Hi 

No need for any modifications, you can use the RCA Pre Out sockets of the Beomaster 5500 to eitherBeolab speakers or to Beolink Passive/MCL2P via a trigger cable.

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Kind regards Steve.

Hi Steve,

thanks for your response.

However your suggestion does not help as there is no signal at the preamp out because the power amplifier is not working.

Kind regards

Hartmut

Hi Hartmut

Thanks for your reply. The pre amp outputs should still work if the power amp

fails, so this sounds like something more serious is wrong with the Beomaster.

Kind regards Steve.

The pre-amp outputs on the Beomaster 5500 are in fact tapped off the speaker output Steve,and stepped down in level.

It is possible to modify the internal circuitry of the BM5500 to provide powerlink output's,including providing a "trigger" voltage to power up say a MCL/2P or similar,dare I say "other brand" power amp!

First option surely is to repair the existing power amp?

What has become of it?

Nick

Hi Nick,

unfortunately the power amp is not repairable, the printed circuit board itself is damaged. Can yoe provide a scheme how to modify the master circuitry to connect to a MCL2P? So far I connected the input to the power amplifier to earphone voltage splitter. So I can hear with earphones but only at rather low volume.

Kind regards

Hartmut

Nick, you put me on the right way. I used the powerlink output board of a spare BM6500 and connected it to the BM5500 R253,R453 and ground as well as the trigger wire with R15 (all on PCB3). So I can use the BM5500 now wtith active speakers.

Goodo,thanks for sharing the info.

Nick