Rear Speakers with a Beovision 10-40

Can anyone tell me how to use the Beovision 10-40 with its own speakers and rear speakers (beolab 4000`s)? The menu seems to require front speakers selected and recognised before highlighting a rear speaker choice... Paul

I don't own a BV10 but assuming BV's operate in a similar way:

on your BEO4, 'speaker' 5 should do it, assuming that they are connected to the 'rear speakers' connections.

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Dave.

It seems to be the problem that Paul can't configure the rears before the fronts are configurated (therefore Speaker 5 won't help).

How about choosing 'some' speakers in the menu (knowing that they are not connected), and then chooce your BL4000 as rears.

After that you would have to choose Speaker 5 as default for video (and Speaker 4 as default for audio).

That would make the BV10 speakers into a center channel, though.

(Or simply configure the BL4000 as frontspeakers although they are located in the back.

That would be 'video/default 3' and 'audio/default 2' - or as you please.

I must admit that it seems a bit odd wanting to have 'the fronts' behind you ).

 

MM

On Bv10, you must have front speakers before you can add rears. This is because the surround sound module is designed to either have center and front speakers, or center front and rear speakers - i.e. 3.1 or 5.1 sound. (Or of course center channel only or stereo or stereo front and rear.). If you told the TV you have fronts and rears, but you don't actually have fronts, a lot of the sound would be sent to the front speaker connections, so you would not be able to hear what you should. Basically, what you are looking to do can't be done on a BV10.

The BV11 chassis is a whole different ball game as you can then take any speaker and make it anything you like, and Geoff Martin's True Image technology will make it sound as good as it could be based on the speaker configurations.

Well -  MartinW might be right on that!

I never tried it - that configuration doesn't really make sense, imo.

MM

Had the same issue with bv5 and setting bl6000 , as stated had to set them as front but have them at the rear and set spkr3 when using audio thru bs3000, not the best but until I can make my wife see that we need a set of 8000's at the front it will do :-)

thanks for all the comments - the answer is as suggested, plug rear into the front output and either have tv speakers or external speakers, slightly dull.

Further on to that I have selected speaker 3 for both video and audio options to get the tv speakers and the BL4000`s together - happy with that!