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Hi Christian – good progress! For the fabric: I used akustikstoff.com (for my 8000s & 6000s) and liked it.
Regards, Johan
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Keeping you posted, I have now integrated the BS5/BM5 combo into the mix. What I did since I got it:
- rubbed the sticky soft touch coating from the BS5 with methylated spirit (under the coating is black gloss paint, it is looking quite nice again, and is much nicer to touch)
- had the cover of the BM5 sandblasted and powder coated in black fine structure (only pity is that the BANG & OLUFSEN logo is lost now)
- vacuumed out the BM5 with a soft brush (lots of dust, I damaged the yellow soft foam pad of the fan, but could replace it with a pad I had left when I gutted an HDR2)
- cloned the 500G HDD onto a 1T SSD, then stretched the data partition so there is almost 1TB space for content (using the helpful threads in the Forum and with some help of my brother, the BM5 needed a couple of recovery startups but now works rock solid)
- put it in Option 0, connected it to NL using a 3rd BLC in A Slave setting, only pushing N.MUSIC onto NL (I tried it straight onto the main ML network first with AM NO setting, but the system behaved a bit weird then, possibly with the main BLC being an A MASTER)
- converted my ALAC based iMusic library (all ripped CDs) into FLAC files using XLD
- placed the set behind my home office desk so the BS5 sits next to my monitor (so not in the kitchen :-))
Now the system looks like this:
As I type this I am I in the kitchen listening to The Police playing on the BS5 in the attic.
I can also play my (ALAC) library through my Core and Twonky, but what I want to explore now is the MOTS functionality (currently 20% scanned), as well as the Favorites, using the four colored buttons on the Beo4. Also I think the screen is not perfectly horizontal, maybe there is a possibility to set the rotation stop of the bajonet style fixation for that.
The interesting thing to know maybe is that when I did set the BS5 to connect to my Twonky/DLNA ALAC library, it played all the ALAC files fine, it only did not show the album art at all. I decided not to dig any deeper on that and convert the library into FLAC and place it on the (now) SSD of the BM5. All album art is shown perfectly after using the XLD converting.
Enjoy your sunday! Regards, Johan
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Nice set herrit! And really complete with the record deck and the mcp. This was the set my father in law bought (with BeoVox Pentas) that got me infected with the BeoVirus. Very much worth fixing, maintaining and using. Enjoy! Regards, Johan.
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Thanks for letting us know MM. I will remember his contributions to the forum with sometimes hilarious photoshop exercises but mostly with very helpful insights and visuals. Always worth a read. I do like his stubbornness to stick with what he needed, changing just to change is not always good.
It’s nice to know you had this special friendship going on!
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Hi Graham, that sounds like the best option to keep operating the BS3 as you are used to. Ideally the Sony has some kind of autosense to switch on when your BS3 provides a signal to it. Maybe you can align on that with the Sony guy. Regards, Johan
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The problems here mainly is the way you have to use/control the setup. As Tignum writes it is possible to get the sound from the LG to the BSys3 – I’d be an advocate for the HDMI ARC extractor there. If you want to use sources of the BSys3 as well as also those from the tv, it gets complicated….especially, if you have to concider that other members of the household might demand ease of use. My recommendation would be either to use the internal sources of the tv (including e.g. maybe a blu ray player connected there) and the BSys3 only for sound (speaker groups, volume etc) or to use the tv as a dumb screen and the BSys3 for everything (e.g. a Chromecast dongle, PUC-controlled external tuner, AppleTV etc…). In the first case you prioritize better picture – in the second better sound. Either way you will have to deal with two remotes. I guess you will have to do some experiments yourself in order to find out, what suits you best.
Good point MM. To keep everything working ‘as it was’, most logical seems to add an Apple TV to one of the HDMI inputs of the BS3. The Apple TV can provide in any desired smart tv app. No sound output of the TV required. The Sony will be the ‘dumb’ screen. Regards, Johan
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Hi Graham, the sound of my TV is coming from its optical out port (Toslink), then using an optical to coax converter, it is fed into an S/P-DIF digital input of the BS3. This allows 5.1 Dolby surround sound to be played over the connected speakers of the BS3.In the connections menu, at sound input, you should choose S/P-DIF.
If you have a 7.1 speaker set-up, you will likely need an HDMI ARC extractor and feed sound into one of the BS3’s HDMI inputs (plus maybe some help from a third BeoWorld member with that experience).
Regards, Johan
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Hi Benjnz, welcome!
I would say that with the BLC set to ‘Source center’ you can make N.RADIO and N.MUSIC sources visible to a joint BC6-26/BS3200 ML network, and also map the CD experience from that ML chain to NL. Check page 15 of the BLC handbook that you can find as an attachment in this thread: https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/difference-between-source-sugnals/page/3/.
(A.TAPE is used to access the stored CDs on the BS3200 right? If so, then I do not expect any (N.MUSIC) conflicts. But if such ML source conflict does end up to be a show-stopper, you can always decide to indeed get one BLC more, set that one to A SLAVE and ‘map’ the desired BS3200’s CD ‘experience’ to the NL side that way. This is how bnousr (and me) in the mentioned thread have set up our (three) generations of BeoLink networks).
Let us know what you achieve! Best of luck. Regards, Johan
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Found an Encore advertised, that turned out to be a BS5/BM5 500GB floorstand combo. I decided to take it :-). It works and I think controlling it with the pointer beam is charming.
Beauty however is in the eye of the beholder – I am facing fierce objection to add this work of art to our kitchen! It is called the dentist intake stand at the moment.
Keep you posted 😉
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PrizeDrawBot and humans of the BeoVerse, thanks a lot for the great draw and an exciting hour! See you in December 🙂
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There will be some jealous beoworlders now :-), congrats badgersurf!
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Hoi Theo, goed te horen! De 8000s zijn fraaie en mooi gemaakte speakers, zeker de moeite waard om te behouden. Groet, Johan
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Hi, yes also here many of these messages:
Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:53 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current statusMaybe a 100 lines everyday? Not sure if this a lot for the processor to handle.
Regards, Johan
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