Datalink on Beogram Turntable

[Guy]

As far as I know it would work with both.  I have had a read of this and cannot see any limitations for either of those setups mentioned: https://beoworld.org/datalink/

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[Madskp]

There are mentioning of some limitations in the datalink implementation in the Beomaster 6000 here https://beocentral.com/beomaster6000-1980s

If I understand it correctly its about starting the Beomaster from the control panel on the Beocord, so should not interfere with remote control of a record player

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[Peter]

Not convinced it will work though will try it out when I can. The 4004 used a proto datalink and Tim on Beocentral suggests it is not compatible. I will let you know – will need to find where I put the spare DIN pins first!!

The Beoworld piece also suggests that it will not work remotely. It will of course function perfectly well as a record player – I have used mine with all sorts of Beomasters.

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[Madskp]

The text on Beocentral i pretty clear that it will only work with a Beomaster 2400-2 https://beocentral.com/beogram4004

Furthermore looking at the diagram for the Beogram 4004 I can see that the data connection use both pin 6 and 7 where normally pin 6 is used for Beograms without Riaa built in and pin 7 for Beograms with RIAA built in

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[Dillen]

It will not work.
The “old” and “new” datalink systems are not compatible.

Martin

[Guy]

Dillen wrote:

It will not work. The “old” and “new” datalink systems are not compatible. Martin

Thanks @Dillen (and everyone else).  I agree despite my earlier incorrect post!

I have just been revisiting my Chrome history to try to work out why I thought otherwise.  I did see a paragraph taken from a ‘Beolink’ article the old forum which stated:  The idea of electronic sensi-touch controls did away with old-fashioned buttons and other mechanical ways of controlling your equipment and paved the way for the first true ‘Datalink’ product: Beogram 4004.  Clearly I took this too literally and didn’t investigate further, or even read fully the ‘datalink’ page that I linked – many apologies.

@Peter – no need to run the test! 😀

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[Weebyx]

I have made this 🙂

Beogram 4002/4004 RIAA/Remote control Upgrade 🙂

It is making the BG4002/4004 act like a BG7000 with the modern Datalink beomasters.

/Weebyx

[Peter]

Very clever! It amazes me how resourceful members are! I confess that I always clean the record before playing it as usually use a 20CL and any dust simply collects on the needle. And my best deck is completely manual. However clearly there will be demand though maybe a non RIAA version could also be popular.

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[Weebyx]

Peter wrote:

Very clever! It amazes me how resourceful members are! I confess that I always clean the record before playing it as usually use a 20CL and any dust simply collects on the needle. And my best deck is completely manual. However clearly there will be demand though maybe a non RIAA version could also be popular.

It is possible to bypass the internal RIAA 🙂

 

It is possible to bypass the internal RIAA 🙂

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