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So it has, Peter! In my stupidity, I never realised we could use either the RCA or DIN plug output for TAPE2. Would you recommend an RCA-to-DIN cable going into the BS9000, or an RCA cable splitting the sound into left and right channels going into the analogue audio inputs of the BS3? In either case, does it just have the one RCA plug at the BS5500

Thanks! In that case, our problem may be solved.

Thanks, Beolab1. On the BM5500, the Tape 2 socket (which we've been using for outputting sound) has seven pins, though. The only five pin output is marked SENSOR - is this the same as AUX?

Yeah, it wasn't producing sound via the input into the BS2300 either! That's the baffling bit! So it must either be a problem with the amp, or more likely some odd connectivity issue that only rears its head when the entire system is powered down for a few hours. (And we used a different cable to connect into the BS9000, so it's not a cable

Think so, yes! This morning, I tried the cable in both sockets, just in case (although I'm 99.9% sure we had got it right). Neither of us can figure out why it won't produce any sound - or why it sometimes suddenly starts working after we repeatedly power the system down and restart it in different orders. It's driving us crazy!

We've tried hooking it up to the BS9000 in the way you suggested, but once again we got no sound. My dealer was speculating that it could be the BM5500 that has the fault - might be the case, but I doubt it, as it's only done this each time the entire system has been powered down and rewired, rather than showing as an intermittent fault. What

That's a good question, Peter! I'm not sure whether the BS3 can accept an amplified input. We've been using the Tape 2 output to send the signal to the BS2300 in the current set-up - can the BS3 accept input from DIN or RCA, then?

I've just spent the morning playing around with it, and another possibility occurs: the speaker outputs on the BM5500 utilise the same plugs as the analogue sound inputs on the BS3. Is it therefore possible to hook them up directly, using two cables (left to left and right to right) and assigning the BM5500 as an auxiliary device on an unused slot

Could anyone with expert knowledge of such set-ups tell me the best way to connect my turntable (Beogram 5500) and cassette deck (Beocord 5500) via their amplifier (Beomaster 5500) into the rest of my system (Beosound 9000, Beosystem 3, Beolab 5s front, Beolab 3s rear, Beolab 10 centre, plus various peripherals like an SACD player, Playstation 3 and