Connect to B+O

[Tbudapest]

Hello, I recently bought a vintage Bang and Olufsen Beo 1900 , can I connect my wiim amp to the Beo?

 

[hgo58]

Hello, I recently bought a vintage Bang and Olufsen Beo 1900 , can I connect my wiim amp to the Beo?

They are both amplifiers, so what do you want to connect?

 

[spareflyer]

Beo 1900 ? If its a turntable is it a Beogram 1900?

 

[Tbudapest]

I guess a stupid question, but wanted to use the wiim streaming to play through beo amp. Guess I need to buy a wii pro instead for the beo amp?

 

[Tbudapest]

Beo 1900 not a turntable

 

[Tbudapest]

Beomaster 1900

 

[harkpabst]

I guess a stupid question, but wanted to use the wiim streaming to play through beo amp. Guess I need to buy a wii pro instead for the beo amp?

You are right, a WiiM Mini, WiiM Pro, WiiM Pro Plus or WiiM Ultra would be the better choice here (depending on your needs).

As far as I can tell the Beomaster 1900 only provides one single "high level" input (and output), which is the tape input. You will need a matching adapter cable from 3.5 mm jack (TRS) to 5 pin DIN plug (WiiM Mini) or from RCA to 5 pin DIN plug (all other WiiM streamers).

Also, this input is very sensitive. You will have to reduce the output voltage of the WiiM streamer to 100 mV (or the closest low value) through the WiiM Home app. Otherwise the WiiM output coul overdrive the Beomaster's tape input.

 

[Tbudapest]

Thanks very much, extremely helpful!

 

[harkpabst]

Thanks very much, extremely helpful!

In theory, you could also connect your WiiM Amp to an external DAC through USB and feed the output from that DAC into the Beomaster 1900.

Technically, such an external DAC should have a configurable output voltage. Modern devices typically put out 2 Vrms or more for a full scale digital signal. That's no good match with the highly sensitive input of the 1900 (0.1 Vrms for full power with the volume set to max). This would at least result in a very small usable range of the volume control and could worst case drive the tape input into clipping.

If this makes sense economically (when a WiiM Mini is available for ~100 EUR) is up to you.

 

[slartibartfast]

In theory, you could also connect your WiiM Amp to an external DAC through USB and feed the output from that DAC into the Beomaster 1900.

Technically, such an external DAC should have a configurable output voltage. Modern devices typically put out 2 Vrms or more for a full scale digital signal. That's no good match with the highly sensitive input of the 1900 (0.1 Vrms for full power with the volume set to max). This would at least result in a very small usable range of the volume control and could worst case drive the tape input into clipping.

If this makes sense economically (when a WiiM Mini is available for ~100 EUR) is up to you.

Or just use the WiiM Amp and leave the B&O on display as an ornament

 

[Tbudapest]

Thanks again, will give it some thought!

 

[spareflyer]

B&O are weird, the turntables have a low output cartridges and most of the amps are matched to 4ohm skrs which is ok if you have all B&O but they are difficult as seperates. My first turntable was a Beogram 1000 which was a thing of beauty but it was low on volume with my Sony amp.

 

[Tbudapest]

Thanks for the input, I understanding the complexity with the beonaster but always wanted to own one , very beautiful design.