I currently have a CDX connected to my BM6000 and MC120.2's and it sounds great, but I am a lazy person and am not keen on getting up all the time to change cd tracks or turning the CDX off. I have recently got hold of a CD50 with the CD terminal remote which all works perfectly and so am in a quandary as to wether to sacrifice some looks for convieniance and go with the CD50 or to keep the CDX which I love the look and the sound of but is a pain for not being remote controlled. Also, I am sure that I read somewhere on here that the CD terminal on the CD50 can turn a BM6000 off. Is this correct.

I am going to have a good listening session tonight just to see if there is much difference with the CDX. I have had one before and it seemed a nice sounding player.

I have both and prefer my CDX. Much easier to use as it has lots of controls though the CD50 remote would trump that. How hard is it to get up between CDs?

Between CD's I could live with, but skipping songs etc I do like.  Also, the BM6000 always goes to phono when a cd is started on the cd50, is there any way, apart from removing the datalink pin to stop this happening.

The CD50 behaves like a record player so the answer is no. However the Datalink pin is superfluous in this situation as you will be using the CD50 remote. Take the pin out!

The pin has been removed. On looking through the cd50 service manual, it shows that you can remove a jumper in the remote to then control the on/off of various beomasters. Has anyone ever done this? I am not too sure I have identified the correct thing on the circuit board of the remote. Any one have any ideas.

Hi Beaker,

Sorry to revive this rather old thread, but did you ever try the modification to the terminal?

I'd love to hear as a BGCD50 with terminal seems to be a perfect companion to my BM8000, overcoming its only drawback: no datalink CD compatibility.

Only difficult thing will be finding one with remote and PCB though

Thanks!