Beogram 5500 to Kanto YU5 speaker set up help

[Emma Kitley]

Could anyone please help me – trying to connect a B&O Beogram 5500 record player to Kanto speakers. Have attached a photo of the set up; 7 pin din to rca cable > pre-amp > speaker. Faint sound coming from record player itself so that seems to be working, but no sound out of speaker! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Hello Emma, you have an active speaker, so you need additional Line Level Booster connected between your preamp and your speaker, see attached photo for a proven one, from Nobsound (Douk Audio).

Kind regards, Nebojsa

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Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Emma Kitley]

Thank you so much!

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Hi Emma, have you tried connecting your turntable directly to the speakers?

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Emma Kitley]

I did try this initially, but no luck, and after some research it appeared that the 5500 doesn’t have a pre-amp built in so others had bought an external one…

[Emma Kitley]

I have read that I might need a specific Beogram DIN to phono cable? But not sure why that would be…

[YannChris]

Wrong post, sorry.

Regards,

Yann.

Location: Brittany, France
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[Emma Kitley]

I bought a line level booster but unfortunately this hasn’t worked, still just receiving static…

[YannChris]

Dear Emma,

Your pre-amp seems to be the same as one sold by Sounds Heavenly.

If yes, you might ask Steve’s help to solve your problem.

A few questions to help your investigations:

• I noticed on your picture that the pre-amp’s LED is orange, isn’t it a warning (check the user guide)?
• Do your speaker work with another source plugged in the RCA inputs?
• Did you select the RCA input with the input selector of your speaker (it does not seem to automatic)?
• Looking at the YU5 user guide, this speaker has optical inputs that I don’t see on your picture. Are you sure yours is a YU5?
• Is the turntable’s cartridge correctly plugged on the reading arm?

If you have another product with RCA inputs, you could connect the pre-amp out to this product.

Kind regards,

Yann.

Location: Brittany, France
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[Mark-sf]

You need a Phono DIN adapter cable to go into your preamp such as this one: https://www.av-connection.com/?PNo=AV-DINPHONO&gad_source=1. The one you’re using is likely connected to the wrong pins and also needs the ground wire.

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

The speaker in your photo seems to be just Kanto YU, basic model, so does not have input type selector…

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Steve sells the SubZero PPA-2 preamp with input gain and monitor level controls.

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Hi Emma, I sympathize with you at this moment, as I imagine you are overwhelmed with responses and suggestions! Nevertheless, your first thing to eliminate is the DIN5/7-to-RCA cable, as  where everything starts (or ends) is literally in the pinout compatibility from the BG5500 DIN5/7 plug to the corresponding female DIN5/7 plug on a DIN-to-RCA cable. So, either Sounds Heavenly (Beogram to non-B&O device phono preamp, amplifier, receiver, with internal ground link) or AV Connection (AV-advance B&O turntable adapter) cable should work, as both are specificaly wired to work with any Beogram turntable. Do note, again, that Sounds Heavenly cable does not come with a separate ground wire next to the two RCA’s, so is pre-wired to make it compatible with any non-B&O device, because not every preamp or amp/receiver comes with a ground terminal to connect to…

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

Hello Emma, I need to clarify once again! Sorry if I was confusing you. As I had already said on Sep 17th, your best bet is to get the correct DIN-to-RCA cable, then go through your RIAA preamp to your speakers, as they do have an amplifier built-in. This should simply work…

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[Emma Kitley]

Hi Yann, Mark and Nebojsa,

Thank you so much for your continued help an invaluable – I am so appreciative! Apologies for my slow response, I am juggling trying to get this record player to work, while caring for my newborn baby!

In the first instance I have bought a new DIN to RCA cable from Sounds Heavenly as it does seem that B&O pins are wired differently – fingers crossed this works… will keep you posted!

Thanks so much again, Emma

[Nebojsa Jankovic]

😀 Make it work, so your baby will take it over and enjoy it

Location: Eindhoven, NL
Favourite Product: Beogram 4002/04, Beocenter 7007, Beosound 6000/02

[YannChris]

You are welcome, Emma.

Location: Brittany, France
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[Mark-sf]

Emma Kitley wrote:

In the first instance I have bought a new DIN to RCA cable from Sounds Heavenly as it does seem that B&O pins are wired differently – fingers crossed this works… will keep you posted!

Thanks so much again, Emma

Emma, if you get sound but have a hum using the Sounds Heavenly cable, return it and get one that has a separate ground wire that you connect to the thumb screw on your phono preamp. I included an example in my previous reply.

[Emma Kitley]

So happy to report that with the new DIN to RCA cable from Sound Heavenly, the record player works! Luckily there doesn’t appear to be any extra hum, (thank you Mark for the suggestion though)

 

Thank you so much to everyone for all your help – I never ever would’ve gotten it working if it weren’t for you all!

 

While playing records today, we got some smiles from our son ❤️

[YannChris]

Great! 👍

Happy for you, Emma.

Kind regards,

Yann.

Location: Brittany, France
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