You need to connect the MX4000 to the Beomaster via an audio/aux(datalink) cable.You can then play audio sources via the tv.If you want extra speakers on the tv,you will need an amplifier such as MCL2p,Beolink Passive/Ml-MCl converter,connected as a slave to the powerlink socket on the MX.

To operate the BM6500 inside furniture,you could use an Extra speaker kit(2047)connected to SP2.

Regards,

Nick

When it comes to B&O link systems, there was "Datalink" "MCL" which means Master Link Control and Masterlink which we have today.

The sockets of the Beomaster 6500 are as below:-

You will notice that the speaker socket 1 left and right have an extra pin each which makes up the MCL connection

Having your Beosystem 6500 in a closed room will be a problem if you wish to use the MCP (Master Control Panel), but if you use the "Audio Aux Link" connected to a Type 1611 Beolink converter will give you Masterlink for any newer products. However as you have an MX4000 it also has an "Audio Aux Link" connection so, that makes you situation easier.

You can still source MCL cable itself, however what is less commonly available is the MCL cables with the speaker plugs with the extra pin. I have seen them for sale from time to time and Peter or Graham may have more information in this area.

If you were to have a Masterlink TV such as an AVANT connected to your Beosystem 6500 in the closed room via a Beolink 1611 converter then you could use your Beo4 remote with the IR signals going via the AVANT.

I have put together a little illustration to clarify how I would like this link system to work.

The main room is a very large open space, hence all the speakers. So, If I stick to the older "datalink/MCL" system would this diagram work? Is there any equipment I would not need, or any extra equipment I would need to get? How do I connect the "tranceiver" to the BM6500?

In room 1, would I need the "tranceiver" at all? or could I control everything through the MX4000? In this room I would like to listen to music with volume control option from the BM6500 through the CX50 and to watch TV (it would then be great, if possible, to have the CX50 speakers on, or off, in TV mode)

Thanks again for your help and I feel I'm getting closer to understand it all.

Patrik

If this was my system I would do the following:

Connect the BM6500's speaker 2 to a MCL-2A in the main room. This will allow remote control in the main room, when the BM is placed out of sight. Then connect your speaker switch to the MCL-2A, or all of them directly if you always want to play then all together. Remember that the Cona is supposed to be connected between the CXs and the MCL-2A/Switch/Beomaster. The Cona filters the low frequecies out.

From the MCL-2A in the main room I would daisy chain an MCL cable to the link room, where I would install a MCL-2AV. Then connect the MX to the MCL-2AV by a Datalink cable, and then connect the CXs directly to the MX. This way you will not need an amplifier in the link room, or a transceiver.

If you later install a Beovision en the main room you could connect it directly to the Beomaster by a Datalink cable or through a 1611 converter if the TV has MasterLink.

You cannot connect a transceiver to the Beomaster, so you would need the MCL-2A in the main room. And do not use speaker 1, as this will require the hands-on control off the Beomaster or a direct IR command.

With the right option setting everything should work.

In case you do not know

I think it looks OK, but be aware that there is a difference between MCL and Datalink cable. You need MCL cables between the BM and the MCL-2A and between the MCL-2A and the MCL-2AV. You need Datalink cable between the MCL-2AV and the MX.

MCL cable connects to the BM by two plugs, dot-line-dot, like the picture below.

The two plugs are coming from the same cable, where all the wires are color coded. The above picture shows the connection to a MCL-2A.

Datalink, on the other hand, uses a 7 pin DIN plug in both ends.

MCL Cable carries right and left amplified sound and datalink, whereas Datalink cable carries line level signal and datalink.