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Re: What exactly is a Beolink

Alex — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:38:39 GMT

It basically lets you put a simple speaker system or 'stand-alone Television' in say, your kitchen or bedroom, which accesses your 'home cinema' or whatever in the main room. That's pretty generic though, you don't need a home cinema, just a simple stereo system will do.

Re: What exactly is a Beolink

MartinW — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:04:32 GMT

Just to add a bit more info for you, MasterLink only needs one cable to each room - it's a single multicore cable than carries audio and control signals from the master products (audio system and main TV) to all of your other rooms, unlike the basic multiroom systems that have two wires per pair of speaker, plus control wires etc etc. Just one single very robust and high quality (and very inexpensive) cable does it all with B&O.

If your 'link' room has audio only, then only one masterlink cable is required. If you have a 'link' TV and you want to be able to watch sources from the main TV, then you need MasterLink and an RF cable (standard TV aerial type cable). The RF carries the picture from the main TV to the link TV, the MasterLink does the rest.

Also, if you have several link rooms, you don't need several MasterLink cables coming from your MasterLink products - just one cable that can be daisy chained or joined in pretty much any way you like to make installation easy. I have one ML cable coming out of my main TV under the lounge floor, which then splits off in a junction box to the kitchen, dining room, upstairs etc etc.

It's a really great system.

Wireless units can be useful but you must test them in your own home - they can be problematic in the wrong kind of property. Also, wireless units can only connect to a pair of loudspeakers or the BeoLab 3500 link speaker - you can't wirelessly link a TV.

As Peter says, you can't beat going to see it working at your local dealer!

Cheers,

Martin

Re: What exactly is a Beolink

van — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:02:40 GMT

Some more information can be found on the main BeoWorld website within the articles section.

BeoLink Part I

BeoLink Part II

All the best

Re: What exactly is a Beolink

Peter — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:18:53 GMT

I would strongly suggest a trip to your local dealer. We can explain things a bit but nothing beats a good hands on demonstration. They will have a Beolink set up which will show you what can be acheived using this technology and let you have a go. The clever bit is that this has been going for over 20 years and most products from then can still be used today. I have a total mishmash of products using a variety of versions of Beolink in my house and they still all talk to each other! And yes, i can listen to and change the music from downstairs when upstairs as well as changing sources. Thanks to a new development, I can even choose computer music and get feedback about what tracks I have and the ability to chose the. (Very useful as I have 16,000 tracks on the computer!)

Re: What exactly is a Beolink

Christian — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:52:23 GMT

BeoLink is a term covering connection between various products.

There is Master Control Link (MCL) - used with old products, whereas Master Link (ML) is used with new products. The Ouverture was one of the first products that used Master Link.

MCL is wire based only, but with ML you have the choice between BeoLink Wireless and normal BeoLink.

I the situation you describe I would suggest a BeoLink Active (which is wire based), and enable local control, and the possibility to connect a set of active speakers is the bedroom. Here you will be able to control the volume independently from the dining room.

If you want to avoid the cables you can use Wireless instead, which has the same properties.

(And do not be sorry for you "ignorance", there is no such thing)

What exactly is a Beolink

Graham1982 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:34:40 GMT

Hi:

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a Beolink?

I asume that it is a cable which enables one to link their different b&o systems together. However, I have heard that this enables multi room sound systems.

I cannot envisage this without bumerous cables trailing all over the place and how would you control say the track change on an Oveture situated in the dining room from the bedroom (for example).

Thanks

Graham