Some questions on Beolab 5

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i think thats not a normal behaviour.

mine are blinking both (perfectly in sync), when i change the volume...

regards

 

Thanks Mike, I will take that up with the seller and see where this goes.

Did anybody ever had a main chassis swap done, and receive back a chassis in less good condition and/or of a different type of connection plug (i.e. small instead of large plug or vice versa)?

If you have now an "old" main chassi, then probably you have speakers running different firmware versions. The newer one blinks the led on volume changes, the old one doesn't. (?)

When you turn the speaker off, do they keep the red led ON permanently or do they turn the red led OFF after a few seconds?

Mike wrote:

i think thats not a normal behaviour.

mine are blinking both (perfectly in sync), when i change the volume...

regards

Putzgrilous wrote:

If you have now an "old" main chassi, then probably you have speakers running different firmware versions. The newer one blinks the led on volume changes, the old one doesn't. (?)

When you turn the speaker off, do they keep the red led ON permanently or do they turn the red led OFF after a few seconds?

it depends if both BL are receiving the IR signal. Sometimes only one is receiving the signal and then blincking, the other one remains fixed, and the sync cable is synchroniziging the level, sometimes it is the other one, sometimes both (If the level is send through Powerlink, there is no blinking at all)

Mine keeps the red led ON permanently (Final Edition release from last year)

Well, I've a sync cable. When I change the volume in one speaker, the other blinks.

Besides, when I turn my BL off, the red led goes off after some seconds.

I'm running the firmware 3.30...

 

If I'm not mistaken, this behaviour (turn the red led off) was set in the latest firmware to fulfill european power saving requirements.

Putzgrilous wrote:

If you have now an "old" main chassi, then probably you have speakers running different firmware versions. The newer one blinks the led on volume changes, the old one doesn't. (?)

When you turn the speaker off, do they keep the red led ON permanently or do they turn the red led OFF after a few seconds?

Is the firmware linked to the chassis?

The serial plates state they are running software 3.20.

If turned off, I think both stay red indefintely. 

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