Connecting a BeoMaster 5500 to a Beolab 2 subwoofer and Beolab 3 speakers

[Chris Williams]

Hi, I’m going through a bunch of B&O equipment. We have a BeoSound 9000 CD Tower hooked up to a pair of beolab 9 speakers, as well as a Beogram 5500 turntable and a Beocord 5500 cassette deck.

All that’s working, my problem is getting the Beomaster 5500 which uses an earlier generation sound connector to hook up to the Beolab 2 subwoofer (and from then on to Beolab 3 speakers.) I have the cables to go from the subwoofers to the speakers.

I’ve Been told I need a seven pin to eight pin DIN cable. Where can I obtain one, and will it work?

Any help will be appreciated, thank you so much.

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[AdamS]

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[Chris Williams]

I checked his website, and he was shut down for the holiday. Is there a source in the United States, where I’m located?

Alternatively, I make most of my own cables, so if someone had a pinout, I could source the DIN connectors locally and make the cable I need.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Chris Williams.
• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Chris Williams.

[TK]

I don’t know that Sounds Heavenly sells to anyone outside of Europe, just based on his site.  It does sound like you have a few skills with a soldering iron, so you will likely be able to fashion something together that will work.

I have a topic that touched on some of the information you seek, which likely could benefit from a bit more clarity on how to accomplish the task of adding Powerlink to a BM5500.  There are other discussions as well. I’ve included the link below.

Do you have any unused source receptacles on your BM5500, apart from Phono? If yes, then you’ll have access to pretty the audio and control signals you need to make a Powerlink output – although I have not researched whether the “sensor on” pin will work as a “power on” signal. There may be one or two signals that will require you to add a jumper cable to the BM5500 I/O board in order to have it work properly.

The process I was considering in order to prototype the Powerlink output was as such:

1. Buy a fully wired Din-8 cable
2. Remove one end plug
3. Strip back the cable cover 6-12″
4. Attach pins to all the individual wire ends (using barrel-style contact pins from Amazon)
5. Insert the individual ends into the appropriate pin locations on the BM5500
6. See what happens

I’ll give this a try next week and post results on the thread below, with the exact pin-outs that I used.

Beomaster 5500 upgrade to BM 6500 ports

 

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