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Hi, I am new to the forum and B&O products in general.
I recently purchased a used Beosound 4 and all has been working well until I tried to use the Aux inputs with an iphone. The left channel is absolutely fine, however the right gives a distorted and what appears to be amplified output. I've done a bit of troubleshooting with speaker and cable combinations, plus works perfectly with CD, radio etc so I'm sure the fault lies with the right aux jack.
Any of you had similar experiences or have an idea what it could be and how to fix it? I'm a bit wary of opening up the unit, although would give it a go if pointed in the right direction of where to start!!
Many thanks
Paul
Do you have something/a device at home, that you could connect with a phono L/R cable at both ends?
If yes, please try that - and then swap the left to right input/BS4 etc to see what happens.
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Have you had a play around with the L/R 'balance' settings on your iPhone? For some reason they are under the settings, 'General' and then 'Accessibility' menu - scroll down towards the bottom and you'll see the slider.
Hi MM,
Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I have plugged a blue ray player with individual L/R phono cables at both ends and the sound is the same (if I swap the output from the BR player the sound remains the same on the right speaker, a static sounding treble heavy and amplified screeching! You can make out the audio that is trying to be played however it's not pretty!
I have the Beosound 4 connected to a pair of Beolab 4000's and if I set the switch on both of these to L both speakers are good, if I set either to R the distortion happens in whichever is designated as R.
So setting both speakers as L is a work around however I fear I will be missing quite a bit of detail in stereo tracks.
Does that all make sense?!
Thanks again
Hi Guy,
Great suggestion, I wasn't aware of the ballance setting in the iphone menu. I gave it a go, if I pulled the balance almost all the way across to R, the volume reduced in the right speaker and the clarity improved a little (if output volume was kept on phone at about 50%. Only trouble being the L speaker is way louder so in practice can hardly hear the right!
Thanks again for the suggestion though, it is an improvement of sorts.
cuisine: Does that all make sense?!
Hmmmm - I could not believe this.
If everything else plays fine, it really seems that the input port is faulty - probably a loose connection.
Something that you can only determine by opening the unit, I fear.
At least I have no other suggestion.
By the way - welcome to Beoworld.