A way to test the BS4 is to set it in opt 1 and connect it to your Bl3500 and see if that will work together

I got it working - it must be my ML wiring, which is a bit complicated behind all the furniture!  I connected the Beosound 4 direct to the Beosystem 3 with an ML cable, and they work fine together in Opt.0 and Opt.2 respoectively.

So, if I sort out my ML cabling and junction boxes, I think I should be able to have the Beosound 5 in the ML network too, as an A.Slave.

I'll miss being able to control my Beogram 9500 by remote, but I think the BS4 and BS5 look good together, so I think I'll connect the BG9500 to the BS4 using my phone stage.  I have a phono stage that can also be switched between phono and another aux line level input, so I think I'll plug my old Chromecast Audio into that too, then I can use that for Deezer (rather than Spotify - I use Deezer because I also have a BS Moment).

Too late tonight to do all the wiring, but I'll let you know if it works when I try it!

Before you tidy the wirering to much you might want to check how the BS4 and BS5 behave togheter with the overlapping commands

Just did a little test with my Beossound 5 (AM = NO), Beocenter 2 (opt. 0) and Beocenter 6-23 Tv (opt. 2).

This seems to work, although the first time I selected N.music I had to activate it manually on the BS5 buttons after I had activated the source with the remote (which did activate the BC2, BC6 and got the picture showing on the BS5). The controls might not be optimal, and as mentioned earlier I have yet to see an official setup guide for this combination, so might not be a fully supported scenario.

One issue that came up while testing, and might only be related to a failure in my system: at one point the music started to be scratching like a bad radio signal and after that I never got the music playing again, although still having full control of the BS5 with the remote.

Excellent - it's working!

First I tried the Beosound 4 in Opt.1 and the Beosound 5 set so it was not the Audio Master, and I connected a pair of my Beolabs direct to the Beosound 4.  That worked fine.

I then connected the Beosystem 3 into the same ML network via a junction box, changed the Beosound 4 to Opt.0, and the Beosystem 3 remained in Opt.2.  It all works fine, and I'm also impressed with the fact that my Beosound 4 display show the metadata for the digital music that is playing.

I've also figured out how to get 2-way communication between the Beosound 5 and my Beo6 remote.  It only worked briefly before it ran the battery down, but it worked!

So, I cannot use the Beosound 5 for Spotify as that only works if it is an Audio Master, but that's fine - I can live without that.  I wouldn't mind getting N.Radio working but I have still not figured out how to get the BS5 connected online, even though it is successfully connected into my home network (wired).  I'll figure it out eventually though.

As ever, thanks for all the invaluable help, Madskp.

Hello, I just found my way to BeoWorld forum and I would like to download BM5 ServiceTool but somehow it does not work:

clicking on the download link I am redirected to Microsoft OneDrive an then there ist a dead end.

So far I always  could download into my local downloads folder, but somehow this does not work here.

 

I already have an older BM5 servicetool and want to clone the HDD and seek advice how to connect the old (leave installed in the original mounted place?) and the new HDD (connect via splitter cable and power to SATA 2 on mainboard?).

Thank you for Your attention

Uwe Bötel

Is spotify working again on the beosound 5? I thought it died many years ago

Is this link still active ? i get an error when trying to access

Hi there,

Could it be possible that the link you've included is not available anymore? I'd like to see if it would be possible to change the HD for an SSD on my Beomaster 5?

greetz,

 

Joris