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Re: How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

bumble — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:52:36 GMT

Sell the client a BS4000; connect the AirPort to AUX in and run it that way; else, take the BL2000 in on trade and find a better fit...

Re: How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

TripEnglish — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:35:30 GMT

The central issue issue here is that the BeoLab 2000 was intended as a dedicated/dumb/downstream terminal meant for use on a propietary network protocol, not as a stand alone speaker.

You are in essence asking: "I've gotten my hands on a Diebold ATM machine from my local bank. What do I need to hook up a hard drive so that I can watch video on it?" The answer is that it may be possible, but there isn't some magic cable that is going to do it for you.

Trip

Re: How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

beo-ap — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:14 GMT

I would not say it's impossible. After all you have the basic elements for what you are looking for. Having said this, I think without some advanced knowledge of how the BL 2000 and ML work, it will be extremely difficult.

Let us know how you fare.

Re: How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

pch — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:09:42 GMT

jk1002:
http://www.beoworld.org/beotech/wiring4.htm

like I said: I already know the cable layout and already connected it the way it should be, but no results so far...

jk1002:
For normal B&O speaker I think it would be way easier but since the BL2000 is designed to get the source from the remote B&O system it will be tricky.

You mean impossible?

Re: How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

jk1002 — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:19:00 GMT

http://www.beoworld.org/beotech/wiring4.htm

For normal B&O speaker I think it would be way easier but since the BL2000 is designed to get the source from the remote B&O system it will be tricky.

How do I connect an Apple Airport to a Beolab-2000?

pch — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:26:28 GMT

A customer of mine has a Beolab-2000 and asked me if we can fix his problem: he wants to connect his Apple Airport to it. He only has the Beolab-2000 as Bang&Olufsen, the other equipment is all Primare which we installed in his house together with a 60" Pioneer Kuro!

I already know what the cable-layout of the Masterlink is, we disconnected the plug of the Masterlink cable and tried to connect a cd-player with a stereopair of RCA's, but that didn't work...It also seems the Beolab-2000 isn't fully on: there is only a red LED and I guess it is still in standby, right? Pushing all the buttons wil not result in a green LED.

Do you guys have any tips? Is there some kind of trigger necassary to get it out of standby or what?

Thx Paul.