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i am the owner of a house with a masterlink system.  in one room though there is 8-pin socket.  is this a datalink outlet? is there a way to connect to a beovisio mx 4002 with masterlink connection?

thank you!

Masterlink is a long, flat, rectangle socket, while Datalink is DIN.

I do not know how many pin has a Datalink socket.

Powerlink (for the speakers) is also DIN, it has eight pins.

You can find details about the different connections here:

http://www.beoworld.org/beotech/index.htm

That sounds like a Powerlink socket. Datalink is a 7 pin cable. You can sometimes use a powerlink cable as a Datalink one though... Cut the central pin. It does depend on what sort of powerlink cable it is though - there are a variety and not all are fully wired.

Are you sure that the house is wired for MasterLink, not Master Control Link?  A single 8-pin DIN socket just might be the original MCL for a BeoLab 3500/LCS-9000.

If, we're sure that it's all ML, then that is definitely a PL socket, the question becomes 'Why?"