Location: Stockholm
Conversion kit Beolab 4000 to Sonos electronics with Trueplay
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Convert your old and maybe broken Beolab 4000 speakers to a Sonos speaker Gen2 with Trueplay for optimal sound and keeping the nice B&O design. The kit include a complete Sonos electronics with special brackets for the Sonos mainboard, antennas, keypad, power supply and damping foam. Just disassemble the old Beolab electronics and install the new Sonos electronics, instructions included. Keypad, LED, network and 230 VAC will be located at back of the speaker, see picture. The original on/off button is replaced by a plug. You will keep the two speakers and the complete casing from the original Beolab 4000, the rest will be new.
Price is 290€ per speaker including freight within EU. I am located in Sweden and ship with Schenker inside EU.
For order or questions please contact me at carlj.hakansson@gmail.com or +46730257474
Regards,
Carl Hakansson
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Very impressive!
how do they sound?
This is a very interesting project.
But what kind of amplifier do you use? Do you use the original B&O soundprofil?
They sound extremely good, I will try to make a comparison with the original and come back. With the Sonos trueplay calibration, the frequency range will be flat.
Location: Stockholm
The kit include an Ikea Symfonisk amplifier and electronics (which is made by Sonos). This consist of a very powerful DSP which will calibrate the Beolab 4000 speakers to a flat frequency spectrum and a multiroom wifi active two way speaker.
Location: Stockholm
So it's basically an 130€ Ikea Symphonisk shelf speaker guts connected to the Beolab 4000 drivers?
I think I've seen the same mod with a Beovox C100 somewhere.
Location: Paris France
Just to be clear, no Beolab 4000 drivers are present. The Beolab 4000 speaker elements are direct connected to the Sonos amplifier and all is 100% integrated in the Beolab 4000 cabinet.
Location: Stockholm
Really? I thought it just listened to the output and calculated a boost as a percentage of the input, i.e. you could be driving cardboard (or flax!) with tubes, for all the DSP algorithm cared. This is how Dirac Live can work inside a MiniDSP DDRC-24 (e.g.): Dirac knows nothing about the speakers or the amp, only what it hears from its microphone input when it sends out a known signal sweep.
And "speaker elements" == "drivers" colloquially so yes, s/he is indeed hooking up the inexpensive Symfonisk amp to the 4000's drivers and bypassing or removing the electronics. BeoWorld description claims 35 watt x 2 (ICEpower version mk.2), and supposedly the amplifier on the Symfonisk speaker is the TI TPA3116D2, a two channels x 30 watts per -- so it could work OK unless you crank the volume up, maybe? [Edit: the DSP will take some headroom too.]
P.S. @carljh, kindly use your first sale to buy a gold membership here, in order to post to sell stuff.
You calibrate the rebuild speaker with Sonos Trueplay which is included in the Sonos app for Iphone and Android. The speaker play a frequency sweep which the phone pick up and adjust the speaker for a flat frequency response.
Location: Stockholm
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