How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

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pch (archived)
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Posted May 15, 2008 at 10:26 GMT
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A customer of mine has a Beolab-2000 and asked me if we can fix his problem: he wants to connect his Apple Airport to it. He only has the Beolab-2000 as Bang&Olufsen, the other equipment is all Primare which we installed in his house together with a 60" Pioneer Kuro! 

I already know what the cable-layout of the Masterlink is, we disconnected the plug of the Masterlink cable and tried to connect a cd-player with a stereopair of RCA's, but that didn't work...It also seems the Beolab-2000 isn't fully on: there is only a red LED and I guess it is still in standby, right? Pushing all the buttons wil not result in a green LED.

Do you guys have any tips? Is there some kind of trigger necassary to get it out of standby or what?

Thx Paul. 

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Posted May 15, 2008 at 20:19 GMT
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http://www.beoworld.org/beotech/wiring4.htm

 

For normal B&O speaker I think it would be way easier but since the BL2000 is designed to get the source from the remote B&O system it will be tricky. 

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pch (archived)
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Posted May 16, 2008 at 02:09 GMT
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jk1002:
For normal B&O speaker I think it would be way easier but since the BL2000 is designed to get the source from the remote B&O system it will be tricky. 

You mean impossible?

 

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peria (archived)
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Posted May 17, 2008 at 17:54 GMT
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I would not say it's impossible. After all you have the basic elements for what you are looking for. Having said this, I think without some advanced knowledge of how the BL 2000 and ML work, it will be extremely difficult.

Let us know how you fare.
 

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TripEnglish (archived)
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Posted May 17, 2008 at 20:35 GMT
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The central issue issue here is that the BeoLab 2000 was intended as a dedicated/dumb/downstream terminal meant for use on a propietary network protocol, not as a stand alone speaker. 

You are in essence asking: "I've gotten my hands on a Diebold ATM machine from my local bank.  What do I need to hook up a hard drive so that I can watch video on it?"  The answer is that it may be possible, but there isn't some magic cable that is going to do it for you.

 

Trip

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bumble (archived)
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Posted May 20, 2008 at 23:52 GMT
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Sell the client a BS4000; connect the AirPort to AUX in and run it that way; else, take the BL2000 in on trade and find a better fit...
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