Beosound 1 (CD version) data link???

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Posted January 24, 2024 at 16:55 GMT
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Although these units have been around for ages, I never really took much notice of them until seeing one being used in a hotel where we stayed recently.

In the right context it looked and sounded great.  This made me think about getting one (or two!) for home.

I see they have AUX-IN which Steve from Sounds Heavenly has a video demonstrating being used to connect (say) an Airport Express.

I wondered if there's any way this concept could be extended to receiving input from one of Beolink 'black boxes' to received input from a remote ML device.

 
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Posted January 24, 2024 at 18:01 GMT
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I wondered if there’s any way this concept could be extended to receiving input from one of Beolink ‘black boxes’ to received input from a remote ML device.
Well I have had the same thought. The Beolink active has a fixed  audio output of whatever is playing on the ML network according to this post However activation is another thing. For the Beosound 1 to play sound from AUX the tape command has to be used. But when that is used the Beolink active will also switch to that source. Same problem if you wan't to play CD from the Audio master on the ML network. By pressing CD you will also trigger the internal CD in the Besound 1. A work arround could be to put the Beolink active in option 4 so it will only respond to Link + commands. This will of course make for some extra key presses to active both the AUX on the Beosund 1 and the source on the Beolink Active

Location: Denmark

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Madskp
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Posted January 27, 2024 at 07:06 GMT
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I am at my parents now and have the logic analyzer hooked up to pin 6 and 7 on the AUX connector on their Beosound 1.

As might have been expected I don't see any reaction to any commands I try to use on the remote including A.MEM which activates the AUX connection.

So i guess that we can put down any hopes of control options through this connection

Location: Denmark

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Posted January 27, 2024 at 07:08 GMT
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Posted January 27, 2024 at 10:56 GMT
Edited January 27, 2024 at 10:57 GMT
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Posted January 27, 2024 at 11:02 GMT
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Posted January 27, 2024 at 14:31 GMT
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Posted January 27, 2024 at 15:51 GMT
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