beolab 6000 vs beolab 14

Hi

i am new to the forum and apologize if this question repeats any previous threads. I couldnt find anything which directly covered this.

I am fairly savvy with AV topics but not at all with B&O's unique setups.

 

I have a very nice Samsung TV which i am very happy with. Thats is the features and the picture. The sound however is atrocious. It is the Samsung ua48h8000.

I would ideally like to connect some beolab 6000's to the line out, however the line out on the TV has no volume control. That leads to buying an AV receiver to do the volume control but then it needs to be a relatively expensive unit with pre-outs. Then im sure i woudl want a 5:1 setup and need some rears and a centre speaker. By the time I've got that I fear i may have a complicated setup that the wife will reject (has happened before). Our viewing needs have now been simplieifed with Chromecast and AppleTV being about 90pct of what we watch. THis is why I woudl just like to output sound from the TV directly to the speakers without having to run all the inputs thru an AV receiver.

by the time i do all this, im probably in the same price range as the Beolab 14 with the subwoofer (which i believe controls the surround sound cabling distribution). Can i get by with a very basic AV receiver to drive this?

 

how will the Beolab 14 setup compare to the Beolab 6000's?

 

 

Hi

The beolab 14 can be used with non b&o tv as probably the new beoplay s8, so you should be able to use it with your samsung tv and av receiver.

I love the bl6000 but you would need four bl6000 and a separate sub if you want to compare it to a bl14.

I have the beolab 14s in the 2.1 configuration, i was able to connect it to my tvs pre-out section via a cable from sounds heavenly its the RJ45 powerlink to twin phono cable which is this one to be exact.

http://www.soundsheavenly.co.uk/bando-rj45rca.htm

if you didn't want a av receiver then there's a dac which I'm planning on upgrading to at a later date which ticks a lot of boxes as it has an hdmi input and out, optical in and out, as well as coaxial in and out with a usb input as well as being very compact.

It also has the ability to control active speakers which you would connect any of b&0s latest speakers to via the left and right outs on the dac. It also comes with a remote control for switching between sources and supplying volume to the speakers.

The dac in question is called the  CYP AU-250 it retails for £439

http://www.cypeurope.com/store/store/app/product/AU-D250/CYP-AU-D250-Advanced-Digital-Audio-Converter-

You can connect a host of periferals to it and i'm planning on getting one which i'll be connecting my beolab 14s to.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanks very much for that..i imagine pricewise the four Beolab 6000's and a sub are not far off the price of the BL 14. So i woudl probably go for the efficiency and warranty of the newer setup (unless someone tells me the 6000's are streets ahead!(

thank you

thank you..thats interesting. So i coudl theoreticaly plug the BL 14 into the TV using the audio pre-outs which would likely have volume control from the actual TV (which is what I want; the less equipment the better is my wife's credo).

I'm starting to be swayed in this direction; the previous reply also indicated the BL 14 was a better way to go...

 

thank you

My tv is a loewe which differs a bit in terms of control, my tv has the ability to control active speakers by telling the tv that I'm using a speaker system in its menu.

from there I set the distances and frequency range of the speaker I'm using which after that's done enables me to use the tvs remote control to output volume to the speakers used.

my tvs pre-out sockets differ a lot as i can hook up centre rears and sub in that section as my TV has Dolby digital dts decoder built in.

if you didn't go the dac or receiver route I'm sure you can still use the RJ45 to phono cable with an adapter which i also have that has left and right sockets on one end with a 3.5mm jack on the other end.

The RJ45 cables phono left and right plugs go into the left and right sockets of the adapter with the 3.5mm jack end going to the headphone socket on your samsung.

From there you should be able to set the volume