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Hello-
I'm brand new to B&O products, so please forgive the dumb questions.
I have just moved into a new place that has B&O speakers wired into the celings. There are altogether 3 rooms (one livingroom/diningroom downstairs and 2 separate bedrooms upstairs). The bedrooms upstairs each have their own IRs in the walls. The whole set-up appears to use two amps - passive link for downstairs and MCL2P for the upstairs bedrooms (the amps are both downstairs).
The question I have is as follows - if I get a BS9000 and link it via powerlink to the passive link amp that drives the downstairs speakers and via masterlink to the MCL2P that drives the upstairs bedrooms, will it work? Will I be able to control it via remotes downstairs and each of the bedrooms?
Thanks in advance!
Powerlink only transmit speaker sound (and in some cases display data). For link and IR-link you need to use masterlink. Both Beolink passive and MCL2P have Masterlink. I think that is what you mean also. So, if you mean masterlink, then yes you can use the IR-receivers to use the system. Welcome here by the way!
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Thanks for the quick response, Michael!
Yes, I think that's what I am planning to do - use masterlink for the MCL2P (actually ML/MCL Converter, now that I look at it closely) so that I can use the remotes upstairs through IRs, and use powerlink for the downstairs speakers where I can control BS9000 directly (so I only need the sound transmitted downstairs). Sounds like this should work. Thanks, again for your response.
No problem, good luck!
Michael: Powerlink only transmit speaker sound (and in some cases display data). For link and IR-link you need to use masterlink. Both Beolink passive and MCL2P have Masterlink. I think that is what you mean also. So, if you mean masterlink, then yes you can use the IR-receivers to use the system.
Powerlink only transmit speaker sound (and in some cases display data). For link and IR-link you need to use masterlink. Both Beolink passive and MCL2P have Masterlink. I think that is what you mean also. So, if you mean masterlink, then yes you can use the IR-receivers to use the system.
I was thinking about this earlier in the week when trying to answer one of ciotera's other posts. Powerlink DOES transmit data in the same way that masterlink does (that's what pins 6 and 7 are for!).
Just to prove this to myself, I rigged up a spare passive to supply my MCL system, I simply connected it to my BC9500 with a fully wired powerlink and had full control of the BC9500 from the link rooms, including 2 way IR.
Guy: Michael: Powerlink only transmit speaker sound (and in some cases display data). For link and IR-link you need to use masterlink. Both Beolink passive and MCL2P have Masterlink. I think that is what you mean also. So, if you mean masterlink, then yes you can use the IR-receivers to use the system. I was thinking about this earlier in the week when trying to answer one of ciotera's other posts. Powerlink DOES transmit data in the same way that masterlink does (that's what pins 6 and 7 are for!). Just to prove this to myself, I rigged up a spare passive to supply my MCL system, I simply connected it to my BC9500 with a fully wired powerlink and had full control of the BC9500 from the link rooms, including 2 way IR.
That is interesting and nice, I did not know that! Newer Powerlink cables dont have those features and I am not sure if the BS9000 would communicate on those pins. I have a pair of Penta speakers connected to a BS9000 and it does at least send display data to them!
Good point about BS9000 - I don't have anything that modern so I wouldn't know! I assume that the 'safe' option would be to use ML to such devices.