Minidisc recorder in MCL link room

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MJBeo Posted: Mon, Jun 5 2017 5:01 PM

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Hi all,

I have a Beomaster 5500 without beocord in the main room. I hooked up my old pioneer minidisc deck, in one of my MCL link rooms, because as an experiment I would like to record from a local analogue source that I have connected to the CD input of the MCL2 A/V (my laptop). I connected the minidisc's output and input to the TAPE socket on the MCL2 A/V with a 5 pin DIN to 4x female RCA. The problem that I have is that I cannot get an input signal to my minidisc recorder to record.

• Music plays fine from the minidisk player in the link room, so the splitter works (albeit perhaps a bit quiet, compared to the headphone output on my laptop)
• Music plays fine from the CD input from my laptop.
• Playing a source from the master system also does not output any signal to my minidisc.
• I cannot test with a beocord in the link room because I do not have one that is working.

I can of course directly link my laptop to the minidisc's input, but it has become a quest to make it work, because I have the feeling it should be possible if I only know how to "open" the tape-out in the link room. I have a master control panel 5500 in the study to switch on the system, but I have also beolink 1000 around if needed. I tried many key combinations already to no avail.

Anyone ever tried recording in a link room with a non-datalink tape recorder or has a better understanding of getting the output to work?

Thank you in advance!

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MJBeo replied on Sat, Jun 10 2017 7:52 PM

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Anyone? Perhaps some experience with using an old tape deck (pre-datalink) on a datalink system or in a link room?

Thanks!

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MJBeo replied on Sat, Jun 10 2017 10:45 PM

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Sorry, I solved it already: the wiring of the 5pin DIN to 4 Phono plugs was different that I expected, and so I was playing through the output leads all this time (hence the low output volume from the MD). I started swapping cables and adapters systematically until I knew how it had to be done. Now I can just record whatever is playing in my link room or in my main system, which is pretty neat.

Warning for those who ever want to use this (although I doubt it): do not select aux + 6 in link room if you are recording or your recorder is paused, because you will hear a nasty buzz sound being amplified over and over again. I think my recorder has protection, but just to be safe: don't select that channel as "source", any other source is fine.