BS5 BM5 (Main Equipment) BS 9000/3200 (Secondary Equipment) another room

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Hi very interesting your answers. 

a) By the way,  the new 'Beolink Converter NL-ML'  can help, for example or you always need a Sound System in the room with this dos Beolink Converter. Do you know how is the best connection,  and how it works?.

b) IMPORTANT: I understand that it is impossible listen the sound equipment (Bs3200 or Bs5) as secondary equipment in a periferical room without directly speaker connection, where you have a Beosystem or Beovision with connected speakers. (Martin said).

c) Stefan said: I understand you can hear all sources from BS 3200, and BS 5, if BS 3200 (A.Opt 0) Beo Vision 5 (V.Opt 0)? ok Living. and BS5 No Audio Master (Off) . And the by Biocontrol 4 touch N.Music/N.Radio? GO (file music library), N.Music GO  1 (number 1 BControl4) Spotify, and N.Music GO 2 (number 2 BControl4)A.Aux?. I thougth only in Yes  Audio Master (ON) BS5BM5 works with CD,Spotify, and Aux.

 

Hi very interesting your answers. 

a) By the way,  the new 'Beolink Converter NL-ML'  can help, for example or you always need a Sound System in the room with this dos Beolink Converter. Do you know how is the best connection,  and how it works?.

b) IMPORTANT: I understand that it is impossible listen the sound equipment (Bs3200 or Bs5) as secondary equipment in a periferical room without directly speaker connection, where you have a Beosystem or Beovision with connected speakers. (Martin said).

c) Stefan said: I understand you can hear all sources from BS 3200, and BS 5, if BS 3200 (A.Opt 0) Beo Vision 5 (V.Opt 0)? ok Living. and BS5 No Audio Master (Off) . And the by Biocontrol 4 touch N.Music/N.Radio? GO (file music library), N.Music GO  1 (number 1 BControl4) Spotify, and N.Music GO 2 (number 2 BControl4)A.Aux?. I thougth only in Yes  Audio Master (ON) BS5BM5 works with CD,Spotify, and Aux.

 

Hi very interesting your answers. 

a) By the way,  the new 'Beolink Converter NL-ML'  can help, for example or you always need a Sound System in the room with this dos Beolink Converter. Do you know how is the best connection,  and how it works?.

b) IMPORTANT: I understand that it is impossible listen the sound equipment (Bs3200 or Bs5) as secondary equipment in a periferical room without directly speaker connection, where you have a Beosystem or Beovision with connected speakers. (Martin said).

c) Stefan said: I understand you can hear all sources from BS 3200, and BS 5, if BS 3200 (A.Opt 0) Beo Vision 5 (V.Opt 0)? ok Living. and BS5 No Audio Master (Off) . And the by Biocontrol 4 touch N.Music/N.Radio? GO (file music library), N.Music GO  1 (number 1 BControl4) Spotify, and N.Music GO 2 (number 2 BControl4)A.Aux?. I thougth only in Yes  Audio Master (ON) BS5BM5 works with CD,Spotify, and Aux.

 

Hi very interesting your answers. 

a) By the way,  the new 'Beolink Converter NL-ML'  can help, for example or you always need a Sound System in the room with this dos Beolink Converter. Do you know how is the best connection,  and how it works?.

b) IMPORTANT: I understand that it is impossible listen the sound equipment (Bs3200 or Bs5) as secondary equipment in a periferical room without directly speaker connection, where you have a Beosystem or Beovision with connected speakers. (Martin said).

c) Stefan said: I understand you can hear all sources from BS 3200, and BS 5, if BS 3200 (A.Opt 0) Beo Vision 5 (V.Opt 0)? ok Living. and BS5 No Audio Master (Off) . And the by Biocontrol 4 touch N.Music/N.Radio? GO (file music library), N.Music GO  1 (number 1 BControl4) Spotify, and N.Music GO 2 (number 2 BControl4)A.Aux?. I thougth only in Yes  Audio Master (ON) BS5BM5 works with CD,Spotify, and Aux.

 

rviola wrote:

Hi very interesting your answers. 

 

b) IMPORTANT: I understand that it is impossible listen the sound equipment (Bs3200 or Bs5) as secondary equipment in a periferical room without directly speaker connection, where you have a Beosystem or Beovision with connected speakers. (Martin said).

 

 

I do not understand this point, or perhaps I do not agree with it. Maybe the difference is MasterLink verses NetLink?  I have a Beovision 7 with connected speakers set to option 2. I also have a Beovision 10 with connected speakers set to option 6 in another room.  They are connected by MasterLink as well as being connected to the Beosound 3000 and Beosound 5 by Masterlink. All sources are available through the speakers connected to each Beovision. Also, it is my understanding with Masterlink that it is irrelevant which room the audio systems are located in. They receive their control through the ML. For example, both of my Beosounds are located in the link room with the BV10. At one point the Beosound 3000 was located out f sight in my basement and worked just as it should.

 

I have the Beosound  3000 set as Audio Master and the Beosound 5 set as Audio Master No

Razlaw wrote:
My apologies, but I am confused. Why can't a video and audio product share the same speakers  with a Beosound 3200?  If the speakers are connected to the BS3 that is exactly what they are doing. Or do you mean there can not be separate connections from the audio and video to the speakers?

Hi Razlaw,

Sorry for any confusion.

The point I was making is that only main room products can share speakers (the audiomaster, the videomaster, and the source centre if one exists). You can't have audio and video products configured as link room devices (in options 5 / 6) sharing speakers with each other (at least not without resorting to powerlink switches for example).

The BS3 in this instance would presumably be configured as option 5 or option 6 as there is already a video master (the BV5) elsewhere in the setup.

Of course the OP could configure the BS3200 in this room as A.opt 0 if no other audiomaster exists elsewhere, but then operating it via its front panel would trigger the audio to play through the speakers connected to the BV5 in the main room and not through the speakers connected to the BS3 in the same room as the 3200.

Martin.

 

Location: Exeter, UK

rviola wrote:

All Rooms we can hear  . a) Radio,CD,A Men or CD Men  from BS 3200.  b) N.Radio N.Music from BS5BM5 [Audio Master: NO] so we can not listen Spotify, CD BS5, and no AUX (to connect example Airport Express) we think.

As Stefan mentioned, you should be able to also listen to BM5 Spotify and BM5 Aux (behringer USB) by pressing N.MUSIC -> GO -> 1 and N.MUSIC -> GO -> 2. You can't use the CD ripper as a CD player when Audiomaster=no though.

There should be no issues with the BM5/BS5 being in a different room to your video and audio masters (BV5 and BS3200) except that if you start the music from the panel of the BS5 itself, it will play using the speakers connected to the BV5 in the lounge and not the speakers connected to the BS3 in the study. You could still operate it within the study by pressing for example N.MUSIC on the remote though.

Martin.

 

 

 

Location: Exeter, UK

riverstyx wrote:

Hi Razlaw,

Sorry for any confusion.

The point I was making is that only main room products can share speakers (the audiomaster, the videomaster, and the source centre if one exists). You can't have audio and video products configured as link room devices (in options 5 / 6) sharing speakers with each other (at least not without resorting to powerlink switches for example).

The BS3 in this instance would presumably be configured as option 5 or option 6 as there is already a video master (the BV5) elsewhere in the setup.

Of course the OP could configure the BS3200 in this room as A.opt 0 if no other audiomaster exists elsewhere, but then operating it via its front panel would trigger the audio to play through the speakers connected to the BV5 in the main room and not through the speakers connected to the BS3 in the same room as the 3200.

Martin.

Thanks! I think part of my confusion comes from the fact that I do not use either 5 or 6 on my audio products. My 3000 is old enough it does not have those options. I have it set as Master and BS 5 as audio master no. All sources work everywhere.
Maybe a bit off topic...but reading this thread caused me to look at my Beosound 5. My recollection is that in order to use Spotify on it, it had to be set as Audio Master. That is the reason

I initially disconnected my Beosound 3000. I wanted to use Spotify and as I did not have option 5 and 6 on my 3000, it did not work well. Now having an Essence with Spotify and Deezer, I reconnected the 3000, made it the Audio Master and turned the Beosound 5 to Audio Master no. Today I noticed that even with it in Audio Master no, Spotify is present. Is my memory wrong? Has Spotify always worked with Audio Master no? Or was there a software update?
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