Hi and welcome to Beoworld.

A NL/ML Converter won’t be of any help in your setup.

That converter is basicly a bridge between NL and ML product - you have no NL products in the setup.

ML systems are based on a Master and one (or more) slaves.

Therefore you can only use the Master/yourBS9000 once at the time.

Your conclusion is right ——- with one pair of rainboots only one person at the time can take a walk on a rainy day ;-)

There are however, a few exceptions from this = the BS4 and the BC2 - but that won’t help you!

Hi Rob,

Welcome to Beoworld!  Basically, you have two options if you want to link the non-B&O TV and the Beosound:-

1) Connect the TV and all of the Beolab speakers to the Beosound music system for stereo sound through all speakers, with volume control from the B&O remote, or

3) Use the existing AV receiver (ideally this would be one with pre-out sockets but that isn't essential) to allow all of the speakers to be connected for full surround sound with control from the receiver remote control.  In this case, the Beosound can link to the receiver to share the speakers.

For either of these setups, a Masterlink cable will give you music from the Beosound to the B&O products in the other rooms: 

Thanks for the reply MM.

I presume if I had a NL b&o TV and the NL converter, the TV would be able to play CDs from the BS 9000? Would the remote ML speakers be able to play the TV source? I also want to add in a Chromecast Audio, in that set-up would it go into the AUX of the BS9000 or the AUX of the NL/ML converter? 

Many thanks,

Rob.

Thanks for the advice Steve, I was in touch with via email last month re ML cable :) I think what I will do for now is link the BS9000 to the receiver via digital coax and masterlink it to the other ML products. Are you saying the beolab 8000 speakers could be connected to the denon A/V receiver? Just checked and it does indeed have pre-outs. It also has a switched A/C outlet rated max 1000W.

Rob.

Hi Rob,

Yes, you can link the Beolab 8000 speakers to the pre-out sockets of the receiver with these cables, this way you will get surround sound (with four or more speakers) rather than just stereo sound if they are connected to the Beosound:-

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The Beosound can link to the digital audio input of the receiver with a co-axial cable to play CDs through the speakers:-

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The other B&O products around the house can link to the 9000 via Masterlink cables:-

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You then just need a Speaker Sense Adapter for the Beosound (this plugs into either Powerlink socket on the Beosound 9000 to allow it to accept commands from the B&O remote control without having B&O speakers connected):-

ebnrob wrote:

Thanks for the reply MM.

I presume if I had a NL b&o TV and the NL converter, the TV would be able to play CDs from the BS 9000? Would the remote ML speakers be able to play the TV source? I also want to add in a Chromecast Audio, in that set-up would it go into the AUX of the BS9000 or the AUX of the NL/ML converter? 

Many thanks,

Rob.

Yes, exactly that is the purpose of that converter...to exchange sources to and from both systems.

If you want to keep the receiver in the mix, you certainly can do as adviced from Steve.

If you however, want to get rid of it, you could have a look at this:

Thanks for your help. 

If I upgraded my TV to a BV7 or BV10 would I connect the Beolab speakers directly to the TV and connect the BS9000 (also in living room) and other link rooms to the TV's ML socket? I would want to be able to play the radio or CD from the BS9000 in a ML link room while the BV in the living room was on TV, would that be possible? Would the living room BV be able to play sources on the BS9000 too over ML? 

Many thanks,

Rob.

Hi MM, I'm toying with the idea of getting a beovision 11 with NL/ML converter as opposed to a BV7 or BV10.. do you know if a BV11 can play audio sources from an master linked BS9000 without having to turn the screen on? I couldn't see any reference to this in the manual. Many thanks for your help, Rob.

Millemissen wrote:

A NL/ML Converter won’t be of any help in your setup.

That converter is basicly a bridge between NL and ML product - you have no NL products in the setup.

My question is would a NL/ML converter with IR eye located in the living room resolve this by using the converter's AUX in for the connection to the samsung tv, it's powerlink to the beolab 8000s and masterlink to the 9000, BV6 and 3500?