Good morning,

since I have a few vinyls I'd like to convert to digital, I hooked up my Beomaster 5500 to my PC's audio interface (ESI Juli@). I thought that this would be straight forward: I connected the 2 line in ports (RCA) of the ESI to the 2 RCA ports (AUX) of my BM. I turned on the Beogram, switched to AUX and... nothing... Tape 2... nothing. I switched the cables between the ports on the BM (in the section where it says TP2 and AUX on the back panel) - still nothing.

When I hooked an audio source (Squeezebox Touch) to the BM, I noticed that I could hear it no matter to which channel I switched the BM (I could hear it on AUX as well as Tape 2 and even Tape). Is this normal?

Also, the cables and the ESI work, because when I connected the cables to the aforementioned Squeezebox Touch, I had sound as expected.

Am I doing something wrong? What is the correct port to connect to and what must be selected when I want to record from the BM (I know it's been written in the old forum but not as plain as to be sure for that exact purpose)? Or does this sound more like a fault? Could I alternatively remove the bridges (how?) next to the AUX/TP2 port where it says line? The manual says this connects the equalizer, does this mean that this would bypass the equalization of the RIAA signal?

Thanks for your advice.

By the way, I had headphones connected to the BM when I tried that, but I guess this doesn't prevent the line out from the BM from working (switching off certain circuits or something), right?