Beolab 3000 and BV7-40 mk5 compatibility

[pepps]

Hello,

I recently bought a fabulous Beocenter 9500 and a pair of Beolab 3000.

The seller kindly included all cables and demonstrated the system to me – all in tip top working order.

I drove home and set up the BL’s as rears connected by the same supplied powerlink cables to my BV7.

A hum emitted from one speaker and no display action at all.

I connected the BL’s to the 9500 and they worked perfectly again.

I’m curious if the displays can work while connected to a BV because there isn’t a switch on the rear to select ‘audio’ or ‘video’.

I have experimented with 3 different cable types: 1 from B&O dealer in Canterbury (since closed) which was a fully wired cable I use normally to drive my Pentas. 2 from Steve at Sounds Heavenly – a fully wired cable I also use to drive my Pentas. 3 the cable supplied by the seller.

All 3 cables will send music and display data from the BC9500 to the BLs but I can’t get displays working from the Beovision.

One thing I have not yet tried is to daisy chain the Pentas and the BL 3000s and run them from a single PL socket on the BV.
Would that even be possible?

If anyone can confirm if displays do or do not work with a BV7 that would be a start. Any other advice to help solve the problem will be gratefully received 🙂

Location: Kent, UK
Favourite Product: Beosystem 6500
My B&O Icons:

[pepps]

pepps wrote:

Beolab 3000 and BV7-40 mk5 compatibility

Sorry for the double post – admins please delete one of these 👍

Location: Kent, UK
Favourite Product: Beosystem 6500
My B&O Icons:

[Rolf2]

pepps wrote:

I’m curious if the displays can work while connected to a BV because there isn’t a switch on the rear to select ‘audio’ or ‘video’.

The switch on the rear side selects PL or Line-in. Behind the display on the right side is a switch to select „Audio, Video or Off“.

If anyone can confirm if displays do or do not work with a BV7 that would be a start. Any other advice to help solve the problem will be gratefully received 🙂

I have no BV 7, but I guess the MK V is based on the BeoSystem 3? I have a BeoSystem 9500 and a BeoSystem 3, using Beolab 5000 front and Beolab 3000 as rears together. Both systems are connected to the speakers through Oneremote Powerlink switches, one switch per pair. Each pair is daisy chained. Beolab 10 and Beolab 11 are connected to the BeoSystem 3 exclusively.

The displays are working flawlessly with both of the systems. But: The switches have to be set to „Audio“ or „Video“, depending which system is providing the source.

Would be happy if this helps.

Kind regards,

Rolf

Location: Germany
Favourite Product: BeoSystem 4500
My B&O Icons:

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