hit with a non-working “improvement”.  I’m not in the beta program, but with latest Android release (5.9.0.24…). The TV remote feature no longer works with my Gen1 Eclipse. I also can no longer control the stand. They’ve redesigned the interface so I get a cute little remote icon replacing boring words, but pressing it does nothing.  Similarly, there’s an icon for moving the stand that doesn’t work either. 2 steps forward, 6 steps back..

At least the beoremote1 works, but it is sometimes more convenient to use the app if the remote is not near or lost in the couch.

Then again, aside from Sonos, every one complains about their “smart speaker” apps (e.g. Kef, Klipsch, Naim Muso). Doesn’t mean it’s acceptable, but at least we’re not alone.

[00blue]

Hi there, hoping someone could provide some advice please? I have a Beovision eclipse 55 Mk1 sound centre (just the sound bar, not the tv) and im trying to work out how I can set up speaker groups. I dont have an LG tv (running WebOS) to install the B&O TV app, and I also dont have a Beoremote one. I was hoping to be able to configure speaker groups via the iOS B&O app but that doesnt seem to allow me to configure speaker groups, only switch between different groups. What would be the best approach from here in order to get speaker groups configured on the Sound Centre? Would simply getting a Beoremote one allow me to do this (without an LG tv??).

Many thanks in advance.