Hi!

I am a really happy owner of an ouverture for a couple years now (2 years hehe). Ive owned 4 so far; the BS3000 and BS3200 and another Ouverture. Sold 3 of them now.

Anyway, I am really thinking of getting the BS9000, since i like the party mode, aka shuffle. I would buy all black cds, copy loads of party songs on it; and press random. Thats entertainment sorted.

However, i still want to keep my ouverture. How would I go about connecting up? Would put them all (BV7-40, Ouverture and BS9000) on masterlink? I have a beo5, could i program it somehow to differentiate between ouverture and BS9000? I.E. CD and CD2 or something?

Please advise,

Tim

I had this same issue several years back. Loved the 9000, but wanted the cassette function of the BS4000 as well, in the same room. I tried all sorts of ways to ML them up (with the Avant as well in the room). but the fact that there were two audio masters in the same room on the same wire confused the hell out of the system (when CD function needed to be accessed).

Tim, it didn't work for me... but that's not to say that your mileage may vary with the use of the Beo5. When I visited the dealer this past saturday, he was using a Beo5 and on the screen had all the product's names, so I gather that the Beo5 can somehow differentiate between them? I don't know, as I don't have any experience with it.

What I can say with pretty good confidence is that when you have a Video Master, and 2 audio masters on the same ML wire, the 2 audio masters are going to compete for attention. After all sorts of option programming, including not having the Avant in their "family" of ML connections. I gave up, even tried having the BS4000 set up as a Link room product for same room operation, and that didn't work.

An viable option would be for the Ouverture to be in a separate room, and the BS9000 in the main room connected up with the BV7-40.

I'd be keen on hearing opinions from those who have made the "two masters in one room" work.

-Sal 

Sal, Thank you for your email, I appreciate your time and writting.

Maybe you are right, maybe the beo5 will work, but to be honest, im not keeping my hopes too high on it... maybe as you said; i have to move it to another room...

Ill email my dealer and ask,

Thanks,

Tim

"The answer to your question is YES but it would depend on the serial number of the Ouverture and whether it has the correct software installed.
 
The BeoSound 9000 would be the Master Audio driver and the Ouverture would be the slave audio unit. Any Audio remote command would operate the BeoSound 9000 but if you added in Link before the audio command you would have control of the Ouverture."