I now have the TV, I was short a couple of Powerlink (RJ45 to DIN) adapters and they arrived today, so finally it’s all set up.
I’m happy to say it all works. The Beosound 5 is set as an audio slave, the Beosound 9000 is set in Opt.0, and both are connected to a ML junction box, which in turn is connected to the Beolink Converter NL/ML, and that is connected to the Beovision 11-46 TV.
All speakers are connected to the TV (Beolab 3000 front, Beolab Penta surround, and Beolab 2 sub).
It all seems to work – everything works via the remote (I use a Beo4, Beo6 and Beoremote 1), and if I start to play either the BS9000 or BS5 direct from the unit itself, it also works.
The only oddities I have found are:
- If I use the Beosound 5’s own standby button, it stops playing, but it does not put the whole system into standby, whereas the Beosound 9000 standby button does put the whole system into standby.
- Although I do have Mk2 Powerlink converters, the displays on my BL3000 and BL Penta only show ‘TV’ and the volume, no matter what source is playing. Oddly, the speaker displays only work if set to Audio rather than Video – I’m assuming this is just a restriction of the BV11, being much newer that the speakers.
- My BV11 came with a Panasonic Blu-ray player which is mounted rather nicely on the back. I have set it up with the PUC cable but for some reason, it powers on whenever I power on the system, rather than only powering on when I set that source. It also does not power off when I put the system into standby, even though I have set it to do that in the BV11 settings.
I do have one question – I like a bit or retro gaming and I would like to connect my old Nintendo GameCube to it. I have a S-VHS cable for the GameCube but found that it does not fit into the little round AV socket on the BV11. Could anyone tell me what kind of plug that AV socket takes?
Location: Liverpool
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