That might indeed be a good solution.

Replacing all with Core’s is expensive and a bit over the top - unless you really want the opportunity of listening to different music/radio in each room at the same time.

Of course this won’t please your dealer, but it seems to be something that you can do yourself - it let’s your existing setup pretty much untouched.

None the less, I would prefer the option with a NL/ML Converter and one BS Core - it would give you a more refined, elegant controlling of the system.

MM

lechatsurletoit wrote:

Hi,

 

I have kind of the same setup with a masterlink network across my appartement distributing music in 10 different rooms, some have actives, some passives, 2 beolab 3500 and a beolab 2000.

I added in the network a beolink converter 1611 that i got on ebay for 15€, and plugged in it a Chromecast audio for an other 35€.

 

Just hit TV on your beo4 or roll the volume wheel on  a beosound essence remote (i have 4 in the setup) and you can stream spotify and tunein.

I have the beosound/beomaster 5 as a master, when i want to listen to a cd or the radio.

 

i tried to make a multiroom system with an almando masterlink but listening to different music in different rooms just makes no sens to me.

 

you can also plug a smart tv to the converter and use it to stream or listen to a tv show in every room

Beautiful and easy solution to the problem. I highly recommend this solution as you keep within the ecosystem and remain remote functionality.

I, too, have been disappointed with how the BeoSound 5 lost so much of its functionality. It was indeed very expensive when new. I think that if you want a similar experience with an interface on the sound system, you would like the addition of a BeoSound Moment. Add an NL/ML Converter and you still have full access from all of your ML rooms. Also, you could continue to use your BeoSound 5. However, I have found that I now only use my BeoSound 5 (or rather really the BeoMaster 5) as my DLNA source for my 2x BeoSound Moments.

Thanks all, this does look very promising. However we are quickly approaching the outer bands of my comfort zone.

Let's see if I get this right: this converts piece will trick the setup thinking there is a tv feeding in audio? I hope so far i'm still ok :-)

So, if you use the remote in one of the link rooms to select 'TV', the beosound will spring to life and take in the feed coming from that converter?

Does it require a lot of configuration. Currently (as expected) nothing happens when I press 'tv' on the remotes.

The Beolink converter 1611 automatically configures (I know, magic). If you do not have a TV in your setup, it automatically assumes that role. Now you just need a cable (ask Steve at Sounds Heavenly) to connect the Chromecast/Amazon Dot to the Blink converter and you should be good to go.

Hi,

i’m not a tech savy and managed to make it work. What you need is to add a masterlink plug to your system if you don’t have one free. Thats the difficult part. You can get one installed by a technicien or find a masterlink multiplug and add a new cable with plugs on both sides, or split a cable yourself and do the wiring with a junction box.

Then you add to this plug the converter, and power it up. It will autoconfigure itself and see your beomaster as a master. You will plug the chromecast or sonos or wathever you want as a secondary source in the converter aux in. The converter can also act a master but you need to change the option on the beomaster 5 to slave, in this case when you press on play on an ir eye what is played on the converter will be played through your system directly.

All you need to do is press tv on the beo4 instead of radio or cd so pretty integrated and pilot your music through your chromecast via phone or tablet, you can change the volume through the phone. So 2 steps instead of one but still acceptable.

works 99,99% of the time for me depending on my wifi.

easy solution and cheap, wished my b&o technicien would have proposed this from start would have avoid to buy a beomaster 5, but little regrets as i do love it to listen to CDs and looks good in my living room.

i have an android tv plugged in also the converter, plays spotify or can play video clips via youtube or tv channel works with voice through google home or phone. Unfortunetly my other android tvs (sony) are not linked and can’t play video clips in multiroom but maybe google will offer this functionality one day.

location isn’t so important as all this works through wifi or masterlink network so 0 cables going around all integrated in the walls.

one room was not linked to the network so i’m using a beolink wireless, works in the setup but system itself isn’t super reliable only works 75% of the time, will get this room cabled asap.

bottom line, nothing is better than cabling for sound quality and reliability, and when wifi is down you can still listen to a cd.

sonos is cheap but love the looks of my bang speakers, ir eyes and essence remote, don’t need to walk around with a remote as i can turn the music on in any room independently.

PS it just works and you don’t have to worry about it

PS it just works and you don’t have to worry about it

PS it just works and you don’t have to worry about it

You can upload your bs5 tracks to the cloud for free (50K tracks max)and access via Google play music, using the chromecast audio suggested earlier.