Integrate BeoSound 9000 CD player to Chromecast and BeoLab 8000 speakers to AVR

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potatoxbe Posted: Wed, Jul 7 2021 3:20 PM

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Apologies if this have been asked before, appreciate your input on this. Quite new to the B&O ecosystem. I've just been passed down with a BeoSound 9000 CD player with BeoLab 8000 speakers from the early 2000s. 

For the speakers, I'm looking to integrate it into my existing home theater setup with AVR. Understand that these are active speakers. Is there a way to connect this passively, through just speaker wires to my AVR? Would be great if I can just connect speaker wires through it, without another cable going to the power outlet as with passive speakers.

As for the CD player, I have Google Home mini speakers set up throughout the house. Would be great if there's a solution to cast audio from the CD player to various speakers throughout the house. 

Help is much appreciated. Cheers.

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ebnrob replied on Thu, Jul 8 2021 12:29 PM

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The 8000's have a phono line input on the back, you could use this to connect to your AVR if it has line outs for each channel. 

I'm not aware of a way to distribute a line-in over chromecast, i recently bought an Amazon Echo Link which has a line in but I haven't got round to seeing if it can be distributed to other alexa's yet though - probably not possible.

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potatoxbe replied on Fri, Jul 9 2021 3:01 PM

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Thanks for the feedback. 

I have found the solution for casting the CD player to chromecast enabled speakers. Involves raspberry pi with usb dac, and installing icecast, darkice and pychromecast if anyone's interested in doing the same. Works quite well.

As for the speakers, was hoping to not use the line out since I have regular speaker wires already set up. Searched through threads here with links to products from Sounds Heavenly, though site seems to be down. Seems like I need high end cables and attenuated Converter. But since I can't access the site, have no idea what those are. Hope someone can help me.