Cat6A - ML and NL - BS5 + BS9000 Mk3 + BS3200 + BS Moment + Beovision Avant NL + Beovision 7

Hi

I am rewiring the whole house with Cat6A which will come back to a server room.

I understand the ends of the cables can be terminated with the Masterlink connector for the older products and the RJ45 connector on the other end (server room) which can then plug into the B&O RJ45 Masterlink Module with 6 slots.

If I need more Masterlink slots in the RJ45 Module, I can buy another Module and connect both Modules together with a short Cat6A cable with RJ45 on both ends? Can someone please confirm this theory.

I plan to connect the BS5 + BS9000 Mk3 + Beovision 7 + BS3200 into the RJ45 Masterlink Module and may also have future ML audio products.

The BS5 will then have a LAN cable going to the switch and a Masterlink cable going to RJ45 Masterlink Module.

I will then plug the NL/ML Converter into the RJ45 Masterlink Module and also my switch for the home LAN. This should in theory be complete? I will then need to login into the NL/ML Converter and change settings. Please confirm this.

Would the CD of the 3200 clash with CD of BS9000 in the Masterlink? I want to keep the BS3200 in the Masterlink if I am able to use the CD MEM function of the BS3200. I have music ripped and saved in the hard disc of the BS3200.

I have a NAS with a lot of music which is streamed via DLNA to the BS5 and Beosound Moment and other NL products at home.

If I pressed N.MUSIC on the BS9000, would the music play from the NAS or the BS5 Internal hard disc?

Room 1: Beovison Avant + BS Moment + Beolab 6000 + Beolab 3 + Beolab 2

Room 2: Beovision 7 + Beolab 3

Room 3: BS3200 + Penta + Beolab 3

Room 4: BS9000 + Beolab 1

Room 5: BS5 + Beolab 6000 + Beolab 2

Any further advice and help is much appreciated.

Thank you

 

 

Kiran:

I am rewiring the whole house with Cat6A which will come back to a server room.

You can use cat6a for masterlink as long as it is the s/ftp variety (unshielded cat cable won't work).

Kiran:

I understand the ends of the cables can be terminated with the Masterlink connector for the older products and the RJ45 connector on the other end (server room) which can then plug into the B&O RJ45 Masterlink Module with 6 slots.

I would recommend terminating all the cables into shielded RJ45 faceplates in each of the rooms, and into a patch panel in the server room. You can then use RJ45 to masterlink cables to attach the products to the wall outlets, and shielded patch cables between the relevant ports of the patch panel and the ports of the Masterlink module.

If I need more Masterlink slots in the RJ45 Module, I can buy another Module and connect both Modules together with a short Cat6A cable with RJ45 on both ends? Can someone please confirm this theory.

Yep, you can link together multiple modules.

Kiran:

I plan to connect the BS5 + BS9000 Mk3 + Beovision 7 + BS3200 into the RJ45 Masterlink Module and may also have future ML audio products.

The BS5 will then have a LAN cable going to the switch and a Masterlink cable going to RJ45 Masterlink Module.

I will then plug the NL/ML Converter into the RJ45 Masterlink Module and also my switch for the home LAN. This should in theory be complete? I will then need to login into the NL/ML Converter and change settings. Please confirm this.

That's correct, bear in mind though that there can only be one Audio Master (either the BS9000 or the BS3200), one Video Master (the BV7) and one Source Centre (the BS5) in a masterlink network, everything else will have to be configured as a link room product and will not be able to distribute its sources.

Also, if you want to be able to introduce NL sources into your masterlink network, the converter will need to take on one of these 'master' roles instead of one of the products above.

Kiran:

Would the CD of the 3200 clash with CD of BS9000 in the Masterlink? I want to keep the BS3200 in the Masterlink if I am able to use the CD MEM function of the BS3200. I have music ripped and saved in the hard disc of the BS3200.

One of them would need to be configured as a link room product, and would then not be able to distribute it's sources to other rooms (either ML or NL).

Kiran:

I have a NAS with a lot of music which is streamed via DLNA to the BS5 and Beosound Moment and other NL products at home.

If I pressed N.MUSIC on the BS9000, would the music play from the NAS or the BS5 Internal hard disc?

This depends on how you configure your BS5.

Hope this helps.

Martin.

 

Thank you so much Martin for the advice.

I will however be using a 23 awg 6A 600mhz U/FTP - each twisted pair is foiled and then an overall foil around all 4 pairs with a drain wire also for ground.

I cannot use the S/FTP. I may have well then just used the Cat7. It's just way too thick and I will have 120 cables coming back to the server room which I do not have space for.

I will in the next few days put a shielded keystone jack on either end of my cable stretching 30 metres.

I will then Masterlink the Beosound 5 and Beosound 9000 via this cable using 2x RJ45 to Masterlink cables. This will surely work for the data side; even if the powerlink distribution doesn't work properly which I can sacrifice. All it means is I will have to connect the speakers directly to the units in the rooms.

Will update on how this goes 👍🏻

Kiran:

I will however be using a 23 awg 6A 600mhz U/FTP - each twisted pair is foiled and then an overall foil around all 4 pairs with a drain wire also for ground.

U/FTP is foil around each pair but no overall shield, the cable you describe (foil around each pair plus overall foil shield) should be designated F/FTP, but either way, with the individual pairs shielded and a drain wire to keep the impedance down to a reasonable level, you should be fine. Just try to keep the data runs well segregated from mains cable runs, and where they do have to cross, try to keep them at 90 degrees to each other.

Martin.

Yes you are right! The cable is F/FTP.

Thank you for all the clarification.

I knew the data side of the Masterlink would work flawlessly like this (through cat6a). I didn't know what to expect about the Powerlink side of things and if there would be any "noise" but your answer makes sense.

👍🏻👍🏻