Beolab 8000 vs Beolab Penta Line-in trouble.

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Leif Posted: Sun, Sep 15 2013 10:12 PM

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Hi dudes
I'm in trouble connecting my televison, Samsung D8005, to a pair BL 8000 using headphone out and Line-in. 
Working perfect with no problems when connecting to a pair BL Penta. 

Trying the same to BL8000 - no sound at all.

The cables are just the same and connect wery well to the 8000 acc. to my thumb touch.

The Pentas are MK1 and so are the BL 8000 ( type 6801 s/n. higher than 101459xx).

Anyone here with a good hint?

(And of course I don't know anything about the headphone out specs).

Best regards, Leif
(Only changing to please my wifes wish about the visual look).

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tournedos replied on Mon, Sep 16 2013 12:03 PM

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Just no sound, or speakers not turning on at all (what colour is the power LED)?

You do have the speaker switch turned to phono / line...?

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Leif replied on Mon, Sep 16 2013 4:54 PM

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Sure they are turned on

Leds are red when off and go green when on.

Switch turned to line-in - yes!
Works well from my BM6500 via Powerlink. Humble a lot with one of my thumbs - what ever no. I tried  at the line-in cable.

I'm thinking about something like wrong impedance... 
My Pentas act perfect in same connections.

Will try some other source at the line-in.....

/Leif

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tournedos replied on Mon, Sep 16 2013 5:45 PM

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OK

If you get a loud hum when touching the source end of the cable, everything should be fine as far as that.

Must be something odd at the source end. Some devices have "clever" auto sensing features that turn outputs on only when they think that something is connected to them, so it could have something to do with the input impedance of the speaker as you say.

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Leif replied on Sun, Sep 22 2013 9:36 AM

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Hi

You were into something good.

It's solved.

Just a such stupid thing that my TV turn down volume for headphones when none is connected - really silly behaivor

So everything works again as good as a Samsung can do......

Thanks for the replies in this thread

/Leif

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tournedos replied on Sun, Sep 22 2013 3:21 PM

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Leif:

Just a such stupid thing that my TV turn down volume for headphones when none is connected - really silly behaivor

I've had a similar problem with a computer TV card that disabled the video output if nothing was connected to it when you booted up - I can't imagine what good the designers were thinking that would do. That's why I thought of this.

Glad you got it working