Linkroom: N.Music sounds destroyed while Radio/CD sounds good??

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Dear all,

I have the following setup:

  • Mainroom: BV8-40 + BS3200 + BL3
  • Linkroom 1: iMac 27" + Beoport + Linkplayer or BM-Link + BL6000
  • Linkroom 2: BV8-32 with Systemmodule
  • Linkroom 3: BL2000

The problem is in Linkroom 2. Listening to Radio/CD or A.Mem from the mainrooms BS3200 sounds very well on the BV8-32. N.Music and N.Radio sounds like the speaker drivers are broken.

N.Music or N.Radio in the Mainroom, Linkroom 1 or Linkroom 3 sounds well. Just in Linkroom 2 there is this problem... What I realized lately is that the BL2000 in Linkroom 3 has a slightly yellow LED and not real green. Do not know if this is a problem with the ML-Net or just aging of the LED.

Thanks for any idea where the problem can be.

Heribert

Some have complained that iTunes 10 has a very bad sound.

In LinkPlayer, have you tried using "LinkMusic" instead of "iTunes"?

p.

Try using "A.N-MUS" and "A.N-RA" in linkroom # 2.
(maybe you'll have to "ADD" these commands to your "LIST" first)

If this solves the problem you'll have to check your
setup/frequencies of the video link distribution.

This could be an iTunes-related problem. Do you have an Airport Express at your disposal?

yes I do. I have an older one and a new one.

Vienna wrote:
Try using "A.N-MUS" and "A.N-RA" in linkroom # 2.

 

I tried this, but without any more positive result. Sound is as poor as with N.Music

Try to unistall iTunes 10 and install iTunes 9. It works much better.

 

Edde

I do not understand why iTunes should be the problem as it works well in the mainroom. It must be some kind of ML problem.

Heribert wrote:
I do not understand why iTunes should be the problem as it works well in the mainroom. It must be some kind of ML problem.

I agree.  Here's a little troubleshooting logic:

1)  Other link sources sound fine in room 2 so the ML input audio to room 2 and the BV8-32 is not the problem

2)  N.Music/N.Radio sound fine in other rooms so iTunes, iMac, BeoPort and ML output from room 1 is not the problem

Therefore, I'd guess that there is some kind of connection issue between the audio output of room1 and the audio input of room2... although, it's not a general problem because then the other rooms would have issues.  Perhaps room1 and room2 go through the same junction box and there is some kind of issue that only shows itself in room2 when the audio output from room1 is active...  The description of the sound might mean that only 1/2 of the balanced audio is getting through.

Stan

I am using RJ45 cabling using Cat5 or 7 cables for the ML distribution. As the room 2 with BV8-32 was newly added it might be that the Cat7 cables are connected wrongly as version B instead of version A in the wall socket.

Could this cause the problem? But then I still do not see why sources from BS3200 work and N.music does not.

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