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Not sure if it has an effecgt, but have you tried to power up the NL/ML Converter before the other parts in the system?
I do not have acces to my NL/ML converter at the moment, so it will be some time before I can share how my settings for it are
I’ll have another crack at this at the weekend. Am more prepared to invest time into the Converter now after carolpa’s revelations.
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just ask what you want to achieve, there is almost always somebody over here with the right advice
That’s why we come here 😁
What I’m after should be pretty straightforward. At its simplest we have three rooms – lounge, dining room, kitchen. The sources (Beosystem 6500 at the moment) are in the lounge, as is the non-B&O TV. We listen to vinyl records, CDs and FM radio (and TV in the lounge only) via the Beosystem, and I also have a Majority Fitzwilliam streamer into the Tape2 port for DAB, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth and Internet Radio.
In the dining room and kitchen (and possibly other rooms too) we would like to be able to listen to (and control) the main audio sources from the Beosystem without echo, and be able to press a single button to ‘Join’ and the same button to ‘Leave’ as we see fit. Volume control without finding a remote is a bonus too.
Masterlink seems like an ideal way to achieve this – IR eye with volume control, almost instant joining, no delay or echo, CAT7 RJ45 infrastructure. No messing about with networks or wireless dropping out, everything reliably hard-wired, and no having to use a phone to control anything. And pretty cheap now. Better than Master Control Link as the wiring is easier to install and more versatile, and the IR eyes have direct volume control. But I as discussed above I can’t get Masterlink to work without putting the whole system into standby when ‘Leaving’ the last link room. This is slightly annoying with e.g. FM radio or the streamer, as it’s quick to turn back on again, but really annoying with vinyl, as the record stops completely and has to be restarted again from the beginning.
I have no interest in distributing sound or pictures from a TV.
Should be straightforward!?!
Dave
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Hello Dave, with the below set-up that works:
I got it all robustly working with help of kind Beoworld members! It is a bit of a learning curve 🙂Let me know if you need any details.I hope it helps to get to what you want.Regards, JohanLocation: Netherlands
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Evening all,
A couple of bits of unsuccessful experimentation to report. I wondered if my problems (short press on the IR eye or remote turns the whole system off when Masterlinked) might stem from a faulty 1611, so I bought another from Quality Dream Audio and tried that. No change, same issue.
I then tried both 1611s in one system. I built a 3.5mm-DIN cable as per Matador/Guy/Madskp’s instructions using only the ‘video’ input pins and tested that it worked by connecting to a standalone BL2000, which allowed me to activate a Bluetooth streamer using the V.x commands, and presumably therefore configured the 1611 as a videomaster. However adding this to a fuller Masterlink setup (hopefully with one 1611 as audiomaster and one 1611 as videomaster) resulted only in the same behaviour as above. This confirms what Madskp thought a couple of months ago.
Still looking for a very cheap Beovision 6-22 or similar to try that. The good thing is our building work is still about as far away as it was in March so time yet to make a decision over ML/MCL/Wiim or whatever.
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Interesting progress!
I was very fortunate to be able to take advantage of a local advert for a Beosound 3000 and pair of BL6000s for… £100. Nice. Once I’d made sure it all worked ok, I tried the Masterlink port:
BS3000 > ML > BL2000
And it worked as I thought ML ought to work! If the BS3000 is on, turning on the BL2000 starts the sound and short press on . turning it off again stops the sound without shutting down the whole system. No Videomaster attached. So I tried:
BS3000 > ML (RJ45) distributor &> BL2000 &> BL Active
And again everything seemed to work as I’d hoped. Short press on . turns either on or off without affecting the others. Long press on any of the three turns everything off. If all three are on, and I short press . on the BS3000, only the BS3000 goes quiet but a CD continues playing through the BL2000 and Active. Incredible! And all without a Videomaster.
So I conclude for now that it’s the presence of the BLC1611 that causes the ‘everything turns off’ problem.
The BS3000 is a lovely thing but the lack of an (ideally datalinked) phono port and only one Aux port brings it’s own problems for my setup. Not quite perfection yet!
Incidentally I’m surprisingly impressed with the sound from the BL6000s. I had expected them to sound a bit thin and reedy but certainly with loudness turned on they’re quite punchy.
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Interesting progress!
BS3000 > ML > BL2000
And it worked as I thought ML ought to work! If the BS3000 is on, turning on the BL2000 starts the sound and short press on . turning it off again stops the sound without shutting down the whole system. No Videomaster attached. So I tried:
BS3000 > ML (RJ45) distributor &> BL2000 &> BL Active
And again everything seemed to work as I’d hoped. Short press on . turns either on or off without affecting the others. Long press on any of the three turns everything off. If all three are on, and I short press . on the BS3000, only the BS3000 goes quiet but a CD continues playing through the BL2000 and Active. Incredible! And all without a Videomaster.
So I conclude for now that it’s the presence of the BLC1611 that causes the ‘everything turns off’ problem.
The BS3000 is a lovely thing but the lack of an (ideally datalinked) phono port and only one Aux port brings it’s own problems for my setup. Not quite perfection yet!
Still you did not prove anything about the T1611.
what you tested was/is common behavior of ML devices. No T1611, no issue…..that is normal!In the issue original presented the T1611 was an essential necessity to integrate a BM6500 in a ML setup. Then you will have another ballgame.
The T1611 was designed to integrate Non-ML audio with ML-BV – or – Non-ML BV with ML-audio.
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