Millemissen wrote:

The line-in of the Playmaker has 'autosense' - which means that it will turn on right away, when the BeoGram (or whatever is connected) is started.

Just be sure that AirPlay/DLNA is not still activated from a former playback.

That is how it works in my setup for years now.

Start your BS9000 as you already do it - with A.MEM - but be sure, that your Playmaker is set to Option 0.Otherweise that would receive the ir-commands as well (A.MEM would initiate AirPlay there).

The volume output of the Playmaker should be set to 'fixed' - and all volume should be controlled via BS9000/Beo4.

MM

That's exactly how my PM and BS9000 are set up. I have a Beogram 3000 tangential run through an outboard phono preamp and into the aux in of the PM, and the PM hooked into my BS9000 aux/tape input. Option and volume set as you say above. Works perfectly, but if you start a wireless playback source, Airplay or DLNA, it takes precedent over the phono/aux input as mentioned.

Hello MM and others,

Almost there ... or maybe it is working as it should now.

I have read through the Danish manual of MM (thanks again), and I have found this topic http://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/5143.aspx on how to set PM in option 0. It is all working and there is sound:-)

However I would like the output of the PM to be a bit louder because now, volume level 20 is different level coming from CD (BS9000) or LP (BG4500)

The fixed volume output, can that somehow we changed? Reading Steve's post (link above) the fixed volme is full?

I appreciate all the feedback guys, it amazes me every time how helpful each one of you is. And thaks Steve for the cable, it arrived within just a couple of days!

Ferdinand

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Hi Ferdinand,

how much difference do you experience?

Often a vinyl is a bit quiter that what comes from most CD's.

I don't have a BeoGram connected to the Playmaker, but the device connected is set to output at line-level and I haven't noticed any major differences in what is coming directly from my BeoSystem or via the Playmaker.

How is the soundlevel, when you AirPlay something?

MM

Hello everyone,

I decided to continue on this since my problem is similar but less complicated (I hope)

I have BS9000 MKIII connected to BV8-40 via ML. I have 2 Penta Active and a BL2 all connected to BV8-40. TV -RADIO-CD all works fine.

I connected my BG4500 to the AUX connection on the BS9000. I press play on the BG45000 and starts playing the record. I press A AUX on the BS9000 and on the BS9000 "screen" but I have NO SOUND from the speakers. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you all in advance!

Spiros.

Hi Ferdinand,

Glad to hear that the cable arrived quickly!  It is normal for Beograms to give a slightly lower volume level than other music sources (they should usually only need one or two pushes of the volume up button to match the level of CD or radio), this seems to be the case with all moving magnet pre-amps (including the original B&O ones built into some Beograms).

It is worth double-checking the level of the PlayMaker, you may be able to slightly increase this above the stored level (from memory, I don't think the PlayMaker lets you store absolute full volume as the default setting).

Kind regards, Steve.

I have always found the 'Installation Guide' for the Playmaker much more useful than the user manual, and it could have helped with some of the setup here (in addition to MM's useful guide).  I thought that there was a copy on the site, but cannot find it.

Here's my copy of the Installation Guide (for the PM Mk1):

Hi Steve,

Hi Spiros,

Glad to hear that all is working!

Kind regards, Steve.