Interesting progress!
I was very fortunate to be able to take advantage of a local advert for a Beosound 3000 and pair of BL6000s for… £100. Nice. Once I’d made sure it all worked ok, I tried the Masterlink port:
BS3000 > ML > BL2000
And it worked as I thought ML ought to work! If the BS3000 is on, turning on the BL2000 starts the sound and short press on . turning it off again stops the sound without shutting down the whole system. No Videomaster attached. So I tried:
BS3000 > ML (RJ45) distributor &> BL2000 &> BL Active
And again everything seemed to work as I’d hoped. Short press on . turns either on or off without affecting the others. Long press on any of the three turns everything off. If all three are on, and I short press . on the BS3000, only the BS3000 goes quiet but a CD continues playing through the BL2000 and Active. Incredible! And all without a Videomaster.
So I conclude for now that it’s the presence of the BLC1611 that causes the ‘everything turns off’ problem.
The BS3000 is a lovely thing but the lack of an (ideally datalinked) phono port and only one Aux port brings it’s own problems for my setup. Not quite perfection yet!
Incidentally I’m surprisingly impressed with the sound from the BL6000s. I had expected them to sound a bit thin and reedy but certainly with loudness turned on they’re quite punchy.
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Favourite Product: Beolab 3000
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