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Hi all,
I have been a longtime fan of the Beolink 7000 remote control since I first saw it at Bjorn's Audio Video in Texas as a young kid. I finally got around to getting my hands on one in mint shape from Ebay, and everything seemed to work fine. However as I was literally building my B and O system AROUND this remote (crazy as that sounds), it was a while before I got a Beosystem 2500 that I figured would be compatible.
Now, here's the question. When I first started operating the 2500 I had some link and comms for a while and then I pressed something and started getting NO CONTACT every single time. The remote still operated everything one way, but quit working 2 way. Fine, capacitors are dead I thought, even though I thought it strange that it worked for a little bit and just randomly died in my hands after 20 years.
Well, fast forward a couple of days and I got the seller to agree to take it back. However tonight I once again tried the "delete/re-add RADIO" trick on the 7000 but this time with the BeoCenter OFF while I was doing it. Voila... now it's communicating 2 way again in MOST circumstances. However I can reliably make it go back to NO CONTACT every single time I go to the PROGRAM menu and exit back out of it, or if I let the remote go to sleep and press the panel to turn it back on. If I then press "A.AUX" (the only source I really use) or CD it will start to two way communicate again just fine. Heck, I even found out that via the remote the BeoSystem has a LOUDNESS function which really made it sound nice.
So my question is this... Is this still a symptom of bad capacitors (the Beolink can almost be in a whole other room on the same floor and still receive its two way signal) or is it just that the 2500 wasn't really intended for use with the 7000 and has some "quirks"?
Trying to figure this out before I send a perfectly functional 7000 (type 1542, the "bad" ones apparently) back to the seller.
Thanks!
EDIT: New info I've found out... The "NO CONTACT" message ONLY appears when going back to "A.AUX". If the BeoCenter is in CD or Radio mode, information is returned to the remote. When it is in A.AUX mode I get "NO CONTACT" every single time the BeoLink wakes up or returns from another programming duty. I'm beginning to think this is an inherent quirk in the fact that the BeoCenter must not report any data when its in A.AUX. Strange, as it should at least report the volume, which it DOES if I MANUALLY press "A.AUX" on the BeoLink to tell it the BeoCenter is in A.AUX. Another quirk... when switching from A.AUX to either of the other two sources, I temporarily get "OPERATION CONFLICT" on the main display. So it's either a quirk, or a software version mismatch. Curiously, both devices are similar in age to the best of my knowledge, though the remote's software is 2.1.