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I have acquired many different B&O products over my lifetime... Now I want to interface my investment with other more advance products like Elan controllers and Sonos. Questions:
1) what is the difference between pin 1 (grey) and pin 4 (yellow) on the PowerLink connections. In what cases do I provide a trigger voltage to either pin 1 or pin 4?
2) How do I interface a BeoLab 2000 (masterlink) to other non B&O products? I have two converters (masterlink to powerlink) but not sure what they do... I don't want to use a B&O IR connection to control the converter. I tried to connect a RCA to powerlink to converter to masterlink to Beo 2000 without success.
Cheers,
Rick
Recently did a remodel for a client using ElanG! with Autonomics server as the primary music source.
He had a few pairs of existing BeoLab 4000s and passive speakers. Because of the long cable runs we ran new Cat7 cable to the existing 4000s then used RJ45 to phono/pl adapters from sounds heavenly (who else!!).
Then we connected the 4000s to the Elan M86A Integrated Multi-Room Audio Controller variable line level out puts worked a treat
Sonos would work in the same way.
With regards to the Beolab 2000, AFAIK it must "see" a connected ML master of some description for it to function. I feel sure the PCB and soldering iron maestros on this forum may have found other solutions.
Hi Rick,
Pin 1 of the Powerlink plug is for the old systems defined as Powerlink ON/-OFF and PIN 4 is defined as Powerlink -MUTE. The newer Beolas only use PIN4 as Powerlink ON/-OFF. So using PIN4 should work most time.
The Beolab 2000 is only a BeoLink speaker who needs a Audio Or Video Master to supply the control and audio signal. Yo can use a beolink converter 1611 connected to the masterlink and further to the BeLab 2000. Your Audio Signal ist then feed to the AUX Link connection of the Beolink converter. Using this wiring you can inject Audio signals into the masterlink network but the convertor has to be a type 1611. The beolab 2000 can be switch on by remote or at the local control buttons, just select Radio, Tape or CD. All three just instruct the 'Master' (beolink convertor) to send the audio signal to the masterlink network. The volume will be controlled with the wheel or by the remote.
Ralph-Marcus
Thank you!
I have a 1638 converter... no Aux. Only a PL, PC, and a IR connection. It seems I can inject an audio signal into the PL and it will be sent out over the MasterLink to the BeoLab 2000? Someone else, mentioned I could use the PC port?
This seems to be a 1636 Beolink active with the PC Input. Unfortunately the PC input will not be routed to masterlink but only to the PL (powerlink) for the local active speakers.
What you need is a Beolink 1611 (or maybe a 1612 , but not quite sure) converter. This converter can route a audio signal from AUX to masterlink (and vice versa).
One issue that I had before with the Powerlink mute function was that I used a external trigger to turn off / on the B&O "Pencil" speakers with a direct RCA going to the receiver. When the receiver was turned off, the B&O speakers started to hummm with 60hz, noise. The only solution was to leave the receiver on in a different mode to keep the speakers quiet. Does pin 1 or pin 4 make a difference in this case?