4x Beolab 18 speakers, 1 Beolab 19 sub, Transmitter 1, Beoconnect Core

[Joseph Santo]

Hi all,

Brand new to this forum! I’ve been attempting to figure out an issue for a customer of mine.

My customer has 4 Beolab 18 speakers, 1 Beolab 19 sub, a single Beolab Transmitter 1, and 1 Beoconnect Core.

I was able to connect a pair of speakers and the subwoofer and it sounded great. What my customer would like to do is connect a second pair of speakers to the same Transmitter 1. He has a large room and wants 2 18s on one side of the room as left channel speakers and 2 speakers on the right side of the room as right channel speakers.

The speakers themselves are connected using WISA from the Transmitter 1. The Beoconnect core is connected via 1 Powerlink cable. Powerlink port on the Core to the PL1 on the Transmitter 1.

Is this possible? When I’ve connected the second pair of speakers, according to the documentation it connects the second pair as surrounds. What I essentially want is 2 pairs of stereo speakers.

I know I could purchase another Core and Transmitter 1 and then group these 2 separate pairs in the B and O app. If that is the route we have to go, I can suggest it to my customer.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Joe

[tph]

Because you’re just looking to do 2x left channel and 2x right channel, what might actually be the simplest solution is to add a Power Link splitter between the Beoconnect Core and the Transmitter. This way you can just connect the resulting two Power Link outputs – both carrying left and right channels – to the corresponding inputs for each pair of speakers on the Transmitter.

In any case I advise against adding a second Core and second Transmitter – you would have to group these using Beolink Multiroom, which does not guarantee nearly tight enough sync for your application.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by tph.

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[Joseph Santo]

To follow up:

What I tried was the powerlink splitter to do exactly what you described in your post. This did not work as the 2nd pair of speakers connected over WISA still output the sound as surrounds.

What I ended up doing was getting second used Transmitter 1. Using the powerlink splitter from the core to PL1 port on EACH transmitter 1. Each transmitter 1 has a pair of speakers paired over WISA. This ended up working and the sound is really nice and stays in sync.

Now I need to fix the wifi in the room as the Core has a weak wifi connection and is intermittent.

I appreciate your message. Thank you!

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by Joseph Santo.

[mbolo01]

I had almost the same setup you are looking for, i.e. 1x Core, 1x TR1, 2x BL18, 2xBL8000 with RCV1 and 1xBL 19.

To play stereo only (2.1), I modified the WPLSETUP.txt as per the installation guide (see excerpt below), initially to use the TR1 a a WISA switch but which ended to have 4 x speakers in stereo placed at the four corners of the room, sweet spot right in the middle.

<b>Expanded use for stereo setup (2.0 and 2.1) with BeoLab Transmitter 1</b>

If the BeoLab Transmitter 1 is used for stereo setup (2.0 or 2.1), it is possible to connect up to 4 different Power Link sources to the BeoLab Transmitter 1 and then use the same speakers for all the different Power Link sources.
The BeoLab Transmitter 1 will act as a Power Link switch box, where PL1 has highest priority. If the source connected to PL1 is not playing, the source connected to PL2 can be used and so on. If Subwoofer is connected, set the SUB 2.1 switch to ON.

To activate multiple Power Link sources do as following:

• –  Insert an empty USB memory stick into USB A connector
• –  Switch on the product
• –  Read out the file WPL_DUMP.txt in WordPad on your PC

  Example of readout:

                            ;WPL-TX (svn:5349:5360M) Current settings:
  

                            RCA impedance:HIGH
                            RCA triggerlevel:200
                            RCA timeout:900
                            TOSLink timeout:1
                            RCA and TOSLink gain:-3
                            ALWAYS ON:TRUE
                            MULTIPLE PL SOURCES:FALSE
  

  You can now change the value to: MULTIPLE PL SOURCES:TRUE.
  After changing your setting, rename the file to WPLSETUP.txt.
  Insert the USB memory stick into the USB A connector. The USB memory stick must remain in the USB A socket for at least 10 seconds to ensure all logging dumped after WPLSETUP.txt file is detected.

 

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