Interesting progress!
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!
Still you did not prove anything about the T1611.
what you tested was/is common behavior of ML devices. No T1611, no issue…..that is normal!
In the issue original presented the T1611 was an essential necessity to integrate a BM6500 in a ML setup. Then you will have another ballgame.
The T1611 was designed to integrate Non-ML audio with ML-BV – or – Non-ML BV with ML-audio.