Beolab 50 randomly looses contact with slave speaker

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Hi,

I have had my BL 50 in two month now. During this time the slave speaker has lost its contact 4-5 times randomly. I have changed cat6 cable between the speakers to a Cat7 but no change. 

IS this something software related? Does anyone of you WHO has BL90 or 50 experience this problem randomly from time to time?

 

Best Regards

Martin Ström

Sweden

I have only had my 50s for five days. Have not had any problems.
Yep, Henrik and I both have had that happen and yes seems to be software related

Hi,

great thanks for confirmation. No need to believe that something is wrong with just my speakers:-).

Except for that problem mine Bl50 works very good with the Eclipse.

 

Martin

Mikipidia wrote:
Yep, Henrik and I both have had that happen and yes seems to be software related

You know these speakers,- would it be possible to run two masters in stand alone configuration? One left and one right?

Could you? Yes. Should you? No!!

It would take two cat 7, for l/r channels to both masters, cables and they wouldn’t sinc and you’d loose room comp. It wouldn’t be a speaker pair but seen as two sets of separate sets. So while you can for a single front l/r setup you can end up in a world of hurst and confusion😎

You can have two master connected as sets(with the slaves so to say) but that would be for a surround setup where one master is front (plus slave) and one is in the back/rear(plus slave). That would work. In both situations you’ll have two (sets) of 50’s in the app too and you’ll have to configure them independantly.

Mikipidia wrote:
It would take two cat 7, for l/r channels to both masters, cables and they wouldn’t sinc and you’d loose room comp. It wouldn’t be a speaker

They wouldn't have to sync since the signals arrive at exactly the same time and the processing time is the same!

And if ONE single BL50 can do room compensation the other one can as well! (this is the part i dont know ?)

Do you mean wisa? in that case no.

while wired, my understanding is that they need to work as a pair and the master needs to know what the slave is doing and vice versa. But just give it a try and let us know? I would love to know what happens. I doubt it'll work well if at all, but i guess it could function sort of, but I may be wrong.

I was told to never have two masters on the same plain, as in even if you have 4x bl50's to not have both masters front or rear, but one front and one rear.

 

Mikipidia wrote:

Do you mean wisa? in that case no.

No regular wired,- can you run just the Master?

Forget about the slave for a while,- will the system allow you to setup just the master?

 

Hi Mikipedia,

how often Does it happen for you (loosing contact with slave speaker)?

For me it has happened 6 times in Two month! I dont think that is okey.

Best Regards

Martin 

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