While began my journey to NL quite some years ago, I nevertheless recently encountered an issue with my remaining ML installation and I would appreciate any tips to narrow down the source of the failure.

I have a BS3000 (A.Opt 0) in my living room connected to my ML backbone. A ML/NL Converter in A.Slave mode mirrors basically the CD source to the NL world. These days I do not use the CD source as frequently as I used to do, but recently I discovered that my BV11 was not able to play the CD (nor radio) source any more (shows „Connecting...“ to the ML/NL Converter for quite some time before giving up and turning off). The BS3000 always acts indifferent without turning on at all.

The logs on the Converter hint in the direction that so audio master source can be found. I also tested to connect via my BV10 by pressing „CD“, which also does not start any activity from the BS. While I did not change any thing with the ML cabling for quite some years, I nevertheless wanted to exclude any wiring issues and I basically connected the BS3000 directly via a very short ML cabling (just with a junction box inbetween) to the converter. Also with this simplified ML setup, the converter logs still tell that no Audio Master can be found when requesting the CD source via B&O app. The BS3000 does not turn on, still.

The BS3000 still works in general, e.g. spins up the CD player when put in A.Opt 2 mode and responds to the Beo4. This now leads me to believe that the BS3000‘s ML logic became defective. Before now handing the BS3000 over to the dealer for repair I would like to seek advice if you guys have further hints on how to narrow down the issue even further.

Best,

Giraffe