Connect Beolink Passive to Computer to play music with passive speakers

Hi all,

Is this possible?

I want to use a pair of CX50's to play my music from my desktop pc. Therefore I want to use the aux-input on the passive with a minijack to aux-cable (the standard iPod-cable, which goes from my soundcard to the passive).

Can I control the volume with iTunes or do I need an IR-eye? (have several of them)

Normally it works with a receiver between the pc and speakers, but I want to use the passive only.

I'm looking forward to your reactions and advices before connecting anything and that nothing will be damaged.

Thanx in advance!

Steve at sounds heavenly has a cable with power supply that turns on an MCL2P (a passive unit with no IR eye) and CX100s My son has it connected to an iPhone and use it for volume control. It works very well

http://soundsheavenly.co.uk/bando-beolinkpassive.htm

I have a passive set up as a stand alone amp for my computer.

I use an MCL2AV to provide the passive input via powerlink.  The computer then connects to the MCL2AV using a standard 3.5mm to DIN aux lead.  You will also need to connect an IR eye to the MCL2AV to switch it on/off.  I use an old MCL2 IR-sensor (because it works 2-way with my MCP5500) but you could probably use a newer sensor.

The computer is thus connected to one of the two DIN inputs on the MCL2AV, in my case 'CD'.  I select this using SHIFT RADIO  7 (or AUX 7).  This leaves me one spare input which is selected with SHIFT RADIO 6.

There is also a method using a Beolink Active with a 'PC' input - see here http://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/p/1699/14461.aspx#14461