AUX on the BC2 is to get the sound from a source connected to the AUX socket of the black box socket unit. Your BL5 are probably in L.OPT 0, meaning that the digital socket is open through the CD command sent through the Powerlink connection. Of course it is also trying to activate the CD of the BC2 too.

In your case, I would suggest to connect your Apple box to the AUX socket of the BC2, (to avoid switching the L.OPT and A.OPT all the time on the Beo4, and connect a sync cable between the two BL5).

What are you connecting exactly to your BL5 currently ? Airport Express or Apple TV ? They don't have the same output for sound. I assume it is an Airport Express as you did not mention a DAC or toslink to SPDIF converter between your Apple box and the BL5. The output of the Airport Express is sending both Analog and Digital signal, so in that case nothing else to do than just unplug from BL5 to plug to the AUX RCA socket of the BC2 socket unit, and pressing AUX (or A.MEM on the Beo4). 

For Apple TV, you will need additional hardware

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I'm using apple tv with a toslink to a converter from toslink to SPDIF but can do the same with airport express as it has optical digital out also. The analog audio out is not very good quality, but yes works.

If I add a sync cable between the beolab 5's what turns the speakers on and off ?

Ideally I want to use the beocenter 2 for DAB radio source and CD. But also use the Apple TV to stream music.

thanks,

Seedar.

I would suggest you to give a try to set the L.OPT to 4 on the Lab5, it will permit to activate the BL5 only (SPDIF input) with the Beo4 by selecting LINK, and then RADIO.

Sync cable mandatory to sync the volume of the 2 speakers as volume control will be managed directly by the BL5, the BC2 will remain off.

Without the LINK before RADIO, it should activate the DAB of the BC2, and normally should power on the BL5 too. CD should only read the disk in the BC2 (and also activate the BL5 on Powerlink)

Hi Seedar. -

Thanks Oli and Peter for your help ! 🙂

One more question, as I would like to use the digital connection from Apple TV and use the Beolab 5 DAC, if I do that, and change the Beolab 5 option to support that and add the sync cable - Can I still leave the powerlink cables from the Beocenter 2 and use that for DAB ?

thanks !

Seedar.

I tried that last night and the Beolabs by themselves were fine after setting Option 1 but the Beocenter 2 now doesnt respond to the remote at all ? I'll lokk into that a little more maybe I did something silly, haven't really investigated that yet.

Great, thanks. Where are all those settings documented and explained as to what they really do ? The manuals dont explain them.