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Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Chrisreunion — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:45:21 GMT

With the forthcoming release of BeoNet, there should be a new range of link speakers, I hope.

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Hiort — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:07:52 GMT

Thanks for the ideas and thoughts, gentlemen.

@Trip:

Yes, I only want a link speaker. I realize now that sound from any iPod played on the BS8 will of course not go out on the Masterlink.

@mjmedlo:

I can today play my digital connection on my system using Airport Express over my Beocenter 2.

@vienna:

Thanks for instructions.

All in all, I realize that its a lot of hazzle just to get a more contemporary linkspeaker than the BL2000. Music fom an iPod docked to the BS8 will only play in that linkroom.

Will B&O ever provide a new link speaker such as Beolab 2000 or 3500, you think?

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Vienna — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:25:35 GMT

You mentioned in your original post, you woud like to replace a BeoLab 2000 and gain the
possibility to play music from an "iThing" - as you called it.

I assume, simple and "BeoLab 2000 like" control of your ML sources is important to you.

BeoLink Aktive: "L-Opt" "5" ("6" if video sources shall be controlled too)
-> control sources of the ML System by pressing "CD" , "Radio" "TV", ... using a Beo 4/5/6
the same way as on your BLb 2000.

BeoSound 8: "A-Opt" "4"
-> BeoSound 8 will react to it's own remote
(and to a Beo 4/5/6 when selecting "Link" + "Any Audio Source" e.g. "Link" + "CD")

But, depending on your prefered source(s) you'll find different option settings possibly more convenient.

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

mjmedlo — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:43:33 GMT

what is your system master? and . . .what are you trying to get the BS8?

It's very simple with the new BM5 update and an iDevice to get N.Music

of course. . .this limits you to your digital collection but. . .very clean and easy to implement

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

TripEnglish — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:15:18 GMT

You'll have to switch on the Active somehow. I think it would be the BeoSound 8 that wouldn't need any input since it's line sensing and should retain a turn-on volume.

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Peter — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:58:27 GMT

Won't the IR port on the BS8 suffice so you don't need the eye on the Beolink Active?

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

TripEnglish — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:43:42 GMT

I think you want to use it as a link speaker, not a master, correct?

If so, it should work fine. You'd convert the PL output on the Active Kit using 6270302 into 2 RCA cables which would connect to the BeoSound 8 as an input. Providing there's nothing docked, it will sense an active input and turn on. What I don't know since I've never set it up is how the volume would work since they're both speaker level. There are plenty of home-made setups out there with 2 speaker level devices in line, but you may have to put the Active Kit in Link Option 4 or something so there's no overlapping volume commands.

Re: Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Vienna — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:32:35 GMT

Hiort:

... dealer told me its doable using a newer vesion of Beolink Active ...
... but I believe I will not be able to get anything from the BS8 (i.e music from a iThingie)
out on the Masterlink network.

1) YES, the DIN "PC" socket af any BeoLink Active since 1999 will deliver music from the ML-Systen
to an external unit, in your case via an adaptor cable to the "line in" = RCA-Phono sockets of the BSd 8
- the very special pin layout and the wiring has been described in the last posts of this thread:

http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/p/15997/281702.aspx#281702

2) NO, for two reasons:
- the BSd 8 has no analogue output-sockets
- the "PC" socket of a BeoLink Active just transmits incoming signals to the PL socket
but not further into the ML-Network.

Beosound 8 in a link installation?

Hiort — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:53:32 GMT

Now when BS8 has been around for a while I wonder if anyone have incorporated it in a Masterlink network?

Would love to replace my Beolab 2000 linkspeaker.

A dealer told me its doable using a newer vesion of Beolink Active where there is a Phono outlet (for PC?), but I believe I will not be able to get anything from the BS8 (i.e music from a iThingie) out on the Masterlink network.

Anyone experimented with this?

I tried to search the forum, but could not find anything regarding this.