Beosound 8 won't power up..

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MediaBobNY Posted: Fri, Apr 28 2017 5:31 PM

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I've acquired a beautiful but dead-as-a-doornail Beosound 8.  Has anyone else experienced this?  Was the problem something simple such as a fuse or bad connection with power plug?   Or something above my pay grade such as replacing the power supply?   And how do you open this thing up?

Thanks in advance..

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Opman replied on Fri, Apr 28 2017 10:39 PM

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Hi 

It is possible the dock connector is damaged/faulty. This would cause the BeoSound 8 to not wake up when you dock a device to it.

You could try using the aux line in (2 x phono sockets) and connect to the head phone socket of something. It may well be that te power supply is ok and the BeoSound 8 will spring into life when you play music through the aux socket.

If that is the case, you could consider connecting an Airport express and using Airplay instead of docking your device.

Opman

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MediaBobNY replied on Sat, Apr 29 2017 12:27 AM

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So embarrassed.  I figured the mere act of plugging it in would cause a standby light to go on.  Nope.  But the minute I connected my PC to it it sprang to life.

Thanks all!